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KONTUM DIARY: Captured Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Arlington, TX: The Summit Publishing Group, (1996) dj. Hardcover - Still tormented by memories of the Vietnam war, twenty years later, Reed discovers the papers of a fallen North Vietnamese officer in an old footlocker, and sets off on a journey to return the writings to the officer's family only to find out that the officer is still alive. Foreword by General William C. Westmoreland, Photographs, English translations of the officer's letters, xv, 198 pp plus map. ISBN: 1-56530-2052.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59882More details Price: $16.50 -
BUFFALO AFTERNOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel of the Vietnam War which depicts "the ways men become brutalized by carnage, and sometimes immobilized by pity. [It] conveys the senselessness of it all; the fatuity of the top command, the knowledge of the men that they were fighting an unjust, unwinnable war. Schaeffer builds slowly, always careful to show wellsprings of character, following Pete as he returns home to endure the double penalty of post-combat psychosis and the hostility of many Americans toward Vietnam veterans. . . a tale of almost unmitigated sorrow, it is also an authentic testament to a tragedy of our times." 535 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79129More details Price: $20.00 -
JOURNALS 1952 - 2000.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 51556More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WHEREWITHAL: A Novel in Verse.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - A novel in verse by this Pulitzer prize winning poet. It tells the story of "a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mothers diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941.. . it is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war." 177 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 78029More details Price: $21.50 -
THE AMERICANS: A Conflict of Creed and Reality.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "critical but sympathetic analysis by an outsider" - this exiled South African writer and journalist - of US society during the 1960s: an era of dissent and insurrection, divisions over the war in Vietnam, contradiction between great wealth and great poverty, the disintegration of Ameircan cities, racial conflict., and more. Includes notes, index. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-670-590584.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 40783More details Price: $16.00 -
DECOYS AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
Lewiston ID: Confluence Press, Inc. / Lewis-Clark State College, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A volume in The Confluence Press Short Fiction Series. The first book by this Vietnam veteran, a collection of nine short stories which ."evoke a variety of moods from a variety of characters: a Vietnam Vet hunting in a duckblind; the anxious wife of a helicopter pilot; a guilt-ridden Chicano lawyer on vacation in Mexico; a retired boxer; a Basque rancher. . . .". Dustjacket praise by Tim O'Brien, Robert Houston and others. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-917652-533.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51617More details Price: $24.00 -
ARMORED COMBAT IN VIETNAM.
Edition: Hardcover.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1980.) dj. Hardcover - A comprehensive history and analysis of tank and mechanized infantry battalions used in the Vietnam War, in an area where tanks were once considered impractical. Includes a foreword by Brigadier General James C. Pennington and several appendices. Illustrated with many black and white photographs,17 maps and 6 diagrams. Glossary and index. 250 pp,. ISBN: 0-672-526735.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (general edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 43197More details Price: $15.00 -
HARD MEN HUMBLE: Vietnam Veterans Who Wouldn't Come Home.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Free Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of "twenty Vietnam veterans who have remained or returned to Southeast Asia to live amid the battlefields of their youth, seeking redemption and refusing to return to a nation that cannot accept the sacrifices they made.. some were military heroes . . . some questioned or condemned the war . . . others were moved to atone for the war by charity." xii, 227 pp. ISBN: 0-684842645.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 85858More details Price: $18.50 -
YELLOW RAIN: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86008More details Price: $40.00 -
DOWN SAND MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008). First edition - The author's first book for young readers, set in a small town in 1966, one which deals with issues like race and segregation, the reality of the Vietnam War, abuse, sexuality and even death, in a thoughtful and affecting way. 327 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65126More details Price: $14.50 -
SOUVENIRS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer - a novel which tells the story of Elaine Collier, an antiques restorer, who is hired by a wealthy man to eradicate from the family possessions all traces of his son's existence - a son who was killed in the Vietnam War - and in doing so, she has to confront her own and her mother's past. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "a truly rare book" and with a brief handwritten note laid in and signed simply "Walter." Review copy with publisher's material. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-394516621.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82688More details Price: $50.00