Lot 212 , Steinbeck, John. East of Eden, The Pearl & The Short Reign of Pippin IV. First editions, 1947-57. (3)

° Steinbeck, John. East of Eden, The Pearl & The Short Reign of Pippin IV. First editions, 1947-57. (3) East of Eden, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1952, first UK edition, 8vo, pp. 525, green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original unclipped dust jacket retaining the 15s net price; The Pearl, New York: The Viking Press, 1947, first edition, pp. 122, illustrated, publisher’s cloth with original unclipped dust jacket; The Short Reign of Pippin IV, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1957, first UK edition, pp. 164, blue cloth, with original unclipped dust jacket retaining the 12s 6d price.
£80-120

Condition:
Cloths with minor wear to extremities; contents generally clean, with offsetting to endpapers of The Pearl and ink inscription to front free endpaper of Pippin IV. Dust jackets with minor wear, nicks and creasing to extremities; East of Eden with tears and small tape repairs to interior of dust jacket at head of spine.