Notes On The First Edition
East of Eden was first published by Viking Press on September 1952. The first edition had two print runs: 1,500 copies were signed by Steinbeck, the second run was of unsigned copies. In both print runs, there is a spelling mistake on page 281, line 38: "I remember holding the bite of a line while Tom drove pegs and braided a splice." The word bite was mistakenly changed from the original word bight during proofreading.
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