East of Eden by Steinbeck, John - 1952

New York: Viking, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An exceptional copy of the first printing in original jacket of this great American novel. A near fine copy. The jacket is bright and entirely unfaded, the cloth has only one small area of fading to upper front board. The jacket has slight edge and suface wear, the cloth has very faint traces of wear, and the top edge of text has slight spotting. [6], 602 pages. Goldstone & Payne A32b; first state of the trade issue, with the top edges stained yellow and the misprint on page 281 ("bite" for "bight"); first state of the dust jacket (no reviews; unclipped price of $4.50 on jacket front flyleaf). Basis of the 1955 Warner Bros. motion picture, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Raymond Massey and James Dean. "First published ... September 1952" (title page verso). Well-preserved and fairly tight copy internally.