THE GLORY; A Novel
Boston New York Toronto London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall & thick 8vo (9 5/8" x 6 1/4"), brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards with facsimile signature of author on front covr, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) realistic painting of a gathering of Israeli armored infantry by Tim O'Brien, illustrated with double-spread map of the Middle Eastern setting for the Yom Kippur War, 685 pages. Fine / Near Fine. Item #7043
ISBN: 9780316955256
Overall: tight, clean, with bright dust jacket with slight rubbing and a few minute dents on its rear panel.
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was an American author whose 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II. The Glory is third in his series on the Israeli struggles during the 20th century; more specifically, the Yom Kippur War. He has been described as an American Tolstoy.
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