The Caine Mutiny

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. The signed, limited edition of The Caine Mutiny, signed by Wouk on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Accompanied by the quite scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations are paintings, done for this edition, by George Jones. Stout octavo, 544 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Rich russet top grain leather binding in Niger Goat texture; gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided; All Edges Gilt; black moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 70-pound Medium Publisher's White "1854" book paper; text set in Aster typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from Herman Wouk" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece. This pamphlet does have a light stain on the front cover and a pencil mark on the rear cover. Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln3