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THE INLAND ISLAND
Edition: Fourth printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. dj. Hardcover - A beautifully evocative description of the year, month by month, as observed on the author's Ohio farm, contrasted with expressions of anger at the current war (Vietnam) and all of man's inhumanity to man. Illustrated with drawings by Mel Klapholz. 159 pp,. ISBN: 0-671-201778.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 31722More details Price: $12.50 -
LONG TIME PASSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel for young adults about love, war and sacrifice, one which evokes the unrest of the '60s. For Jonas, 1969 is a summer of choices and decisions that will echo throughout his life and eventually take him back 20 years later to the northern California coastal town where he spent his eighteenth summer. His romance with spirited peace activist Auleen Delange , who is living in a Berkeley commune, conflicts with Jonas' allegiance to a Marine Corps, Vietnam-based father. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-06023055x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83920More details Price: $17.50 -
CRACKER! THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Atheneum, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Moving young adult novel by this Newbery award winning author, the story of a young soldier in Vietnam who bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog. Told in part thru the view of the dog. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- happy reading" and with 'woof! woof!' under Kadohata's signature. 312pp. Dust jacket art by Shane Rebenschied. ISBN: 1416906371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53278More details Price: $25.00 -
DRAGONFIRE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (1987). First edition - Thriller the intelligence agent known only as Sawyer. "Code-named Dragonfire, Sawyer's mission is to trade the guns needed by the Khmer Resistance for a billion dollars in pure morphine base. So begins a desperate journey from the deadly underworldof Bangkok's teeming waterfront to the forbidden hill country of the Golden Triangle, an exotic world of rival warlords, opium smugglers, and savage tribesmen, a world where violence rules and anything is permitted." 332 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed green wrappers.
Book ID: 70515More details Price: $15.00 -
OVER THE EDGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar Publishing, (2006). First edition - The author's first suspense novel, set in 1969 in a Jackson Hole, Wyoming, then a burgeoning ski resort, the story of two dangerous men on a collision course. 317 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 63320More details Price: $16.50 -
MARBLE MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.
Book ID: 47696More details Price: $20.00 -
MARBLE MOUNTAIN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.
Book ID: 47695More details Price: $18.00 -
LOST ARMIES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's short and disturbing second novel - a Vietnam novel that takes place 50 miles from Washington, D.C, in the marshlands of Maryland - a murder mystery and a ghost story. Karlin was one of the editors and contributors to the anthology fiction by Vietnam veterans published by Casualty Press in 1973, 'Free Fire Zone'. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-07156.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23882More details Price: $25.00 -
SHALLOW GRAVES: Two Women and Vietnam.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the half title page by author Wendy Larsen and dated in the year of publication. An uncommon book about Vietnam and the war - a poetic collaboration by two women, one American, one Vietnamese - Wendy Larsen, an American teacher who traveled to Vietnam in 1970 when her journalist husband was covering the war in Vietnam, and Tran Thi Nga, a Vietnamese bookkeeper whom she met there and who was reunited with Larsen in New York after Nga was forced to flee Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Map, glossary, chronology, sources. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-394549856.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 41864More details Price: $28.00 -
THE FREEING OF THE DUST.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: New Directions, (1975) dj. Hardcover - Levertov's tenth collection of poetry, in which she continues to explore the personal and public themes that threaded through her work during the disastrous American involvement in Indochina. Included are many poems that speak of the tragedy of war, the result of her visit to North Vietnam in the fall of 1972. Winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-811205819.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (neat prev owner's name)
Book ID: 84644More details Price: $21.50 -
"READING THE WIND" The Literature of the Vietnam War. An Interpretive Critique with a Bibliographic Commentary.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 67580More details Price: $25.00 -
VIETNAM: TEN YEARS AFTER: The Reference Shelf, Volume 58, Number 2.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
New York: The H. W. Wilson Company 1986. First edition - A title in the Reference Shelf - a series which compiles essays, addresses and excerpts from books on current issues and social trends in the United States and other countries. This includes sections on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the war in Cambodia, the Veterans Memorial and POWs. Among the contributors are George P. Schultz, Norman Podhorotz, Kent Anderson, James Chace and more. Bibliography. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-824207246.
Condition: Very near fine in blue wrappers with white lettering.
Book ID: 78380More details Price: $15.00 -
MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover - One of the most powerful and realistic novels written about the Vietnam War, List of characters, maps, glossary of technical terms and slang. 600 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119285.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 67955More details Price: $15.00 -
IN THE COMBAT ZONE: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First person accounts by twenty women who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, with brief introductions to each chapter by Marshall. Bibliography, glossary. viii, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-316547077.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 37675More details Price: $20.00 -
IN COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel (fourth book), winner of the Pen-Faulkner Award and basis of the movie of the same name. An exploration of the moral fallout of the Vietnam War from the point of view of a 17 year old girl whose father was killed in Vietnam before she was born. ISBN: 0-06-0154691.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 9401More details Price: $25.00 -
ZOMBIE JAMBOREE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of "The Florida Book of the Dead." Jack Becker, from that novel, is in the Army in Vietnam and reveling in the insanity of the daily bureaucracy. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-688019463.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket(crinkling to dj at ends of spine)
Book ID: 69254More details Price: $15.00 -
FALLEN ANGELS.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Scholastic, (c 1988.). Powerful - and very highly praised - novel about the horrors of war as seen by a 17 year old black soldier during his tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967-8. Frontispiece map. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-590409433.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 57040More details Price: $8.50 -
THE GREATEST: MUHAMMAD ALI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scholastic, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at Muhammad Ali's life from a talented writer for young readers. Photographs. Bibliography, chronology, index. 172 pp.
Condition: Good only in a very good dustjacket (underlining on a few pages, corners bumped.)
Book ID: 41247More details Price: $15.00 -
WAR AT HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - it's summertime in 1969 when Dalton "heads east to look for a missing college student. Daniel Kirkland never showed up for his spring semester at Yale and seems to have disappeared without a trace. The search for Daniel takes Smokey the nation's wealthiest university to the poorest slums on the outskirts of New Haven. The harder he searches, the more he learns about the dark side of the antiwar movement, in which the idealistic young Daniel may have become involved." SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0+312325282.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79299More details Price: $30.00 -
AMERICAN BLOOD.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1987.) dj. Hardcover - One of Nichols' more controversial novels - the violence that was Vietnam pervades every aspect of American life. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-0374-6.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50008More details Price: $12.50 -
AMERICAN BLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of Nichols' more controversial novels - the violence that was Vietnam pervades every aspect of American life. ISBN: 0-8050-0374-6.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 17264More details Price: $16.00 -
AMERICAN BLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of Nichols' more controversial novels - the violence that was Vietnam pervades every aspect of American life. This copy has a lengthy INSCRIPTION by Nichols: "For Max, In hopes that you will always have the chutzpuh, the courage, the joy and the humor to stick by your guns. Hasta la victoria. Siempre!" and dated April 26, 1987. ISBN: 0-8050-0374-6.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13350More details Price: $45.00 -
FOR ROUENNA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88811More details Price: $18.50 -
GOING AFTER CACCIATO.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in teal cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some short edge tears).
Book ID: 88386More details Price: $28.50 -
THE NAMES OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which is both a contempary thriller and a powerful story of the Vietnam war by this prize-winning author, who was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. Dustjacket praise from Tim O'Brien, Alice McDermott and Tobias Wolff. SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481926.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 43401More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GIVEN WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a "portrait of post-Vietnam America seen through the eyes of a young woman searching for the courage to go home again." SIGNED on the title page and dated Feb 2016. Dust jacket praise from Karin Joy Fowler, Lorrie Moore and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1476777931.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 77739More details Price: $28.50 -
THE GIVEN WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a "portrait of post-Vietnam America seen through the eyes of a young woman searching for the courage to go home again." SIGNED on the title page and dated April 2015. Dust jacket praise from Karin Joy Fowler, Lorrie Moore and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1476777931.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66441More details Price: $35.00 -
COMBAT RECON: My Year With the AVRN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - In 1967, as a young Army Lieutenant, the author was attached as an advisor to units of the ARVN ((Army of the Republic of Vietnam). He saw the South Vietnamese Army in action against the Viet Cong and he served as a Battalion advisor and later with a Reconnaissance Company. This book describes his conclusions that despite adverse conditions, and poor equipment and training, the ARVN fought bravely and professionally. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and 7 maps. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312-054033.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 37578More details Price: $12.50 -
REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES 1985 -1986: The Reference Shelf, Volume 58, Number 5.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
New York: The H. W. Wilson Company 1986. First edition - A title in the Reference Shelf - a series which compiles essays, addresses and excerpts from books on current issues and social trends in the United States and other countries. This includes sections on the United Nations at 40, reaffirming the past and shaping the future. Among the contributors are Ronald Reagan, Mario M. Cuomo, David Rockefeller, Henry Cisneros, Vernon Jordan and more. Biographical notes, bibliography. 198 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in blue wrappers with white lettering.
Book ID: 78382More details Price: $20.00 -
TICKET HOME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 2001. A weaving together of World War II and the present day in a moving tale of love, loss and family.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18962More details Price: $12.00