caine mutiny novel world de wouk herman smith lawrence beall (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Special Edition. Deluxe edition (1st illustrated edition). Color plates & map endpapers. Condition: in very good condition in heavily chipped dust jacket. 494 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Special Edition. "First illustrated Edition" stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in very good plus, if not near fine dust jacket (T.C.M. Price, $6.00). Dust jacket has a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine and associated 2.5 inch hairline crease; a 1 inch by 1/8 inch chip to bottom edge of front panel; a 1.25 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel along fore-edge fold; a 1 inch by 1/2 inch triangular chip to bottom edge of rear panel; wear to 1/8 inch of spine head and additional minor, if not trivial wear to edges, corners and extremities. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Special bookseller edition with facsimiles of two letters bound in from Doubleday Sales Manager Fred Murray to the author, and the author's reply. Signed by author on first blank page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First, thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York. 1951. Illustrated with color plates. Xiv, 494 pgs. Signed by Herman Wouk on the FFEP. Laid in Doubleday Christmas card present. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.