East of Eden New and Sealed a couple of corners very

a couple of corners very lightly bumped to rear

only removed from its wrapping paper for condition checking and photographing

Carlo Collodi

[1–3] 4–439 [440–442]: [9] leaves of colour plates (facing pp

Very Scarce

East of Eden New and Sealed a couple of corners verySTEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition of Steinbeck's magnum opus. First trade edition, first state: 1952. 110,000 copies were published in September 1952 at $4. 50. Page 281, line 38 "bite" for "bight", as only contained in the true first state (Goldstone and Payne, A32, p. 74). Steinbeck regarded 'East of Eden' as his greatest novel and noted, "it has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft