[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, TimBiblio.com
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199028573Boston:: 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
199028928Boston:: 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
199028976Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the author's name on spine. 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
199029186Boston:: 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
199029477Boston:: 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
199028356Toronto:: 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. McClelland and Stewart, unknown
199028401Boston:: 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. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
197162811Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1971. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's grey-green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine with some light sunning at the spine ends in a bright clean example of the pictorial dustwrapper with light shelfwear to head and tail of spine panel. A very good bright clean copy indeed. 174pp. Internally clean. A highly regarded and collectable collection of short stories from an on the ground journalist who travelled Vietnam extensively between 1967 and 1969. Houghton Mifflin unknown
198662715New York: Vanguard Press 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine clean and bright in an equally bright pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy. 250pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:<br /> "To Phyllis Oct 21st 1986 Ron Martin"<br /> A pretty taut and skilful novel of a soldier determined to escape from the horrors of a VC prison camp written by a marine who served in South East Asia as a direct response to the negative treatment delivered to returning US military personnel. Rather more complex than the general run of novels on this theme dealing heavily with the trauma and psychological damage caused not only by incarceration but by a hostile alienating homecoming. Vanguard Press unknown
196462766Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1964. Reprint. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm. Publisher's original buff card covers titled in black to spine and front cover some light marginal shelfwear but generally the only significant defect is some grubbiness to the light coloured card. A very good strong copy. 513pp. Internally clean. 2 folding maps and numerous in text diagrams maps and charts. <br /> <br /> An incredibly detailed and forensically focussed survey of every aspect at least the aspects US intelligence and its civilian analysts had access to of Vietnamese life culturesocial structure economy geography religion and all points between. Everything from GDP to styles of dance and whether the suburbs of Saigon had adequate garbage collection services is examined along with a large amount of military and population data. One could be forgiven for thinking that by 1962 the US Army had already decided that large scale military involvement in Vietnam was a foregone conclusion. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown
197487113New York: Delacorte Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorative blood spatter stamped in silver and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xii2573pp. Hint of foxing to right edge of textblock else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $7.95 with some pinpoint wear to spine ends; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> First work of non-fiction by the author of From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. "James Jones gives us a personal and personalized journal of his trip to Vietnam at the time of the so-called cease-fire as the American Military Assistance Command moved out. He wanted to provide a novelist's view of what it was like in a war-torn country after the cease-fire" from front flap. 87113. Delacorte Press unknown
198723729<p>New York:: Exeter Books 1987. Revised Edition. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. This is the complete illustrated reference to U.S. Army and Allied ground forces in Vietnam that is encyclopedic in its scope In these 416 pages Stanton covers the entire organization structure and operations from 1961 to 1973. Includes unit tours of service unit designations function arrival and departure dates unit locations strength and insignias. This fully illustrated revised edition includes much added material not available in the 1981 edition published by U.S. News.</p> Exeter Books, hardcover
198622955<p>New York:: Galahad Books 1986. First Printing of this Reprint Edition. A Near Fine copy with two slightly bumped corners in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to one corner. This is a reprint edition with much added material not available in the 1981 edition published by U.S. News. This compendium of military information includes over two dozen strategic maps showing the disposition of various units and a list of locales where units fought major battles.</p> Galahad Books, hardcover
196884567Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1968. First Edition. First Printing a trade paperback original. Octavo 21cm; pictorial card wrappers; 56-1262pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine light wear to extremities else a clean Near Fine copy. Selections from the sketchbook of a US Marine of Iwo Jima fame each illustration captioned. 84567. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown
197062822Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1970. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's orange illustrated card covers lightly faded to the spine clean bright and attractive. A very good copy. 127pp. Internally clean. A follow on publication from Waterhouse's very popular first "Vietnam Sketchbook; Drawings from Delta to DMZ". Colonel Charles H. Waterhouse USMC Ret. who fought and was wounded at Iwo Jima became an official civilian War Combat Artist for the US Navy in Vietnam before going on to become the US marine Corps first Artist in Residence until the 1990's. His candid on the ground and occasionally in the air portraits of of Navy and USMC personnel going about their duties amidst the civilian population were very popular and seem to have partly contributed to a definitive artisitic "Aesthetic of Vietnam" an instantly recognisable style of war art that is all but accompanied by a smell and a soundtrack. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown
198363296Novato CA: Presidio Press 1983. First Edition. 4to. 28.5cm x 22cm. Publisher's original black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine strong and handsome in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. Internally clean. A collection of large format sketches and photographs by Crace and McJunkin depicting among other things the often jarring contrast between daily life and military duty in Vietnam during the war. Presidio Press unknown
