Good++, Good++ Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence First Edition, 1990 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.
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.
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.
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 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. 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. As New. 1990. Uncorrected Proof; First Printing. Softcover. 039551598X . 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 .
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 8.5000 5.9000. SIGNED by the author. Flat signature. 1st edition/1st printing with full number line. Minimal wear to the jacket. Pages are tanning but clean.
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.
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