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196762705New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm. x 15cm. Publisher's green cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in red and black to spine light rubbing and edgewear some inoffensive discoloration to the cloth in a strong priceclipped example of the dustjacket light shelfwear and creasing with some sunning to the spine panel. A very good strong copy. Internally clean fore-edge untrimmed. <br /> <br /> An early novel about Vietnam; written by a serving soldier dealing with the conflict that exists between decisive military action and the common civilian understanding of what that entails and the nature of its consequences. W.W. Norton & Co unknown
197052105Hamden CT: Archon Books 1970. 8vo. 349 1 pp. Numerous plates maps. Pink-coloured cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art slight shelfwear very slight closed tear upper fore-edge NF/NF copy. First American edition. Archon Books, hardcover
197420856<p>Washington DC:: US Government Printing Office 1974. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in Original paperback binding. The thirteen articles in this anthology provide a general overview of Marine involvement in the Vietnam War.</p> US Government Printing Office, paperback
196562872Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1965. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's pale green embossed cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in dark brown and red to spine and front board with an embossed flame design in blind to front board. Clean and strong with some light bumping to the spine ends in bright pictorial dustjacket with some fraying and scuffing to the spine ends a very good. clean copy indeed. 284pp. Internally clean. With 17pp. of photographs to the middle of the book taken by the author including a sequence of images of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc self immolating in Saigon on June 11th 1963 the capturing of which event gained Browne lasting recognition and won him a Pulitzer. Another rather more significant effect of Browne's photograph is that by the morning of June 12th John F. Kennedy had the photograph on his desk pointed at it and bluntly told US Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge who contributed the preface to this book "This sort of thing has got to stop." Whilst that might sound like a relatively mild response to the suicide by fire of a respected holy man it effectively signalled the end of US support for the Ngo Dinh Diem regime and changed the course of the next ten years of conflict and upheaval. Bobbs-Merrill unknown
196762756New York: Random House 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's green cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in silver gilt red and green to spine and front board. Clean and bright in a strong handsome photographic dustjacket with some very light edgewear and scuffing a near fine copy. 275pp. Internally clean. Top edge stained yellow. A review copy with the Random House slip laid in at the front. A pretty searing indictment of the tactics and methods of the US military machine in Vietnam as described by a Special Forces veteran who served on Project Delta and in the An Lao Valley before famously quitting in disgust and becoming something of a celebrity amongst journalists and organisations campaigning for an end to the hostilities. Random House unknown
197108-29-2022-10This hardcover has black boards with a fine detailed silver gilt image with the US flag and Vietnam Veterans from a photo by George Butler. All lettering and image in silver is in fine condition. All pages and the numerous photos are clean and unmarked.<br />INSCRIBED on the title page as seen in photo. <br />we believe that the David Putnam to whom the inscription is dedicated is or was a Massachusetts friend of Mr. Kerry but we are unable to verify this.<br /> DJ condition is Good-. Chipping along top and bottom margins Two tiny closed tears repaired with tape several others untaped. She creases in DJ flaps. Not price clipped.<br /> This work is a photographic essay of the Anti-War movement and the Vietnam Veterans that culminated in a march of the Capital Building in 1971. An important text for anyone interested in American History and the climate of the Country during the Vietnam War. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1971278Collier 1971. 1st. Soft Cover. 1st paperback ed. 1971. Tall thin 4to. 174 pgs. A VG copy. Collier unknown
1971588841New York: Collier Books 1971. Softcover. Fine. First paperback edition issued simultaneously with the hardcover issue. Quarto. Top corner a little rubbed else about fine. Advance Review Copy with letter from the editor sending this Advance copy to American novelist Mary McCarthy. Collier Books unknown
1971352118New York: Macmillan 1971. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Black cloth. Fine in near fine clippwed dj. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Macmillan unknown
1971039005NY: THE MACMILLAN CO. owner's bookplate & article affixed to ffep. no markings. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1971. THE MACMILLAN CO. hardcover
1971009802New York: The MacMillan Co 1971. 174pp/illus. 174pp. First edition. Original black cloth front board and spine stamped in silver. In an unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Edited by David Thorne and George Butler. The photos contained herein are a moving record of the anti-Vietnam war movement. Small tear on back of unclipped dj. Text clean and unmarked. Overall excellent condition. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The MacMillan Co Hardcover
