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A bright, solid book DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. Original half cloth and boards gilt ; 273 pages; A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.

Crisp, unread copy of first printing. No flaws but for 33 ~ 90 printed neatly in ink on front endpaper. Jacket is without flaw as well. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

First Edition, Octavo, half black cloth over black boards with gilt lettering, First issue just jacket. Famous novel of the Vietnam War. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Black cloth and boards. 8vo. Printed black dust jacket with unclipped flap. Full number line on copyright page. Inscribed by the author. A very good copy with some rubbing to the lower spine. The text is very good and clean. The jacket is very good with light edgewear.

First Edition, 8vo. pp.xiv + 338. red end papers.original quarter black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Near fine copy. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Fine in glossy stapled wrappers. A promotional excerpt for the forth coming book "to be published in March 1990" and with a note from publisher Seymour Lawrence. Uncommon.

8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First trade edition. First issue dust wrapper, with the spine title off center and no design credit on the flap.

Size: 8x5x1; First Edition in first state jacket. Houghton Mifflin, 1990; First Printing with full number line; 273pp. Title text on jacket is off-center, front flap retains original price of $19.95, no design credit on rear flap. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling on black cloth spine remains bright and bold; text very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. An exemplary copy of this modern classic of war storytelling that is also "a book about the human heart, about the terrible weight of these things all of us carry through their lives." Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

First Edition in first state jacket. Houghton Mifflin, 1990; First Printing with full number line; 273pp. Title text on jacket is off-center, front flap retains original price of $19.95, no design credit on rear flap. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling on black cloth spine remains bright and bold; text very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. An exemplary copy of this modern classic of war storytelling that is also "a book about the human heart, about the terrible weight of these things all of us carry through their lives." Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

First printing of his classic book. Unmarked, tight and square. Light cupping at base of spine. Unread, crisp copy. Jacket is bright and fresh with no sunning. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall