The Caine Mutiny.

WOUK, Herman.

Item Number: 3047

Garden City: Doubleday, 1951.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket that shows very light wear (“The City Boy” on the back panel jacket as opposed to the later issue “City Boy”). A very bright copy, uncommon in this condition and signed.

The Caine Mutiny was published in March, 1951 and word of mouth quickly spread and a second printing was issued in April 1951, and four more printings in June alone. By September 1951, The Caine Mutiny had become the best-selling novel in the country. The book remained on the best-seller list for two and a half years, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. The Caine Mutiny was both a Broadway play and a Hollywood film starring Humphrey Bogart in an unforgettable performance as Captain Queeg.