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HERETIC'S HEART: A Journey Through Spirit & Revolution.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover - The second book, a memoir, by the author of "Drawing Down the Moon." A look back at the 1960s and their impact on American history and culture, when Adler was a free speech advocate at Berkeley during the sixties, a woman who helped register black voters, and an anti-war activist who began a friendship with a soldier in Vietnam. Index. xiii, 309 pp. ISBN: 0-80707098X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83980More details Price: $18.50 -
WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - His third collection of poetry, including several translations and many poems set in New Mexico, as well as others reflecting his experiences during the Vietnam war. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the National Poetry Series, selected by W. S. Merwin. 71 pp. ISBN: 1556590377.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57445More details Price: $28.50 -
WHO'S MY ENEMY? Memories of an American Soldier in Vietnam - 1969.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
Hilger, MT: Bowman's Books, (2006). SIGNED - Memoir in which the author, now in his 60s, remembers fighting in Vietnam against a foe fiercely determined to protect their land, and how he found relief from living with the memories of the horrors of war and the ineptitude of the US government in the Montana wilderness. INSCRIBED on the first page and dated in 2007. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0615133829.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88937More details Price: $16.50 -
THE OLD MAN'S TRAIL.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - "A Novel About The Vietcong" - the author's first novel, a story of the Vietnam War from the enemy's point of view by a Marine who fought against them during the war. In the West the Old Man's Trail is referred to as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. List of Vietnamese phrases, author's historical note. xv, 224 pp Map endpapers. ISBN: 1557501173.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (closed tear to upper corner of dj at fold.)
Book ID: 56900More details Price: $15.00 -
EXILES: Three Short Novels.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of shorter fiction - the novels are set in suburban Connecticut, in Australia's Torres Strait, and in Vietnam, during the war. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450386.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80946More details Price: $35.00 -
EXILES: Three Short Novels.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of shorter fiction - the novels are set in suburban Connecticut, in Australia's Torres Strait, and in Vietnam, during the war. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450386.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80770More details Price: $35.00 -
NO PLACE TO HIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in Carroll's Vietnam War / Naval aviation trilogy. Set in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army is smashing its way to Saigon, and the remaining American troops are trying to see that all American personnel are evacuated. Afterword by Tom Clancy. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-671865102.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67773More details Price: $16.50 -
FOOLISH UNDERTAKING.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in this series of mysteries involving funeral director Barry Clayton, set in a small mountain town in North Carolina (where the author himself grew up). 252 pp. ISBN: 1-590582276.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70436More details Price: $15.00 -
UP COUNTRY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2002.). First edition - EXCERPT only: "A sneak reading preview of the first nine chapters." Paul Brenner is called out of early retirement to investigate the death of a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam 30 years, a death which now appears to be a murder. 140 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon promotional piece.
Book ID: 56984More details Price: $15.00 -
UP COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Paul Brenner is called out of early retirement to investigate the death of a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam 30 years, a death which now appears to be a murder. 706 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-516570.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 56053More details Price: $15.00 -
CONFESSIONS OF BROTHER ELI: A Novel by Joseph Di Prisco.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
San Francisco: MacAdam/CagePublishing, 2000. Joseph Di Prisco is a poet and an essayist who writes reviews in numerous journals and has published two books of poetry. His first novel follows a Catholic Brother's journey through matters of faith, truth, money, envy, power, and food. Its landscape includes a Catholic prep school during the Vietnam War.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers (trade paperback format.)
Book ID: 18944More details Price: $25.00 -
NO BUGLE, NO DRUMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set during the Vietnam War - "A sometimes hilarious Catch-22 about a Georgia ""grunt"" stuck guarding a pig farm near Danang. Hawkins and his buddies smoke dope, run a numbers game, smoke dope, run a lottery, smoke dope, smuggle dope, and dope-philosophize (sort of) as they wait for time and the war to pass them by. During off hours, they blow up a South Viet outfit to win the daily numbers (based on the number of dead ARVN) . . . a tale of psychic and moral disintegration--a humorous and at times disgusting charting of the path from cynicism to nihilism." (Kirkus Reviews). ISBN: 0-670-514195.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (hint of toning to cream dj).
Book ID: 61389More details Price: $45.00 -
COMANCHE SIX: Company Commander in Vietnam.
Edition: Book club edition.
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover - The author served four tours in Vietnam, although this book focuses on his third tour as company commander in the 1st Cavalry Division "Comanche Six" - it tells the story of young American infantrymen caught up in a war that could not be won, how in the process young boys became fighters and leaders - but he does not hesitate to report on the horrors of war, "of infantrymen cut in half by enemy fire, of a firefight in a sector littered with two-week-old decaying corpses, of leeches in every rice paddy." Glossary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-89141410X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85124More details Price: $16.50 -
LIZZIE'S WAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperSanFrancisco (Harper Collins), (2005.). First edition - It's July1967, and Mike O'Reilly's has just shipped out to Vietnam while at home Liz O'Reilly is trying to keep it all together for their four kids. Novel by the author of the New York Times Notable Book "The Monk Downstairs." 369 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated covers (the word 'staff' written on the edges of the textblock.)
Book ID: 37108More details Price: $14.00 -
SGT. ED ARTHUR'S NAM
Edition: First printing.
