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12mo. 233 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good condition. (101699).

273 pages. Touch of foxing to page edges.

The first Italian edition of O'Brien's greatest book.

Fine first Canadian printing of O'Brien;s acclaimed collection of Vietnam stories. The binding is square and tight.The jacket has not been price clipped. There are no tears or creases. One small mark to the top right corner of the jacket. A lovely copy of a remarkable work of fiction.

First Edition, Octavo, half black cloth over black boards with gilt lettering, First issue just jacket. Famous novel of the Vietnam War. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, unfaded. 273pp. Q20645

A bright, solid book DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. Original half cloth and boards gilt ; 273 pages; A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.

War stories. Jacket photograph by Sal Lopes. BOOK: Slight spine head & heel crush; mild scattered foxing across the edges of the text-block; remainder stripe across bottom page edges. JACKET: Intact, with no price printed on the front flap. Mild edgewear & edge-crumpling; small spot of abrasion on spine head; some rubbing and indentations to the panel surfaces (no rupture). Scan on request.

Semi-autobiographical collection of short stories on the Vietnam War. "Half-Price Books" stamp on ffep, else near fine in faintly spine-sunned, near fine dust jacket with mild soiling to jacket verso, in mylar cover.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 237 pages. Widely considered one of the finest novels about the Vietnam War. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to and along the spine.

Hardcover; 8vo; 273 pages. First american edition. Black cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on spine, gilt signature on upper board. Lightly rubbed edges, lightly bumped upper corners. Bright and clean interior, tightly-bound. In a black jacket with white and orange titles. Moderate shelfwear/rubbing. NPC, $19.95 on flap. VG+/VG+

First Edition, 8vo. pp.xiv + 338. red end papers.original quarter black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Near fine copy. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First trade edition. First issue dust wrapper, with the spine title off center and no design credit on the flap.

First edition, first printing Seminal book from the Vietnam War era and one of the best. Fine in gilt lettering dark boards with like shiny like dust jacket. There is just the hint of toning to the fore edge. A lovely copy all around.

DJ in archival cover. First edition with a full number line starting with 1.

Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.

DJ in archival cover. First edition with a full number line starting with 1.

Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.

Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.

Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.