The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - 1951

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Chipping to top and bottom of spine and corners of same. Minor chipping to all outside corners.Several nicks/scratches to laminate panels, front and back, especially in folds and hinges. Several small closed tears to top edges of panels. Small moisture stain at bottom of spine. Price clipped. Open/closed tears mended on reverse with archival tape. In first 2 pics, paper insert placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Very good condition. Minor wear to crown and foot of spine. Minor scuffs to all outside corners. Very small bump to bottom edge, both boards. BOOK: Very good condition. Small ink stamp to top of front pastedown. Please inspect photos and read description carefully for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Herman Wouk's best selling novel of World War II, The Caine Mutiny, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the basis for the 1954 film of the same name featuring Humphrey Bogart. This copy is a stated 1st trade edition, 1st printing published by Doubleday & Co. in 1951. The second state dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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"When Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg is given the captaincy of the destroyer-minesweeper USS Caine, Ensign Willie Keith believes that the tough Naval Academy graduate will bring much needed discipline to the Caine's rough crew.

But Queeg soon reveals himself to be a cowardly, paranoid man. When his actions begin to endanger not just the crew but the war effort itself, Keith finds himself faced with a terrible choice: obey Queeg, and risk the lives of his shipmates and allies - or mutiny.

Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life and mutiny on a Navy warship in the Pacific theatre 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 favourite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic."

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Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages.

The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Hodder & Stoughton publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.
[Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny. United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.]