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Lot 180
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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$819
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O’BRIEN, Tim (b. 1946). If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1973.
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards (some minor staining); publisher’s printed dust jacket (a few minor chips to edges).
FIRST EDITION OF O’BRIEN’S FIRST BOOK, third printing, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, with the “$5.95” price on the front flap and the "0373" code on the rear flap. SIGNED TWICE BY O’BRIEN, once on the title-page and once on the dust jacket front flap verso. If I Die in a Combat Zone is the autobiographical memoir about O’Brien’s experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam Warm and was praised as "the single greatest piece of work to come out of Vietnam" by the Washington Star.