East of Eden (with dust jacket)

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very rare, bona fide 1952 The Viking Press 1st Edition/1st Printing, 1st Point: The copyright page designation: "First published by the VIking Press in September 1952," 2nd Point: the classic spelling error on Page 281, Line 38 ("bite" instead of "bight") which was corrected by the 2nd Printing. CONDITION: Hardback: In Very Good condition with non-faded bright green boards. The spine has black lettering on a crimson background surrounded by a black border. There is minor wear along the top and bottom spine edges and along the top and bottom edges. Text and paper: very clean with no folds, bends or ripples; there are two small circular losses of text due to a seeming glue accident on 600, line 8 and 601 lines 5-8. Lost text is supplemented by the book mender. On the first empty front paper in the lower right corner is the stamp ROYAL Book Service (3/4" x 1 1/4"). On the facing empty page in the upper middle is a 1/4" x 2" stamp that states 25¢ FOR FIRST THREE DAYS 5¢ PER DAY OVERTIME Dust Jacket: the original California Valley painting with varied professionally repaired tears. A 3" by 3/4" white residue on the front of the DJ remains from a sticker that also advertised the above mentioned book loaner. An historic literary achievement and a rare well preserved 1st edition, 1st printing. Adapted into the classic 1955 Elia Kazan film with the screenplay by Paul Osburn and starring James Dean as Cal, Raymond Massey as Adam, Julie Harris as Abra, and Burl Ives as Sam. Remade as a 1981 Harvey Hart miniseries, penned by Richard Alan Shapiro, with an amazing cast of Timothy Bottoms, Sam Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Soon-Tek Oh, Karen Allen, Warren Oates, Howard Duff, Anne Baxter, Lloyd Bridges, and M. Emmet Walsh.