197267771Saigon Republic of Viet-Nam: Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1972. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10.5 inches. Unpaginated by 32 pages plus covers. Decorative cover.with some color. Illustrations Maps color. This contemporary propaganda material is ephemeral and relatively few copies have survived in private hands in the more than four decades since it was published. From Wikipedia: "South Vietnam officially the Republic of Vietnam was a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. It received international recognition in 1949 as the "State of Vietnam" 1949-55 and later as the "Republic of Vietnam" 1955-75. The term "South Vietnam" became common usage in 1954. South Vietnam's origins can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina a subdivision of French Indochina. After World War II the Vietminh led by Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the establishment of a Communist nation in Hanoi. In 1949 non-communist Vietnamese politicians formed a rival government in Saigon led by former emperor Bao Dai. Bao Dai was deposed by Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem in 1955 who proclaimed himself president after a referendum. After Diem was deposed in a military coup in 1963 there was a series of military governments. General Nguyen Van Thieu led the country from 1967 until 1975. The Vietnam War began in 1959 with an uprising by Viet Cong forces. Fighting climaxed during the Tet Offensive of 1968 when there were over 1.5 million South Vietnamese soldiers and 500000 U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam. Despite a peace treaty concluded in January 1973 fighting continued until the North Vietnamese army overran Saigon on 30 April 1975." This document from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was aimed as the English-speaking audience was was aimed at rallying support against the North Vietnamese onslaught. Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon. On March 29 1972 fourteen North Vietnamese divisions backed by more than three hundred tanks crossed the Demilitarized Zone into South Vietnam. It was an assault every bit as ferocious as the Tet Offensive in 1969 and perhaps even more so: where Tet had been an uprising by Viet Cong guerrillas backed by regular North Vietnamese troops the Easter Offensive of 1972 was a blitzkrieg a conventional mechanized assault by troops well-equipped with armor artillery and antiaircraft weapons. Several North Vietnamese Army or NVA divisions crossed the DMZ into the northern tip of South Vietnam. Other forces struck from their bases in ostensibly neutral Cambodia into the southwest part of South Vietnam perilously close to Saigon. Unlike Tet the South Vietnamese army or ARVN would not have U.S. ground troops fighting beside them or instead of them. American advisers could assist the South Vietnamese but with America in the midst of withdrawing its ground troops and the American public tired of casualties ground combat units would not be committed to the battlefield. The ARVN would have to fight its own battle. The key northern border town of Quang Tri fell and the NVA advanced to the gates to the vital city of Hue. The ARVN and South Vietnam were in trouble. Then salvation came from the skies. Airpower had always been a key factor—actually the key factor—factor in America's favor during the war in Indochina. But this time it was the only politically feasible means by which the United States could aid South Vietnam in 1972. By that time the American air fleet in Southeast Asia had dwindled to about eight hundred combat aircraft in Vietnam and Thailand including two U.S. Navy carrier air wings. Illustrating the flexibility of airpower by the end of May an additional four hundred Air Force fighters had arrived plus four more carriers. Most significantly the aerial armada included more than two hundred B-52s. Ministry of Foreign Affairs paperback
196618564Peking:: Foreign Languages Press 1966. First Printing. Near Fine copy with a small stain spot on the top edge in illustrated wraps. Subtitled: A Collection of Chinese Art Works in Support of the Vietnamese People's Struggle." A lush and prolific collection of artwork in both color and black and white. Foreign Languages Press, paperback
196762710New York: New American Library 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine clean and sharp in a strong and bright example of the dustjacket slight scuffing and edgewear. A near fine copy. 214pp. Internally clean. Highly controversial upon its publication and asking a number of questions that its 1967 readers clearly weren't comfortable discovering the answers to Kolpacoff's novel deals with a nightmarish situation in which a disgraced US soldier's refusal to fight lands him in a brutal prison camp. He is offered reinstatement if he participates in the interrogation and torture of a 17 year old Vietcong prisoner in a claustrophobic jungle hut with four other men all of whom possess varying reasons and motivations for being there but who are all simply through association equally damned. Kolpacoff was never in Vietnam which seems immaterial to the main question posed by this his first novel; it is not so much what we are doing to our enemies but what are we doing to ourselves New American Library unknown
198727886<p>New York:: Crown 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The Ravens were American forward air-controllers who directed strikes from vulnerable low-flying spotter planes mainly in support of a Meo general named Vang Pao in Laos. "Advised" by the CIA this fierce warlord fought to keep the North Vietnamese out of the strategic Plain of Jars. Robbins Air America conveys the unique flavor of Raven-style combat and also explains how the diplomatic-military dynamics of the clandestine war in Laos fit into the overall American effort in Southeast Asia. The cast of characters is memorable: a swaggering rowdy bunch of mavericks whom their parent service the U.S. Air Force had great difficulty controlling they seemed to get by on sheer cussedness. According to the author they suffered the highest casualty rate of the Indochinese War. Robbins describes the poignant plight of displaced Meo/Hmong tribespeople who have settled uneasily in the United Statesincluding General Paoand their ongoing struggle to "propitiate the alien spirits of America." Photos. </p> Crown, hardcover
19672090202122701249Jinbunshoin 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Jinbunshoin paperback
2080702109503977Jinbunshoin N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 235p Plate size: 19cm Number of books: 1 Jinbunshoin paperback
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
197188609NY: Grossman 1971. First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 160 pp. Covers lightly rubbed else very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small corner crease to the rear panel. An encounter with Robert Capa’s IMAGES OF WAR inspired Jury to communicate his own experience and that of his fellow soldiers. NY: Grossman, paperback