Westville, Ohio: Dakar Publishing Co., 1974. Hardcover first edition - An account of Ed Arthur's tour of duty with the 1st Cav, R&R in Hong Kong, and then seriously wounded when his heilcopter is shot down. 213 pp plus a postscript which states that the events are true, but they have been recollected in a fictional form.
Condition: Near fine in violet cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 89354More details Price: $15.00 -
SERGEANT DICKINSON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84264More details Price: $30.00 -
THE THINGS WE DO TO MAKE IT HOME.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84169More details Price: $35.00 -
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? The Second Coming of the 60's Generation.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Times Books, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful comprehensive look at the 1960's published twenty years after the Summer of Love in San Francisxo - The story of the American 1960s generation and its 'passage' to a promising middle life, from the times of rebellion - sexual, economic, anti-war, getting high, anti-materialistic - to the present realities - and the extent to which they still maintain the values, ideals, and philosophies of the past. Now that another 20 years has passed, it is interesting to read this book and to see what further changes have occured to this generation. Notes, resource list. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-81291225X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 39417More details Price: $18.00 -
TOURING NAM: The Vietnam War Reader.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology with contribution by David Reed, Tim O'Brien, Ronald J. Glasser, Kent Anderson, Stan Goff and others, arranged topically from FNGs (Fucking New Guys) to Body Bags, R&R, troop withdrawal and more. Introduction by the editors. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-688034632.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 89387More details Price: $21.50 -
RESURRECTING LANGSTON BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Frog Ltd / North American Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery rooted in the Vietnam war, featuring black Denver bail bondsman C. J. Floyd and his partner, former intelligence sergeant, Flora Jean Benson. 421 pp. ISBN: 1583941363.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56444More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GOLD GAP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - After Lt Commander Sargent escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, he is given a hero's welcome in Beverly Hills, where he takes the offer of a multimillionaire to investigate a showgirl, only to find himself being interrogated by Chinese agents that want to know about an earlier escape paid for in stolen gold coins. 192 pp. Dust jacket by Jack Wolf.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 71432More details Price: $21.50 -
1968: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87532More details Price: $35.00 -
GHOST SOLDIERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. "A Story of Vietnam and the Supernatural. Dreams of victory, dreams of survival in the Vietnam war, and the bizarre fantasies that keep a soldier alive. When a helicopter shrieks out of the night sky, crashing in enemy country, a war-battered company of soldiers risk their lives to save brother soldiers. A soldier's dream can lead to a hard victory and a stranger truth." A Walker Adventure Novel. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-802708897.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning)
Book ID: 89391More details Price: $20.00 -
TAP CODE: The Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything.
Edition: First printing.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of survival in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. "In April 1965, Harris was the sixth American POW captured in the air war over North Vietnam, and for the next eight years, he and hundreds of other American POWs - including John McCain - suffered torture, solitary confinement, and abuse. . . in the midst of the struggle, Smitty remembered once learning the Tap Code - an old, long-unused World War II method of communication through tapping on a common water pipe. He covertly taught the code to many POWs, and in turn they taught others." Photographs. 255 pp. ISBN: 978-0310359111.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. l
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THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of McNamara which focuses on his role as Secretary of Defense, his involvement in the Vietnam War, and his decision to keep publicly supporting that war even after he knew it was unwinnable. Also tells the stories of just five of the many people who were caught up in the wake of his decisions: an artist who tries to kill him after he had resigned from the Cabinet, a Quaker who immolated himself outside the Pentagon, a young Marine scarred by battle, a nurse desperate to believe her agonies in Vietnam were for a good cause, a member of a Saigon family. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-679427619.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a tight clean copy, old price on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 37863More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GODS OF ANTENNA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41843More details Price: $12.50 -
FROM THE SHADOW OF DEATH: Stories of POWs.
Edition: First printing.
Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company., 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of eight former prisoners of war, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), released by Viet Nam after years of captivity, based on interviews with them (and with the wife of a still missing man.) Photographs. Index. 350 pp. Blue and white map endpapers. ISBN: 0-877475091.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj.)
Book ID: 44946More details Price: $16.00 -
VIETNAM: THE BATTLE COMES HOME: A Photographic Record of Post-Traumatic Stress With Selected Essays.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1984. First edition - Essays on post-traumatic stress disorder as experienced by Vietman vets by Carl Trocki, Robert J. Lifton, John P. Wilson, Jim Goodwin, Tom Keller and Jerry Atchison, Arthur S. Blank, Jr., Arthur Egendorf, Peter Marin and Robert O. Muller. Illustrated with photographs by Gordon Baer. Directory of Outreach Programs, bibliograhy. Large square format. 112 pp. ISBN: 0-871001993.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of back cover).
Book ID: 84997More details Price: $16.50 -
SECOND WATCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring both Seattle private investigator J. P. Beaumont, one which takes us deep into his past both on the police force and even earlier when he served in Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note of the story behind this book. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0-062134877.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72471More details Price: $30.00 -
FOURTEEN LANDING ZONES: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1991). First edition - An anthology which includes "fourteen diverse and powerful works by some of today's leading critics in Vietnam studies begin to answer the question of how we will filter the writings of the Vietnam War - including fiction, poetry, drama, and memoirs. What will survive the process of critical acclaim and societal affirmationand why?" Among the essays are "Humping the Boonies on Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country" by Katherine Kinney; "The Vietnam War Novels of Taikesho Kaiko" by Mark A. Heberle and much more. Works cited at the end of each essay. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-877453152.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88312More details Price: $20.00