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Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition/irst Printing. $19.95 Gorgeous Fresh Copy Without Wear. O'Brien Great Classic on The Vietnam War.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Gilt lettering on black covers in a black dust jacket. 8vo, 273pp.

First printing. Near fine in a near fine (fading to lettering along the spine) dust jacket.

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.

Size: 8x5x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. National Book Award winner O'Brien's fifth book is considered by many to be the best work written on the Vietnam War as well as a superb technical achievement spanning and combining three literary forms -- the short story, the novel and the memoir; top edge of text very slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; first issue dustjacket (title on spine off center, no DJ design credit on flap) shows only very slight edgewear and rubbing. A Collectable Copy.

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.

Toronto:: McClelland and Stewart,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. 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.

Size: 8x5x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition/irst Printing. $19.95 Gorgeous Fresh Copy Without Wear. O'Brien Great Classic on The Vietnam War.

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.

Size: 8x5x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. First issue (slightly misaligned) jacket. Author's name on spine slightly faded.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Edition. 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.

Uncorrected proof in AS New Condition. Rare. Softcover.; 8vo; 273 pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1990. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 039551598X . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 8.5 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches .

Uncorrected proof in AS New Condition. Rare. Softcover.; 8vo; 273 pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth and black boards with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket.

Signed first edition, hardcover. Signed by author on full title page. Binding square and solid, text and edges unblemished, DJ bright and unfaded. Flier from signing event laid in. Unclipped DJ protected with Brodart cover. Full number line, 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. Signed on the title page by Tim O'Brien. First trade edition / First printing. Some have stated that the First Issue of this title was released with the jacket slightly mis-rolled so that some of the cover type is on the spine. This copy has the mis-rolled jacket. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. Listed as one of the top 25 books of the last 25 years by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.

A Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Giftable Book. Black cloth-backed paper boards, lettering in gilt, with the dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 273 pages. Book appears unread; the dust jacket has the price of $19.95. O'Brien's collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. Considered one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. A Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Giftable Book. Black cloth-backed paper boards, lettering in gilt, with the dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo;8.5 inches tall; 273 pages. Book appears unread; the dust jacket has the price of $19.95.. O'Brien's collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. Considered one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature.

A square tight solid clean un-read unused copy with just the slightest hint of soil to the edges of the text block. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.