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Signed limited edition, one of 1,500 copies, signed by the author. Steinbeck regarded this work as his greatest novel and noted "it has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years". A film adaptation starring James Dean was released in 1955. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers with single rule in gilt, foliage dentelles in gilt, green marbled endpaper, all edges gilt. A fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A32(a).

East of Eden is a novel by American author John Steinbeck. Published in September 1952, it is a saga telling the story of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—with a particular focus on the life of Adam Trask, his twin sons Caleb and Aron, and their complex relationship with each other and their father. The novel explores themes of depravity, beneficence, love, and redemption, and it vividly captures the rural Salinas Valley in California at the turn of the 20th century. Steinbeck considered 'East of Eden' to be his magnum opus.