East Of Eden

by John Steinbeck Publisher : Viking Year : 1952 Edition : First Printing : First Pages : 602 Condition : Very Good Dust Jacket : Yes Signed : Yes Price : Not For Sale

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Viking, 1952. FIRST EDITION, first printing, first state with issue points - "bite" for "bight" Very good overall condition, slight spine fraying. Signed and inscribed on title page, wonderful original facsimile dust jacket. John Steinbeck's East of Eden was published for the first time by Viking Press in September 1952, ten years before the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and has never been out of print since. In November 1952 East of Eden was number one on the fiction best-seller list. The book was written in part in New York City in a four-story brownstone house on Seventy Second Street. Steinbeck had an upstairs room for writing. The Steinbecks rented a Victorian two-story family beach house in Siasconset on Nantucket Island where the writer spent several months working on his novel. Steinbeck kept track of things while writing East of Eden, and this is the record: Eleven years of mental gestation; One year of uninterrupted writing; 25 dozen pencils; Approximately three dozen reams of paper; 350,000 words (before cutting); About 75,000 words in his work-in-progress journal; And a rock-hard callus on the middle finger of the writer's right hand. East of Eden was adapted for television and presented on February 8, 9, and 11 in 1981 by ABC. Signed copy of true first printing with misspelling, the apex of rare book collecting. 602 pages.



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