East of Eden by Steinbeck, John - 1952

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with navy lettering. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with dark blue titles, blocked in brown on the spine. Very Good with a few small stains to cloth, small dampstain to fore edge, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, pencil lines there as well. In a Good dust jacket with Steinbeck's portrait on the rear panel; chipping and wear along edges with small areas of loss, soiled, a few faint chicken tracks to front panel, tape stains and a few pieces of archival mending tissue to verso, a few small stains mostly visible on verso, unclipped ($4.50). A novel of the Salinas Valley in California.