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Very Good. Facsimile of the original 1951 Doubleday hard cover with dust jacket and slipcase-slipcase is torn at back end as if book was too big for case-otherwise minor staining on slipcase-very slight staining to page edge-otherwise a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket-enjoy.
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Very Good. No Dj. pp. 544, 4 raised bands, AEG, satin ribbon, silk endpapers, browngilt-embossed full leather. "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… 8vo. Signed by Author.
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Fine. No dust jacket. xii, 498 p.; 22 cm. Doubleday 1951 First edition. Later Printing Hard cover Fine Condition Book/ No dust jacket. xii, 498 p.; 22 cm. This very nice & desirable volume is rare and very difficult to obtain in this nice of a condition. It is a FIRST EDITION, later printing copy of "THE CAINE MUTINY" Herman Wouk's Best book and Most Coveted of all His work. A near FINE original blue hard board copy with PERFECT silver titling and anchor spine design. Book & Spine Edges are rubbed, corners are bumped. Stain/Plastic Wood over the MUT in Mutiny on the spine. A red "15" is written on the front edge papers. Book is clean & un-marked. Book chapter Titles in Blue Ink. Every page whole, tight, clean & unmarked. Opening Edge pages with rough uneven original trim cut. Pictorial End Papers describe the Cruise of the Caine under Captain Queeg from September 1943 thru December 1944. This very nice & desirable volume is rare and very difficult to obtain in this nice condition. AB58 Considered by many as the first serious fiction about World War II. The novel commences as the battle-scarred tramp Caine pulls out of San Francisco (Sept. 1943) and culminates with the typhoon and mutiny off the Philippines (Dec. 1944) which leads to a court-marshall. Captain Queeg is a poor leader. The issue, then, is one of leadershed competency. It is about the intellectual and moral dilemna faced by men the armed services where the corner stone is discipline and obedience, and where thinking and judgement is reserved for the commanding chief. The story is not new and remains a great problem for the armed services drawn from an educated, free country. but in the deft hands of Herman Wouk a classic is born. We live with the men in confined quarters for fifteen months; we are a part of the growing tensions, find relief in the humor, know the rath of typhoons, and have a...
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Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Chipping on spine crown and heel. Small closed tears on top and bottom front and rear panels and top rear flap. Toning on spine.
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As New. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-498 pages. --Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. --with a bonus offer--;
Yeah, this is a good one. The movie is good, but the book is better, as it covers areas that are not in the movie, and 'fill in the blanks' that are missing.
Aliscafi
Aug 14, 2008
Fifty years on, the Caine Mutiny is still the one. I read it again a month ago and remembered it as yesterday. Do yourself a great favor, read the Caine Mutiny.