East of Eden. by Steinbeck, John

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine.

NY, Viking, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Third and last of his play/novelette experiments and easily the least accomplished and least understood, Steinbeck provides his own introduction to this play in story form, Goldstone & Payne A29a, Morrow 206. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket.

Aptos, Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. One of only 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, text is by James D. Hart with a letter from Steinbeck used as frontispiece, it also includes Steinbeck's "translation" of a poem from the Ukranian into a language he created, Goldstone & Payne A45a, Morrow 279, this copy with the very white wrappers. Fine.

London, World Books, 1940, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The jacket carries photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film version in a circular or horseshow fashion, among those pictured are Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, a very scarce book, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne A12k (cited via the Preston Beyer copy), not recorded by Morrow. Very good.

Paris, Editions Rombaldi, n .d. (1963), first edition thus.. This hardcover was issued without a dust jacket, it is a special French commemoratiive edition of Tortilla Flat translated by Brigitte V. Barbey, issued in conjunction with Steinbeck's having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rombaldi would annually print such a Nobel laureate-related work, the book includes two speeches delivered at Steinbeck's Nobel ceremonies as well as an introduction by Dr. Kjell Stromberg, followed by the text for Tortilla Flat and a Steinbeck bibliography, illustrated on the front cover in color by Picasso, also illustrated with a woodcut illustration of Steinbeck by Michel Cauvet, it also includes eight full-page color illustrations by Fontanarosa as well as an extra suite of eight full-page color lithographs bound in the rear, see Goldstone & Payne D182, this was the Jacob J. Foster copy. Fine.

Bradenton, Opuscula Press, 1986, first edition.. This slim hardcover bound with dark brown buckram spine, brown boards, and tan title label was issued without dust jacket, it is the first separate printing of this article which first appeared in the June 1955 issue of "Holiday," includes frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck by Paul Farber, this is No. 50 of 300 numbered copies, although not called for, this copy Inscribed by the book's publisher, Robert F. Hanson, to this bookseller, laid in loosely is a lengthy typed letter signed from Hanson. Fine, unread.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1972, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is the 12th Travis McGee mystery and the first American hardcover, it carries the proper $5.50 dust jacket price and the 372 code at the top of the front jacket flap, this was Adrian Goldstone's copy bearing his bookplate, Goldstone was perhaps the most noted collector of mystery/detective novels and his John Steinbeck collection was the basis for the Goldstone & Payne bibliography of Steinbeck. Very good in a fine dust jacket.

NY, Viking, 1961, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This was his last novel, this morality tale is generally credited as securing him the Nobel Prize for Literature, jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated the dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Long Valley and The Grapes of Wrath, Goldstone & Payne A38b, Morrow 252. Nearly fine.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, first printing.. Original green cloth with front decorated in orange and black with title and author in gilt, Smith 11, Keating 62, bookplate on front pastedown from the A. M. McGregor Home, Tootier McGregor established the A. M. McGregory Home in 1904 in East Cleveland, OH to honor her late husband, Ambrose, a close associate of John D. Rockefeller. Very good plus.