A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time, the place, and the men who experienced that particular conflict. If you were going to read only one book dealing with the Vietnam War experience,"The Things They Carried" should be that book. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, New York
Date published: 1990
Format: Hardcover
First Trade Edition after the Franklin Library edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of the Vietnam conflict. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: A WORK OF FICTION - SIGNED
O'Brien, Tim
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: A WORK OF FICTION - SIGNED
O'Brien, Tim
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston
Date published: 1990
First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],[3],4-273,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in the second state dustjacket, with the spine lettering perfectly centered; unclipped (priced $19.95), with the only flaw being a thin diagonal razor cut toward the lower spine panel; Near Fine. The National Book Award-winning author's fourth novel and fifth book, a collection of interconnected stories centered around a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1990). Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop.
Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1990). Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop.
Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.
Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.
Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.
First edition, first printing. Hardbound. This is the "1st State" dust jacket with the slight offset. Fine/fine. A tight clean copy, without flaw. Appears unread. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
First edition, first printing. Hardbound. This is the "1st State" dust jacket with the slight offset. Fine/fine. A tight clean copy, without flaw. Appears unread. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
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