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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition of O'Brien's classic, INSCRIBED on the title page "Peace, Tim O'Brien". Full number line. Unclipped jacket with slight sunning to spine, now in mylar. Dark boards, red endpapers, pages clean and unmarked. [xiv], 273pp. 8.5 x 6

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by O'Brien. 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.

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 .

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.