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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
First printing, full number line. Quarterbound in black paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine with gold lettering. A remainder mark to the bottom page edges, else unmarked; spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; dust-spotting to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $19.95); fading to the spine; Brodart protected.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Binding very tight. DJ not price clipped. In archival cover. First printing.
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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, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
A major literary achievement. Stories about a platoon of soldiers during the Viet Nam War. Book has tiny owner's address label, else fine and easily covered by your bookplate, under a jacket with some faint sunning near the spine foldover, otherwise like new with $19.95 price.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Firs edition, first printing with full number line. $19.95 price and dust jacket just slightly misalighned at spine, like other first editions of this title. Excellent copy with just light shelf wear to dust jacket. Gift quality. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***
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The Book Escape (U.S.A.)
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, unfaded. 273pp. Q20645
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Available is a TRUE 1st ed/1st prtg, w/ complete numberline to "1", of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by TIM O'BRIEN. Published in 1990 by Houghton Mifflin, book and mylar protected dust jacket are AS NEW. Original price of $19.95 intact. A gorgeous clean copy.
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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: 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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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (U.S.A.)
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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
  • 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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Dave Wilhelm Books (U.S.A.)
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 237 pages. Widely considered one of the finest novels about the Vietnam War. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to and along the spine.
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (U.S.A.)
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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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J. Wyatt Books (Canada)
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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: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Hardcover; Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition with complete number line, 10 down to 1. Black paper covered boards with black cloth spine. Author's name in gold on front board, title in gold on spine. Edge wear/rubbing to lower edges. Light soil. Fore edge soil. Text pages are clean. Black dust jacket has title and author on front and the words are slightly wrapped around to the spine. Some edge wear, rubbing and scuffing. Looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
273pp. 1st edition with full printing number line. Black boards, golden lettering, unclipped jacket. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall book shelf/timewear, foxing on textblock edges; moderate jacketwear, jacket edge and cornerwear, spotting, foxing on jacket reverse.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date published: 1990
  • Format: Hard cover
  • ISBN: 9780395515983
Case 1-Shelf 6-120925 This is a First Edition with a complete number line to 1. The Book is in Fine used condition with a snug binding and square. There are no remainder or previous owner markings. The Dust Jacket is in Fine condition with the publisher s price on the front flap. Please see the provided photo of the book on sale. I m happy to provide additional pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask!
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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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