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BLACK FLAGS IN VIETNAM: the story of a Chinese intervention
Edition: First US edition
New York: Macmillan, c1968. Octavo, red cloth. pp 296 + plates on text paper, 2 maps. Yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Spine of red jacket faded, edge nicks; VG otherwise. Story of the Tonkin war of 1884-85. China stepped in when France was trying to steal more land in North Vietnam.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40034More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
CADUCEUS IN SAIGON. A Medical Mission to South Viet-Nam.
Edition: Fiirst printing
London: Hutchinson, 1968. orange cloth. (xii), 210 pp + plates. Small creases to foot of spine, else fine, no owner names. White dust jacket has some light yellowing, else fine. "In the autumn of 1966 five doctors and six nurses were sent to Saigon by the British Ministry of Overseas Development as a positive and peaceful contribution to improve the plight of the children suffering as a result of the war from the shortage of Vietnamese doctors." - jacket.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17644More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
GOING AFTER CACCIATO
Edition: First UK printing
London: Cape, 1978. Blue boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped with a new publisher's price sticker (GBP 7.50) above, else fine. The author's third novel, an acclaimed Vietnam story and the 1978 winner of the National Book Award. A nice copy of the ususal second state with the cancel leaf.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48290More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
IN PHAROAH'S ARMY. Memories of the Lost War (signed)
Edition: First printing
New York: Knopf, 1994. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title leaf "To Paul, Tobias Wolff". The author's account of his tour of duty in Vietnam.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17242More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
INDIAN COUNTRY (ARC)
Edition: First printing
New York: Bantam, 1987. Advance reading copy in red and white non-pictorial card covers. Spine very slightly sunned; rubbed spot to head of spine; light rubbing to spine folds; light sunning to inner and upper margins of rear cover; VG+ otherwise. A novel about the problems of a returned Vietnam vet who is living on an Ojibway reservation in the Upper Peninsual of Michigan by an acclaimed novelist of the war.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 6632More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
PACO'S STORY
Edition: First UK printing
London: Faber, 1987. Black boards. Text paper toned, as always, else fine. Black jacket is price-clipped, lightly rubbed to rear panel, else fine. A novel about a Vietnam vet, it was a controversial winner of a National Book Award.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4989More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
PACO'S STORY
Edition: First printing
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Black cloth and orange boards. Fine in fine jacket. A Vietnam War novel, his second, it was a surprise winner of the 1987 National Book Award for Fiction.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46261More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE BARRACKS THIEF (signed)
Edition: First printing
New York: Ecco Press, 1984. Octavo, black cloth & red boards. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a person who lined up after a reading, "To ____, Tobias Wolff, 26 October 1996". Slight rubbing to spine ends, else fine in fine jacket. A short novel about three paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Viet Nam. Author's first novel, second book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15235More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
THE LIGHT IN THE JUNGLE
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: Copp Clark, 1933. Green cloth lettered in black. Yellowing to page edges, just a little leaned, else fine. Colourful jacket has tiny chips and nicks to ends of faintly yellowed spine, else fine. An adventure / romance novel set in Viet Nam. An uncommon issue, very scarce indeed in this condition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46653More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
THE NEW LEGIONS
Edition: First printing
New York: Random, 1967. Blue-green cloth, top edge yellow-green. A fine copy, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has a tiny rubbed spot to spine, corner crease to rear flap, else fine, no fading. A former Green Beret "tells the hard truth about Vietnam, the military mentality and foreign policy that makes more enemies than friends." A nice copy of a book that received wide circulation in paperback.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17642More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (proof copy)
Edition: First trade edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990 (for 1989?). Advance uncorrected proof in cream typographical card covers printed in red. (xviii), 273, (5) pp, . Corner crease to one leaf, very light spine sunning, else fine. Possibly the best novel to yet come out of the Vietnam War, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. The first published edition was the Franklin Mint edition. The regular edition was scheduled for Feb., 1990, publication so perhaps this proof was issued late in 1989. A very fine, beautiful, wrenching book in a scarce advance issue.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 637More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
VIETNAM: A Personal Impression
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Rogers Broadcasting, 1968. Octavo, glossy card covers. pp (vi), (56). Text in white on black stock. Fine copy. A CHFI radio commentator's impressions of the war. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 36158More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50