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“Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time": First Edition of The Caine Mutiny; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Herman Wouk
WOUK, Herman .
The Caine Mutiny.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147484
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First Edition of Messengers of God; Inscribed by Elie Wiesel to Author Herman Wouk
WIESEL, Elie. [Herman Wouk].
Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends.
New York: Random House, 1976.
First edition of this collection of portraits exploring the lives of key biblical figures. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Herman Wouk - in friendship, Marion and Elie Wiesel May 9, 1976." Herman Wouk was a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work brought the experience of American Jewish life to a mass readership with a seriousness and scope that few of his contemporaries matched. The recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny (1951), Wouk went on to produce some of the most widely read American novels of the postwar era — among them Marjorie Morningstar (1955), one of the first million-selling novels centered on Jewish-American life, and the sweeping two-volume Second World War epic comprising The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978), which together constitute one of the most ambitious fictional treatments of the war and the Holocaust produced in the English language. Elie Wiesel and Wouk were genuine friends and mutual admirers, united by their shared commitment to Jewish memory, Holocaust remembrance, and the survival of Jewish civilization. Wiesel was counted among Wouk's friends...
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 151774
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“Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time": Signed Limited First Edition of The Caine Mutiny
WOUK, Herman .
The Caine Mutiny.
Franklin, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977.
Signed limited first edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon bound in. Signed by Herman Wouk. Illustrated by George H. Jones. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146370
