Description: The Caine MutinyWOUK, Herman Publisher: DoubledayLocation: Garden City, NYDate: 1951Binding: Octavo, custom full bound leather boards with title stamped in gilt on spine.Edition: FIRST EDITIONPrinting: 1st Printing Description:SIGNED & INSCRIBED. First Edition, First Printing of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Presenting with it's incredibly scarce 1st Impression Dust Jacket incorrectly identifying the Author's first book on the rear panel as "The City Boy," later corrected to "City Boy." An increasingly hard to find First Impression of this important novel, "[a] riveting exploration of power, personal freedom and responsibility. Signed and inscribed on the title page, "For my good friend and / doctor, Don Wasserman, / this "breakthrough" book / of mine, inscribed with the / highest regard - / Herman Wouk / 1 Feb 94." A very nice and special association copy. Awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and later adapted int the classic 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, Wouk's novel "stands somewhere between Norman Mailer's Naked and the Dead and James Jones' From Here to Eternity… No writer has worked harder at the amassing of the historical facts about WWII… Caine Mutiny remains Wouk's best book" (Burgess, 99 Novels, 56). In recognition for his work and literary contributions, the decade before his death, the Library of Congress awarded Wouk its first lifetime achievement award for fiction. Condition:SIGNED & INSCRIBED. Binding tight with the slightest slant. Nearly unremarkable rubbing to foot of spine and smudge to top text-block; otherwise, externally clean. Internally clean and unmarked. Signed and inscribed on the title page, "For my good friend and / doctor, Don Wasserman, / this "breakthrough" book / of mine, inscribed with the / highest regard - / Herman Wouk / 1 Feb 94." Dust Jacket presents very well with brightly colored front and rear panels. Edges clean with some moderate creases to front near top fore-edge corner, to fore-edges, to hinges, and to bottom near hinge. Spine lightly faded with a few spots near rear hinge. Rear panel mostly clean with some light rubbing, a couple scratches and creases, and a mild toning. Very light chipping to corners with a bit of loss to bottom front and top. Same to head and foot of spine; more so to foot with some tiny closed tears and about one-quarter inch loss to bottom rear hinge. Flap edges toned. Original price of $3.95 not clipped. A very nice and special association copy presenting in it's original First Impression dust jacket. A Classic:A classic work considered by many to be amongst the best, including The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, A Death in the Family by James Agee, The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Falconer by John Cheever, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Others include titles such as, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, I, Claudius by Robert Graves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Light in August by William Faulkner, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Loving by Henry Green, Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Money by Martin Amis, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, Native Son by Richard Wright, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Even further, those recognize as the best of the best include The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, Possession by A.S. Byatt, The Power and the Glory by Graham Green, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Rabbit, Run by John Updike, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, The Recognitions by William Gaddis, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Sportswriter by Richard Ford, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Under the Net by Iris Murdoch, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, White Noise by Don DeLillo, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
Price: 1945 USD
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Doubleday
Modified Item: Yes
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1951
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Printing, 1st Issue Dust Jacket, First Issue Dust Jacket, The City Boy, War and Remembrance, First Edition, First Printing, Signed, Association Copy, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed
Region: North America
Author: Herman Wouk
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Novels
