(1st Mariner paperback) Trade paperback, glossy black and blue background with image of troops humping through trees at top front and spine top edges, tiny color photo of author at bottom back left, 233 pages. Creased at top front tip, very light wear at spine bottom right edge. Very Good.
Fine first Canadian printing of O'Brien;s acclaimed collection of Vietnam stories. The binding is square and tight.The jacket has not been price clipped. There are no tears or creases. One small mark to the top right corner of the jacket. A lovely copy of a remarkable work of fiction.
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
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.
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.
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+
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.
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.
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
1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo 255pp., Stories of a Platoon of young soldiers in the madness of the Vietnam War. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with only the tiniest wear
First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine in the Sal Lopes illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.95 to the front flap). A collection of twenty two interconnected short stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. Winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Ãtranger in 1990 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (1991) and The National Book Critics Circle Award (1990). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston
Date published: 1990
Format: Hardcover
First edition of this award-winning group of stories about young soldiers in Viet Nam. Five of the stories appeared first in Esquire. Dust jacket is first state, with the printing on the spine slightly off-center. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
273 pages. Gilt edges, ribbon marker, gilt tooling on binding. Signed by the author on the first sheet following the front free endpaper. Frontispiece by Steve Karchin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Franklin Library, PA, 1990. Fine in gray leather with gilt trim has small neat former owner stamp on end paper. First edition first printing hardcover SIGNED BY OBRIEN ON THE FRONT END PAPER
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.
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