The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II
by WOUK, Herman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hard Cover. Herman Wouk's novel is the gripping story a U.S. Navy ship's captain whose irrational leadership leads to a mutiny, and a resulting court martial. "The Caine Mutiny" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. It was also rendered into a play by Mr. Wouk, and into a memorable movie starring Humphrey Bogart. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with titling and anchor decoration in silver to spine; map of the Pacific and the Caine's cruise route to endpapers. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy, though with prior owner's signature to half title page and minor discoloration to cloth.; 41072; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 498 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71496
- Title
- The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II
- Author
- WOUK, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- WORLD, WAR, TWO
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize;
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