The Caine Mutiny.
"This life is slow suicide, unless you read": First Edition of The Caine Mutiny; Signed by Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny.
WOUK, Herman.
Item Number: 2874
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. very good in a very good dust jacket with “City Boy” on the back panel.
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.
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