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.
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.
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 thus. Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Published by Flamingo in 1991. Paperback ISBN:9780006543947. Collectible item in very fine condition.
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.
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.
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.
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+
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.
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
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.
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.
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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half title: The leaf which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at times, the author's name and/or other information may appear.