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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Sharp tight copy.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 237 pages. Widely considered one of the finest novels about the Vietnam War. A very good copy plus in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear. Despite the flaws a solid copy of this terrific book.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
First printing. Price of $19.95 intact on flap as well as code 0390. Collection of stories about a platoon of soldiers in the Vietnam War.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence. Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. The number line goes to 1. $19.95 on the flap.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,, Boston:
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
First printing. Near fine in a near fine (fading to lettering along the spine) dust jacket.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
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.
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  • Publisher: Collins, London
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
War stories. Jacket photograph by Sal Lopes. BOOK: Slight spine head & heel crush; mild scattered foxing across the edges of the text-block; remainder stripe across bottom page edges. JACKET: Intact, with no price printed on the front flap. Mild edgewear & edge-crumpling; small spot of abrasion on spine head; some rubbing and indentations to the panel surfaces (no rupture). Scan on request.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
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
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  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Date published: 1991
  • Format: Softcover
  • ISBN: 9780006543947
First Edition thus, as good as new. Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Published by Flamingo in 1991. Paperback ISBN:9780006543947. Collectible item in excellent condition.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Dust jacket mis-folded at factory, so the title on spine is not perfectly centered. Otherwise book and dust jacket solid VG, no obvious flaws. Number line from 10 to 1. Dust jacket in Brodart cover.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawerence, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
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.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co. / Seymour Lawrence
  • Date published: 1990
Semi-autobiographical collection of short stories on the Vietnam War. "Half-Price Books" stamp on ffep, else near fine in faintly spine-sunned, near fine dust jacket with mild soiling to jacket verso, in mylar cover.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
Hardcover; 8vo; 273 pages. First american edition. Black cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on spine, gilt signature on upper board. Lightly rubbed edges, lightly bumped upper corners. Bright and clean interior, tightly-bound. In a black jacket with white and orange titles. Moderate shelfwear/rubbing. NPC, $19.95 on flap. VG+/VG+
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  • Publisher: Published by Houghton Mifflin./ Seymour Lawrence, New York
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
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.
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  • Publisher: Collins, London
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780002236034
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. First UK Edition. Very good condition. Foxing to page block and pages are tanned at edges. Pages are sound, text is clear. TA
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
  • Date published: 1989
  • Format: Softcover
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.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1990
First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Light sunning to the jacket spine. One of the enduring works on the Vietnam War. A collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. Based on O'Brien's experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition, first printing Seminal book from the Vietnam War era and one of the best. Fine in gilt lettering dark boards with like shiny like dust jacket. There is just the hint of toning to the fore edge. A lovely copy all around.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
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.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Date published: 2017
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781328483133
Signed copy of the First Printing of 2017 edition of Tim O'Brien's classic novel of the American Army in the Vietnam War. Signed by Tim O'Brien on a signature page at front. 233 pages. Has a removable Barnes and Noble "Signed Copy" sticker on the front cover of the dust jacket. Has a bit of tanning of the page edges. Otherwise no sign of previous use.
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