Don’t Stop the Carnival.

WOUK, Herman.

Item Number: 123687

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965.

First edition of Wouk’s classic comedy. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the day of publication to author Walter Kaufmann and his wife Hazel, “For Walter and Hazel who will have the curious delusion that they have been there before- Affectionately Herman Wouk St Thomas- Washington 5 March 1965 Publication Day.” Walter Kaufmann was a philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. Fine in a near fine dust jacket light wear. Jacket painting by Janet Gasson. Jacket design by Owen Scott. A nice association.

Don’t Stop the Carnival is a comedy about escaping middle-age crisis to the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character. The book is said to be loosely based on Herman Wouk's experiences in managing an actual hotel, in the early 1960s in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.The novel was turned into a musical by Jimmy Buffett in 1997.