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  • THE INLAND ISLAND by Johnson, Josephine W.
    Johnson, Josephine W.
    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: 31722
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  • LONG TIME PASSING. by Jones, Adrienne.
    Jones, Adrienne.
    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: 83920
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  • CRACKER! THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM. by Kadohata, Cynthia.
    Kadohata, Cynthia.
    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: 53278
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  • DRAGONFIRE. by Kaplan, Andrew.
    Kaplan, Andrew.
    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: 70515
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  • OVER THE EDGE. by Kaplan, Marc Paul.
    Kaplan, Marc Paul.
    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: 63320
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  • MARBLE MOUNTAIN. by Karlin, Wayne,
    Karlin, Wayne,
    MARBLE MOUNTAIN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (2008.). First edition - From the back cover: "Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, "Marble Mountain" explores the lasting damages of war to the soldiers who fought on both sides, to their families, and to the displaced and wounded children born during their parents' conflict. Kiet and her adoptive father, Alex Hallam - a Vietnam veteran working out his own tormented past through his passion for sculpting - travel to Vietnam." Marble Mountain is a…

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    Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (2008.). First edition - From the back cover: "Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, "Marble Mountain" explores the lasting damages of war to the soldiers who fought on both sides, to their families, and to the displaced and wounded children born during their parents' conflict. Kiet and her adoptive father, Alex Hallam - a Vietnam veteran working out his own tormented past through his passion for sculpting - travel to Vietnam." Marble Mountain is a formation near Danang that is famous for its stone carvers and cave shrines. Cover praise from Maxine Hong Kingston. Author's note. 262 pp. ISBN: 1931896437.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.

    Book ID: 47696
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  • MARBLE MOUNTAIN. by Karlin, Wayne,
    Karlin, Wayne,
    MARBLE MOUNTAIN.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.

    Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (2008.). First edition - From the back cover: "Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, "Marble Mountain" explores the lasting damages of war to the soldiers who fought on both sides, to their families, and to the displaced and wounded children born during their parents' conflict. Kiet and her adoptive father, Alex Hallam - a Vietnam veteran working out his own tormented past through his passion for sculpting - travel to Vietnam." Marble Mountain is a…

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    Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (2008.). First edition - From the back cover: "Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and Vietnam, and written from the perspective of both Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, "Marble Mountain" explores the lasting damages of war to the soldiers who fought on both sides, to their families, and to the displaced and wounded children born during their parents' conflict. Kiet and her adoptive father, Alex Hallam - a Vietnam veteran working out his own tormented past through his passion for sculpting - travel to Vietnam." Marble Mountain is a formation near Danang that is famous for its stone carvers and cave shrines. Cover praise from Maxine Hong Kingston. Author's note. 262 pp. ISBN: 1931896437.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.

    Book ID: 47695
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  • Karlin, Wayne
    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: 23882
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  • SHALLOW GRAVES: Two Women and Vietnam. by Larsen, Wendy Wilder, and Tran Thi Nga.
    Larsen, Wendy Wilder, and Tran Thi Nga.
    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: 41864
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  • THE FREEING OF THE DUST. by Levertov, Denise.
    Levertov, Denise.
    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: 84644
    Keywords: Poetry, the 60s, vietnam war
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  • "READING THE WIND" The Literature of the Vietnam War. An Interpretive Critique with a Bibliographic Commentary. by Lomperis, Timothy J.; John Clark Pratt
    Lomperis, Timothy J.; John Clark Pratt
    "READING THE WIND" The Literature of the Vietnam War. An Interpretive Critique with a Bibliographic Commentary.

    Edition: First printing.

    Durham: The Asia Society / Duke University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - "On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literatureincluding novels, personal accounts, and oral histories which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home." The result is a useful, although not comprehensive guide to the published literature. Includes a bibliographic commentary by John Clark…

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    Durham: The Asia Society / Duke University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - "On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literatureincluding novels, personal accounts, and oral histories which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home." The result is a useful, although not comprehensive guide to the published literature. Includes a bibliographic commentary by John Clark Pratt, an index to this commentary, bibliography, list of seminar participants, conference program, and index. xii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-822307057.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 67580
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  • VIETNAM: TEN YEARS AFTER: The Reference Shelf, Volume 58, Number 2. by Long, Robert Emme, editor.
    Long, Robert Emme, editor.
    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: 78380
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  • MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War. by Marlantes, Karl.
    Marlantes, Karl.
    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: 67955
    Keywords: Military, vietnam war
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  • Marshall, Kathryn.
    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: 37675
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  • IN COUNTRY. by Mason, Bobbie Ann
    Mason, Bobbie Ann
    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: 9401
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  • ZOMBIE JAMBOREE. by Merkin, Robert.
    Merkin, Robert.
    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: 69254
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  • FALLEN ANGELS. by Myers, Walter Dean.
    Myers, Walter Dean.
    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: 57040
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  • THE GREATEST: MUHAMMAD ALI. by Myers, Walter Dean.
    Myers, Walter Dean.
    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: 41247
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  • WAR AT HOME. by Nelscott, Kris.
    Nelscott, Kris.
    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: 79299
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  • AMERICAN BLOOD. by Nichols, John.
    Nichols, John.
    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: 50008
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  • Nichols, John.
    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: 17264
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  • Nichols, John.
    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: 13350
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  • FOR ROUENNA. by Nunez, Sigrid.
    Nunez, Sigrid.
    FOR ROUENNA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001). First edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman in the Vietnam War. "'After my first book was published, I received some letters.' So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters the narrator receives is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, recalling their old connection and asking if they can meet.Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001). First edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman in the Vietnam War. "'After my first book was published, I received some letters.' So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters the narrator receives is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, recalling their old connection and asking if they can meet.Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It is only later, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, that the narrator is drawn to write about her friend - and her friend's war." 230 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88811
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  • GOING AFTER CACCIATO. by O'Brien, Tim.
    O'Brien, Tim.
    GOING AFTER CACCIATO.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, (1978). Hardcover - The author's third novel, considered one of the best ever written about the war in Vietnam and how it affected the men who fought there. "Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden discussion to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable…

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    New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, (1978). Hardcover - The author's third novel, considered one of the best ever written about the war in Vietnam and how it affected the men who fought there. "Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden discussion to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of the battle, 'Going After Cacciato' stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all."
    338 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by M. S. Chiang. ISBN: 0-440029481.

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    Condition: Near fine in teal cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some short edge tears).

    Book ID: 88386
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  • THE NAMES OF THE DEAD. by O'Nan, Stewart.
    O'Nan, Stewart.
    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: 43401
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  • THE GIVEN WORLD. by Palaia, Marian.
    Palaia, Marian.
    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: 77739
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  • THE GIVEN WORLD. by Palaia, Marian.
    Palaia, Marian.
    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: 66441
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  • Parrish, Robert D.
    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: 37578
    Keywords: asia, Military, vietnam war
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  • REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES 1985 -1986: The Reference Shelf, Volume 58, Number 5. by Peterson, Owen, editor.
    Peterson, Owen, editor.
    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: 78382
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  • Pratt, James Michael.
    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: 18962
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