8vo, lime green cloth, blue and red titles, 602pp. First edition, second printing. Copyright statement prints ’Second printing before publication’, H. Wolff listed as printer. Second state dust jacket with reviews and no author photo to rear panel, price of 4.50 to front flap. Pg. 281 correctly states ‘bight’ instead of ‘bite.’ Dust jacket age toned with minor edge wear to panels. Corners minimally bumped, toning and offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A rather scarce pre-publication printing of Steinbeck’s masterpiece, a modern day retelling of Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley of California. A very good copy in mylar.