[Rarebooks] FS: Tim O'Brien's THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: Proof, Limited, Trade, price reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Wed Mar 9 09:00:38 EST 2011


1.O'BRIEN, Tim. *THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. *Franklin Center, PA: Franklin 
Library, 1990. First Edition. Decorated leather with a gilt design of a 
soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with 
a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an 
introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the 
author. A superb book. Fine. $150.00

Price reduced:    Was $150   Now  $100:

2.O'BRIEN, Tim. *THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. *New York: Houghton Mifflin, 
1990. First Edition. First Trade Edition after the Franklin Library 
edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of the 
Vietnam conflict. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper. $100.00

Price reduced:    Was $200   Now  $150:

3.O'BRIEN, Tim. *THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. *New York: Houghton Mifflin, 
1990. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps printed in red. 
The printed publication date of February 1990 on the first page has been 
neatly crossed out and March 28 has been written in red above it. Fine. 
$150.00

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4.O'BRIEN, Tim. *THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. *Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 
1990. First Edition. First Trade Edition after the Franklin Library 
edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of the 
Vietnam conflict. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine 
first issue dustwrapper. $200.00

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