Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

by John Steinbeck

$750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Narrow 4to, 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers, lettered in black, with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered 11 in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers, box spotted, else very good. ß Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden, in the form of letters to his friend and publisher, Pat Covici. The book was published posthumously in an edition of 600 copies. John

• Binding: Wrappers

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