Books

First edition/first printing. Price of $4.50 NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with wear to the edges; chips taken and soiling; pages dusty with age toning and staining to the end pages. 1st State with "bite" for bight on Line 38 of Page 281; no reviews on the rear panel of the DJ and author's photo on the rear DJ; no subsequent printings listed on the copyright page with "Printed in U.S.A. by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co." listed.

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.