199262845New York: Random House 1992. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. 24cm x 15.5cm. Publisher's printed card wraps some scuffing to the laminate here and there but otherwise a near fine copy. 402pp. Internally clean. Black and white charts and diagrams to prelims. A calm informed nothing held back account of one the most influential battles of the early stages of the Vietnam conflict. Moore and Galloway both present for the events of the book Moore in command and Galloway as a correspondent recount step by step the progress of the battle; the first major engagement of the war the first to extensively use helicopters to drop troops and equipment into battle and the first engagment to utilise B-25 bombers as air support. Galloway describes Ia Drang as "The battle that convinced Ho Chi Minh he could win." although that had little to do with the fighting ability of the 7th Cavalry and more to do with the swift tactics lessons the battle offered and the realisation that the US could take but not hold fight but not pursue and they could destroy but only what was on the surface. It changed the course of the conflict for both sides and took many prior strategic techniques back to the drawing board. Uncorrected proofs of this title are quite scarce. Random House unknown
199228678New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown
199229029New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown
196828795<p>New York:: Cowles 1968. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner last name stamp on front and rear endpapers in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. General Marshall attended four wars and with a journalist's eye for detail documented numerous major military operations in over 30 books interviewing participants. This battle re-enactment follows the calamitous fighting in three different U.S. operations along a 125 mile long stretch of border land separating Vietnam and Cambodia. Illustrated with photos.</p> Cowles, hardcover
197380718Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee N.d. 1973-74. Poster. Offset lithograph; 22" x 17" printed in two colors on newsprint. Horizontal and vertical fold-lines; mild toning to paperstock; Very Good B. A.F.S.C. imprint lower left; printer's bug lower right. Dated from context. <br /> <br /> An anti-Thieu poster from the final two years of the Vietnam War produced after the main body of American troops had left Indochina and before the fall of Saigon. The poster calls for the defunding of President Thieu's repressive regime in South Vietnam accusing him of building a police state while at the same time enabling the heroin trade carried on by his lieutenants. Quite ephemeral and in very nice condition. American Friends Service Committee unknown
196662733New York: Frederick Fell 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Special Limited Edition number of copies unknown. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's full black leather titled in gilt to spine with decorative gilt ruling to the front board. Clean and handsome. In a black cloth slipcase duplicating the design of the dustjacket for the trade edition. Inscribed on an inserted handmade paper limitation page with some a rather lavish gold ink limitation statement by the author and his wife:<br /> "Mimi and Marguerite with the deep love and affection of The Kruegers Dec. 4 1966 Carl Krueger Ida Krueger"<br /> Billed as "The First Novel of The Vietnam War" and definitely early although according to Newman's bibliographical survey of Vietnam War fiction this rather showy and gung ho novel ranks as the 12th published novel although only 3 novels were published in 1965 whilst the next 25 or so all made na appearance in 1966. This limited presentation issue of the first edition seems completely unknown. Krueger was a decidedly old school author and screenwriter from the post WW2 adventure cinema genre he has writing credits on "Comanche" and "Sabre Jet" both scorching technicolour action movies. He produced the Wyler/Sturges wartime propaganda documentary "Thunderbolt" in 1944 and seems to have had a leaning towards spectacular aircraft movies where the machines occupied as much if not more screen time as the human actors. That certainly seems to have been the intention here it's very aircraft heavyobsessed with the Phantom II and the Vietnamese characters are portrayed as either Machiavellian or offensively stupid. The trade edition dustwrapper bears the statement: "Mr Krueger will personally produce Wings of The Tiger as the greatest air spectacle ever filmed." As far as can be established Mr. Krueger did not. Regardless of anything else it's an interesting illustration of the fact that going into Vietnam with a WW2 mindset was not something exclusively limited to armchair strategists and DC pundits it was also prevalent among those writing and filming accounts of the conflict. Frederick Fell unknown
196687114New York: Frederick Fell Inc 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; red cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv2855pp. Some beginning oxidation to the gilt else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.95 lightly edgeworn with a few tiny tears and some very faint foxing on verso; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> While not "The First Novel of Vietnam" as the front panel copy purports Wings of the Tiger is an early Vietnam War novel centered around the role of the United States Air Force throughout the conflict. The author served in the Air Corps during World War II. 87114. Frederick Fell, Inc unknown
197018470N.p. N.p. c. 1970. Prints in uniformly near fine to very good condition with some curling to the edges. Collection of twenty-five 3 3/8 X 4 1/4 inch Polaroid snapshots mostly in color taken during an American soldier's deployment in An Khê Vietnam. Features images of soldiers grilling drinking and sitting in their bunkers with a few double exposures and a couple of photographs of female civilians. Prints have been adhered to cards with in several instances notes penned on the versos. Fascinating vernacular document of soldier life in one of the most strategically significant military zones of the Vietnam conflict. N.p. N.p. unknown
196951008Berkeley: Berkeley Graphic Arts 1969. Original broadside with text offset printed in black on lime green stock measuring 33cm x 25.25cm ca.13"x 10". Modest wear and handling with some creasing and soil to lower corners and a small triangular chip toward lower left edge; Very Good. Small broadside produced for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam a massive series of demonstrations held in cities across the country on October 15 1969. Given the place of publication this could likely have been used at the Moratorium Rally at UC Berkeley held at noon at Lower Sproul Plaza an event which included speeches by Fanny Lou Hamer Ron Dellums Joe Cole and Dan Siegel cf. UC Berkeley "The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Recording Project: Anti-Vietnam War Protests. Berkeley Graphic Arts unknown
