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First Edition. First Edition, First State (with "bite" for "bight" on page 281, line 38) in First State dust jacket (author's photo not reviews on back panel). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped; spine a little sun darkened; minor biopredation along extrems and to back panel; overall nice appearance in brodart. Softening and slight fraying to spine ends; cloth slightly faded along spine and top edge; bottom back corner slightly bumped; faint browning to textblock edges; internally very clean, binding tight.

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.