Wouk The Caine Mutiny

WOUK, HERMAN. THE CAINE MUTINY, A NOVEL OF WORLD WAR II. Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1977.
This book is unread. Beautiful light brown high grade leather, with gilt stamped decorations to boards and spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt title. Navy blue silk moire end papers and attached book mark. All gilt edges. Previous owners color book plate tipped to paste down, and blind stamp to lower edge of title page. Beautiful copy. Please clip for image. Limited Edition, Signed. 544 pp., 4m 4 to. 9 3/4 by 6, 2 inches in depth.

Signed, Limited Edition The intense dramatic sea story of a mutiny aboard a United States Navy ship in W.W.II. The story line contains two strands; the build up and tension of the mutiny, to the Court Martial; and the background of Willie Keith, which is dramatized in his growing up and long love affair with a night club singer. The main characters that support the book are Captain Queeg, a neurotic, unstable, petty tyrant; his executive officer, Lieutenant Maryk, and third in command Lieutenant Keefer who sparks the revolt. Made into a movie starring: Humphrey Bogart (as Captain Queeg), Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray and Van Johnson. "This limited edition of The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk has been privately printed, and individually signed by the author." Signed in black felt pen to the blank f.e.p., tissue covering. Included is a "A Special Message to subscribers from Herman Wouk". Illustrated by George H. Jones, double page color frontispiece preceding title page, 11 full page additional illustrations in color. Double page map "The cruise of the Caine under Captain Queeg Sept. 1943 -Dec. 1944". Wouk's third novel published five years after he was discharged from the Navy, after World War II. Leather Bound Near Fine

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Wouk, Herman: Die Caine war ihr Schicksal, engl. Ausgabe&The Caine Mutiny A Novel of World War II, BACK BAY BOOKS, ISBN: 0316955108
The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.

NEUBUCH! 1979. XII, 537 p. w. map. 21 cm

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WOUK,HERMAN: THE CAINE MUTINY, Franklin Center, PA The Franklin Library 1977 ; fester Einband / hard cover; sig.
As New George H. Jones

SIGNED BY AUTHOR "This Limited Edition....has been privately printed and individually signed by the Author."In a fine condition.Gilt decarated leather.. Silk moire endpapers,Full-Leather cover.Four ribs spine.The Cain Mutiny, his third published book, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951. Herman Wouk, born in New York City in 1915, and educated at Columbia College where he was a favorite pupil of the late philosopher and wit Irwin Edman, served four years in the Navy during World War II. He ended up as the executive officer of a destroyer-minesweeper. Prior to composing his Caine Mutiny drama in 1954, Mr. Wouk wrote a provocative melodrama about a scientist-traitor, The Traitor, which had a short run on Broadway in 1949. Signed by Author(s) No Jacket Hardcover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Book

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Wouk, Herman: THE CAINE MUTINY (COLLECTIBLE Book Club Edition) Garden City, NY Doubleday & Co., Inc. Publishers 1951
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This is the highly collectible Book Club Edition of this classic work. The book itself is in very nice condition, showing only slight wear. The dust jacket, unlike so many copies, is in collector's condition; the wonderful dust jacket art still has vibrant colors; it has bit of spotting, discoloration and is rubbed at edges, but overall it is impressive for a cheaply made dust jacket. This is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about World War Two, and the most readable. This is an engrossing, ingenious, and well-written story of ordinary men at sea, placed in an uncommon predicament. Their predicament is simple: their captain is a spectacularly bad leader. This leads to consequences that Wouk develops brilliantly. Wouk's own experience in the US Navy gives this book a gritty authentic feel. The reader really gets a flavor of what it must have been like to be a junior US Naval officer aboard a destroyer-minesweeper. The discussions of officer efficiency reports, the codebreaking duty, casual discipline, and more, all ring true. The real story is the maturation of Willie Keith. At the beginning of the novel he is a spoiled, overprivileged lad living an aimless life. His time in the service, and the unusual predicament in which he finds himself, hardens him into a true fighting-man in a way that has happened to countless thousands of servicemen. Wouk tells this story exceedingly well, in a manner that most readers will be able to easily relate to. I found this novel to be an unusually good read primarily for this reason. Wouk's writing is first-rate, and it is easy to see why this novel appealed to readers of the early 1950s, many of them with fresh memories of World War Two. The flavor of that war lingers in the novel even today, and gives the twenty-first century reader a notion of what those times were like. This is altogether a remarkably good novel Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Very Good Hard Cover in Dust Jacket

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