Octavo, [10], 273pp. Black cloth, black boards, title in gilt on spine, author's signature stamped in gilt on front cover. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, unmarked pages, a fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $19.95 retail price on front flap, a slight amount of shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the author on the title page, inscribed "To Rozzy, Peace. Tim O'Brien / 22 Nov. 98." The Things They Carried is a collection of short stories about an American platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, primarily based on the experience O'Brien had while serving as a member of the 23rd Infantry Division.
Signed by author in ink on front fly-leaf. Publisher's promotional material from the Signed First Edition Society laid in. Bound in publisher's original tan leather with spine and covers stamped in illustrated gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 273 pages.
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. Scratching to gilt on bulked fore-edge of text, otherwise about Fine
Publisher: THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY (THE SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY)
Date published: 1990
Format: Hardcover
SIGNED BY TIM O BRIEN ON THE FRONT BLANK END PAGE. GRAY FULL LEATHER WITH GOLD GILT EDGING, LETTERING AND DECORATION. THREE RAISED BANDS ON THE SPINE. SILK RIBBON BOOKMARK, OCTAVO. PRISTINE CONDITION. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES.
Bound in publisher's original black quarter cloth with black paper boards, stamped on spine and cover with gilt. Presentation signed by the author on the title page. 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches. 273 pages.
Publisher: The Franklin Library, The Franklin Center
Date published: 1990
Format: Hardcover
8vo pp.273. SIGNED by author Tim O'Brien on FEP. Full gilt-embossed, decorated toffee brown leather, 3 raised bands, Marbled endpapers, satin ribbon, AEG. From the Signed First Edition Society.
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