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East of Eden - UK 1stEast of Eden by John Steinbeck. First edition (1952). First impression. Medium format hardback in very good+ condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has wear to extremities along with some minor loss. now in removable protective sleeve. About East of Eden 'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, also often brutal novel,

and dream associations

Some minor bumping to board corners

simple slow portraiture of the kinds of people who were missed by more generic image making

as with the images of a man stepping from a tenement bath or the young couple watching distant fireworks from their roof

the re-issue features 320 color and black and white pages

This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water

Shortlisted for The 2018 PhotoBook Awards 'PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR' by Aperture foundation and Paris Photo

the series toys with the question regarding the necessity of traveling to a place that has been photographed innumerable times

How We See by Laurie Simmons

Constructed around this text

and makes use of both traditional documentary techniques and a more lateral and experimental approach befitting the expanded conventions of the ‘new documentary’ movement

The book also comes with a dust jacket

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