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Lot 182
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O’BRIEN, Tim (b. 1946). The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990.
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards (very slight staining); publisher’s printed dust jacket (a few short tears to edges not affecting text).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, mis-rolled with some of the cover type on the spine and no design credit on the flap. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY O’BRIEN: “To Ken, All Best, Tim O’Brien.”
[With:] O’BRIEN. Going After Cacciato. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. 8vo. Original cloth (slight toning); publisher’s printed dust jacket (some light marginal chipping). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with “ £4.95” on front flap. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award.