East of Eden New and Sealed Selected and introduced by Tennyson

Selected and introduced by Tennyson scholar John D

[1–3] 4–439 [440–442]: [9] leaves of colour plates (facing pp

Printed on Abbey Pure paper at Memminger MedienCentrum and quarter-bound by Josef Spinner Grossbuchbinderei in quarter dark-red buckram

based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius

Publisher's blue cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt

East of Eden New and Sealed Selected and introduced by TennysonSTEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition of Steinbeck's magnum opus. First trade edition, first state: 1952. 110,000 copies were published in September 1952 at $4. 50. Page 281, line 38 "bite" for "bight", as only contained in the true first state (Goldstone and Payne, A32, p. 74). Steinbeck regarded 'East of Eden' as his greatest novel and noted, "it has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft