E-list # 129

Chicago, Grace Lutheran Church, 1971. Handbill announcement for a meeting, together with a 3-page reprint of the Joan Baez article on pacifism, "What Would You Do If?" from her book Daybreak. The handbill announces the date and time of the meeting and also the subjects on the agenda. The Baez reprint comprises a dialogue between a self-proclaimed pacifist and an inquisitor who creates hypothetical scenarios to challenge the pacifist's moral stance. Three pages total, folded in half; minor edge sunning and edge wear; very good. Scarce antiwar ephemera. [#029827] SOLD

NY, Workman, (1970). Elaborate parody prospectus, offering shares in the Vietnam war and suggesting what a good investment such shares would be: "The Company's advertising is carried on domestically by its Chief Executive Officer on network television at prime time, free of charge...Since statements made by the management are not subjct [sic] to standards of truth imposed on other advertisers...the Company believes that it will always be able to obtain its objectives through advertising and public relations campaign." Other sections detail the "Risk Factors": "The Company has been actively engaged in business for over six years and operations to date have not been profitable." A thorough parody, tinged with the cynicism and bitterness that characterized the polarized debate on the war at that point in time. 16 pages; folded once vertically, by design; the word "Read" in pencil on the front; else fine in stapled wrappers. [#029842] SOLD

(NY), (Guardian), (1969). A special supplement on U.S. genocide in Vietnam, published by The Guardian newsweekly, the largest independent radical weekly in the U.S. at that time. Eight pages, with a long piece on the My Lai (Song My) massacre by the controversial radical newsman Wilfred Burchett; a commentary on Song My by the Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government, which was engaging in peace negotiations with the U.S. in Paris at the time; an excerpt from a 1967 statement "On Genocide" by French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre; a piece on the massacre by Donald Duncan, a former U.S. Green Beret, and more. Newsprint, with small corner chips; near fine. Powerful anti-American and antiwar polemic. Uncommon: OCLC lists three copies. [#029831] SOLD

NY, Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1967. A broadside of a letter to the editor first printed in the Akron Beacon Journal on March 27, 1967. "A G.I.'s Dad" wrote to the Journal with tales of atrocity excerpted from his son's letter home. The father's preface to the letter explains that his son enlisted in the Army and asked to be sent to Vietnam because he backed the government's strong policy toward the war. The harrowing and horrifying tale that follows -- beginning with "Dear Mom and Dad: Today we went on a mission and I'm not very proud of myself, my friends or my country..." -- is a classic case of the kind of experience that radicalized the American middle class against the war, not to mention helping to create a generation of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. Folded in thirds; worn at the edges and folds and foxed on the verso; a good copy. OCLC locates one copy printed by a different antiwar group than this one, and no copies of this issue. [#029836] SOLD

c. 1987-1988. Anderson's own collection of reviews of his first book, the powerful Vietnam novel Sympathy for the Devil, together with articles by him and about him from about the same time period. Roughly 14 different pieces, all photocopies, but five of them have holographic comments by Anderson on them. Includes copies of both Gustav Hasford's and Harry Crews's submissions for publicity blurbs for Sympathy for the Devil. Anderson has annotated Hasford's with news of Hasford's subsequent memorial service, and signed the annotation in 1993. All items fine. [#031323] SOLD

(Chicago), (n.p.), (1972). Vol. 120, No. 6. An issue of Poetry magazine, dedicated to antiwar poems. Contributors include Richard Hugo, Tom Disch, James Schuyler, William Stafford, Philip Levine, and others. Very good. [#010319] SOLD

[Washington, DC], [U.S. Air Force Lithograph Series], [1985]. Number 36 in the U.S. Airforce Lithograph Series. Two images of an American aviator with a stylized map of Vietnam between the two. In the image on the left, the flyer is in uniform; on the right he is dressed in the garb of a POW. "I am an American fighting man" are the first words to the Code of Conduct for the U.S. Fighting Man. Much of that code of conduct concerns what his behavior will be if he becomes a prisoner of war. Number 201 of 500 copies signed by the artist, Jay Ashurst. The artist's printed signature is on the lithograph; the numbered edition has the actual signature in addition. This copy is also signed by four high-profile Vietnam POWs: Brigadier General Robinson "Robbie" Risner, USAF; Colonel Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, USAF; Captain Eugene "Red" McDaniel, USN; and Colonel Warren "Bob" Lilly, USAF. All four were aviators who were shot down and captured and served long terms in North Vietnamese prisons -- three of them over seven years, the fourth just under six. Despite the relatively large limitation, we have found little evidence of copies being available; a copy such as this, signed by four prominent, high-ranking former POWs, is by all appearances exceedingly scarce. The provenance and the names of the POWs have been detailed on the verso. 16" x 20". Very small, shallow stain top margin, one nick along bottom edge, else fine, in original mailing envelope that now bears a bookseller's mailing label. [#031529] $565

Buenos Aires, Goyanarte, (1956). A novel based on the US-backed overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954 -- a Cold War-related move against a left-leaning nationalist government that did much to set the stage for the next three decades of tensions between the U.S. and the various Central American republics. Asturias, for his open criticism of Yanqui interventionism, was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966 -- the highest such honor conferred in the old U.S.S.R. The following year--in what may be construed as a battle for the hearts and minds of his constituency -- he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the West's highest international honor. A major novel by one of the most important writers of the postwar era, whose ability to integrate indigenous myths and social protest was a major accomplishment that helped shape the contemporary Latin American novel. Abrasions to front flyleaf and front cover; ink marks to three pages of text; some wear to top edge and creasing to spine; still a respectable copy in self-wraps. [#007850] $265

(San Francisco), City Lights Books, (1970). The first book edition of this powerful anti-war poem, which was widely distributed in a number of formats at the height of the protests against the Vietnam War. Owner name. Near fine in wrappers. [#017564] SOLD

1970. A privately distributed assemblage of the poet's verse from 1967-1970. Brutus, an exiled South African poet-activist, who had spent time in the cell next to Nelson Mandela on Robben Island and was partly responsible for South Africa being banned from the 1964 Olympics -- a sanction that helped create the strategy that eventually defeated apartheid -- was a visiting lecturer in the English Department at the University of Denver in 1970, and he circulated these 25 poems as "something personal to give to the people who have been so kind to me here...But also there is an immediacy about some of my verse...I feel strongly just now that to justify my continuing to write verse, it needs to be doing something." [As quoted in a cover letter to this collection provided by Karen C. Chapman, editor, the previous year, of Dennis Brutus: Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison]. In other words, these poems represent Brutus' attempt, even while in exile, to keep his poetry relevant, and to continue in his role as an activist and agitator. Inscribed by Brutus: "Bob & Elizabeth Richardson. In appreciation, sincerely, Dennis Brutus, March, 1970." Also dated and initialed by Brutus, "5.14 DB." Loose sheets, with the endsheets being stationery with the watermark of the University of Denver. Chapman's cover sheet also provides a biographical sketch of Brutus. Faint sunning to the pages; else fine, and in the original clear acetate folder. We can find no evidence of any other copy of this collection surviving; a virtually unique collection of typescript poetry by a major figure in both world poetry and, in particular, the anti-apartheid movement among South African artists. A literary footnote: Robert Richardson later married Annie Dillard, a relationship engendered by her writing him a fan letter regarding his 1986 book on Henry Thoreau. [#030102] SOLD

NY, QCC Art Gallery, (2010). The catalog of an exhibition of Budnik's Civil Rights-era photographs. Inscribed by Budnik to the author Peter Matthiessen and his wife, "with all loving wishes and Peace to infinity." A bit of soiling on the rear cover; near fine in self-wrappers. Together with a copy of Theos Bernard's Penthouse of the Gods [Scribner's, 1939; heavily mottled and lacking dust jacket, front flyleaf excised], with Budnik's ownership signature and an undated autograph note signed laid in to Matthiessen, ("Here's 'that' book - rather amazing story"), saying he's headed to South America, and commenting on the death of what appears to be a mutual friend. Written on the back of a promotional card for a Book Search service; fine. [#031661] $350

(n.p.), (Time/Life), (1972). A book of photographs, many of them of Vietnam, by a Time-Life photographer who was killed in Vietnam. This is the issue with the publisher named on the spine. Mild foxing to spine; else fine in a fine slipcase. [#028601] SOLD

1982. A typed letter signed by Butler to poet Tom Clark, regarding Clark's review. In 1981, Butler, who would later win the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, published his first book, The Alleys of Eden. It was reviewed by Clark in the February 11, 1982 Los Angeles Times, with the headline "Vietnamization of a Deserter's Mind." On May 12, Butler wrote to Clark, saying, in part: "I have received twenty major reviews of the book but none of them was more sensitive or insightful than yours. The best literary criticism actually explains an author to himself. That's what your review did. I understand my own book better after reading your review and I want to thank you for that." The letter is signed "Bob Butler." Also included here is Clark's original, 3-page manuscript review, signed by Clark: "...Desertion, Butler seems to say, is an inevitable act, made necessary by the human state. Every small movement is an abandonment of the past, with death looming over everything as the greatest desertion of all..." Clark's review makes it clear that Butler's protagonist -- an Army intelligence officer who ends up deserting out of self-disgust over his involvement in the torture and death of a Viet Cong prisoner -- is an analogue for the larger society, which deserted both Vietnam and those who fought there, leaving both the Vietnamese and the veterans as "displaced persons," in both countries. Clark's review is penned on the back of copies from a book about Celine and folded in half; near fine. A photocopy of the published review is included. Butler's letter is folded for mailing; else fine in a near fine envelope. With a copy of Alleys of Eden [NY: Horizon (1981)], which is fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a short edge tear. An insightful review of one of the best novels to come out of the Vietnam war, and the author's appreciative response. [#024022] $1,500

(Woodbridge), Viet Nam Generation & Burning Cities Press, (1994). White Noise Poetry Series #1, a volume of poems and short prose pieces about the Vietnam War, written by a Vietnam vet who declares that he "takes pride in having been, and continues to be, a Vietnam Veteran Against the War." VVAW was a group of veterans who banded together to express opposition to the war and later to hold a public investigation into atrocities and war crimes in Vietnam. Inscribed by the author, "I wish you peace." Owner name inside front cover; fine in wrappers, with glossary of names and terms laid in. Uncommon. [#029735] SOLD

London, Bachman & Turner, (1973). His first book, a satirical novel that was only published in England. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. [#028617] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1972). The uncorrected proof copy of Ellsberg's account of his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 to the New York Times, an illegal act of civil disobedience for which he was charged with a number of felonies under the Espionage Act of 1917 and became a target of President Richard Nixon; Ellsberg was acquitted a year after this book came out because of government malfeasance in the case against him. These are historical papers, heavily colored by the author's personal experience as a participant in, and an observer and critic of, policy making regarding the U.S. role in Southeast Asia. Realizing, as a result of his work for the RAND Corporation, a policy "think tank," that the government had secretly engaged in an ongoing series of illegal and immoral acts in the conduct of the Vietnam war, Ellsberg first copied 7000 pages of documents and gave them to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When no action resulted from that, he gave the papers to the Times, precipitating a scandal and his own arrest. Such whistle blowers as Julian Assange of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who exposed the widespread secret data collection done by that agency, have followed in Ellsberg's footsteps. This copy is signed by the author on the front cover. Tall, fragile, padbound proofs; rear cover present but detached; front cover detaching; thus a good copy. [#028629] SOLD

(NY), Avon, (1976). Poems, written as epitaphs to the dead of an imaginary company. Simple, direct, and moving. Published as a paperback original by the most literary of the mass-market publishers, and later reprinted in a trade paperback by Permanent Press. Several of the poems were included in the anthology Unaccustomed Mercy, but the complete text is difficult to find in any edition and scarce in the true first. This copy is inscribed by Floyd to the poet Ai, winner of the National Book Award. Slight edge and corner rubbing; near fine in wrappers. One of the books on our list of the 25 Best Book on the Vietnam War. [#028636] SOLD

Athens, University of Georgia Press, (1993). Bound galleys of this critical study of poetry by Vietnam veterans, in which Gotera analyzes poems from a number of the important anthologies of Vietnam war poetry, as well as several individual author's collections. Long, oblong sheets, printed on rectos only. Comb-bound. Near fine in plain cardstock covers. Unusual format, suggesting few were done. [#030868] SOLD

NY, Macmillan, (1971). The rare hardcover issue (thought to number 200 copies) of this classic book of photojournalism of the Vietnam war, which focused on the effects of the war on both participants and victims rather than the fighting itself. Welsh Magnum photographer Griffiths was one of the first to capture the true horror of the Vietnam war, both in its catastrophic impact on the civilian population of the impoverished agricultural nation of Vietnam and in its perversion of American values in the dehumanizing power and scale of the modern industrial war machine, and to effectively convey those ideas and images to an American audience, helping to change the general consensus view of the war by Americans. This is an ex-library copy, as evidenced by a bookplate on the front flyleaf (stamped "Withdrawn") and a circulation list and card pocket on the rear flyleaf. The pastedowns show some evidence of the removal of a previous jacket protector, under flaps. Some play in the binding, only a very good copy but in a surprisingly fine dust jacket. The hardcover is very scarce: at this moment in publishing history, "trade paperbacks" were a novel idea, able to be marketed to a younger and more impecunious audience than hardcover books, and several publishers opted to limit hardcover publication numbers of new titles in order to print more softcovers, priced lower, and aimed at college students and other young people. The Collier edition of this title is the Macmillan softcover that was issued simultaneously, and turns up many times more often than the hardcover does. In all likelihood, the hardcovers were largely targeted to the library market, which would explain the provenance of this copy. [#031532] SOLD

London, Hutchinson, (1992). A post-World War II alternate history novel in which Germany won the Second World War. A surprise bestseller and critically acclaimed, this was the author's first work of fiction after a number of nonfiction books. Basis for an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie. This is the advance reading copy in pictorial wrappers, marked "an uncorrected proof from Hutchinson." A bit of rubbing to lower rear edge and dustiness to lower edge of text block; otherwise fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. With a faux 1964 newspaper "front page" laid in, postponing the publication of Fatherland from 1964 to 1992, due to the sensitive nature of the material. [#029660] SOLD

NY, Bantam, (1990). The uncorrected proof copy of his second novel, a sequel to The Short-Timers, with several of the same characters, including the title character. Tiny white specks to rear (red) panel; else fine in wrappers. [#000342] SOLD

San Francisco, City Lights, (1987). Velo-bound page proofs of these stories by women from all over the world about their experiences with war, some in Vietnam, others reaching back prior to World War I or forward to Central America in the 1980s. A powerful collection, published by City Lights and reprinted in 2003 by a university press. Plain cardstock covers. Plastic binding separating at ends. Near fine. Presumably only a very small number would have been printed in this format. [#030869] SOLD

Seattle, Madrona, 1981. A novel of the antiwar movement and its effect on the lives of the two main characters. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Together with two pieces of correspondence from Hazzard to the recipient: an autograph postcard signed and an autograph letter signed, each from 1982. The postcard is of Bath, and is a small travel log, complete with mention of two plays seen enroute, as well as a visit to an agent. The letter, written from back in Massachusetts, thanks her friend for hospitality while in New Haven (where she apparently saw an O'Neill play) and talks of the possibility of a play of hers being done at Yale. The card and letter have been stapled together in one corner and are near fine. The book is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#031397] SOLD

NY, Holt, (1993). His fourth novel, about a Vietnam vet who owns a bar in Bangkok, and which treats the MIA issue at some length. Inscribed by Karlin to the author Robert Stone, "with admiration," a nice association: Stone's Vietnam-related novel Dog Soldiers won the National Book Award. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a vertical crease to the front flap. [#028660] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. The uncorrected proof copy of the revised second edition of his first book, here with a new introduction (titled "Afterward") by the author. Signed by Kosinski on the title page, and additionally inscribed by him on the first blank: "For ___ and ___ - ten years after,/ affectionately, Jerzy/ Feb 1976." Light bump to spine base, else fine in wrappers. His powerful -- and later controversial -- first novel, of the Holocaust. Part of the controversy around this book stemmed from Kosinski's originally implying that it was an autobiographical novel, and the experiences of the main character -- a gypsy child wandering around Eastern Europe during the war -- were based on his own experiences. After publication he refrained from making such claims publicly, but even in the new introduction here, ten years after the original publication, he strongly implies that his childhood experiences in the war were of the devastating variety that the book's protagonist underwent. The Painted Bird, despite all the controversy surrounding it, was named by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the top 100 novels from 1923-2005. Kosinski, hounded by controversy and scandal, committed suicide in 1991 at the age of 57. An uncommon proof, especially warmly inscribed. [#032301] SOLD

[Burbank], Burbank Studios, 1983. Second draft screenplay, dated May 1, 1983. Le Carre's novel of the Arab-Israeli conflict, particularly the covert aspects of terrorist and anti-terrorist activities on fronts often far-removed from the Middle East itself, was filmed by George Roy Hill and starred Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski. Mandel's screenplay was nominated for an Edgar Award. Claspbound photocopied sheets in cardstock Burbank Studio "Pan Arts" covers. Slight foxing to the upper edge of the rear wrapper; one page has a couple of pencil marks. Near fine. [#030749] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1975). The uncorrected proof copy of his first novel, winner of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award. Set in Vietnam in 1964 among a group of Green Beret advisors in a small Vietnamese hamlet. "Senior Center Library" stamps to all page edges; else fine in wrappers. The published price was changed from the price indicated on the proof. Not a proof we have seen often. [#010101] SOLD

(Hampton), Hampton House, 1971. Antiwar poetry illustrated by photographs from Wide World Photos of Vietnam war victims. Fine in stapled wrappers. Polemical, damning poetry ("...we who damn/and desecrate our country's name/with other patriots' blood...") Uncommon. [#010361] $20

London, Cassell, [1932]. The uncorrected proof copy of Mackenzie's suppressed memoir of his time working for MI6, the British intelligence service, during WWI; the book was withdrawn on the day of publication as a violation of the Official Secrets Act. and Mackenzie was prosecuted and fined. In the book he revealed the existence of the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) and was critical of particular individuals. He was later placed on MI5's watch list, and his activities were monitored by the British domestic intelligence service. An edited version of Greek Memories was published in 1939. Mackenzie was knighted in 1952. Spine slant; initials to rear cover; staining and bookstore (?) label to front cover; good in wrappers. Few copies of the 1932 edition survived; proof copies are especially uncommon. [#027408] SOLD

Berkeley/NY, El Leon Literary Arts/Atlantic Monthly, (2010). The advance reading copy (labeled "Uncorrected Proof") of the first El Leon/Atlantic Monthly edition of his first novel, after an initial El Leon print run of 1200 that was bought up by Atlantic Monthly when they agreed to a 60,000 copy print run. Signed by the author. This is the later state advance reading copy, with the Matterhorn title. There was an earlier state advance reading copy with the title Some Desperate Glory: most of those were destroyed. Fine in pictorial wrappers. [#029016] SOLD

NY, Dial, 1972. A novel of a family with one adopted son, who serves in the Peace Corps in the years before the escalation in Vietnam, and another son who is killed in Vietnam. Inscribed by the author in 1996: "For ____ ____/ for reminding me that/ I was once young/ enough to write this/ funny little book --/ The most fun I've/ ever had -- / Warmest regards/ Jim Morrison." Fine in a near fine, spine and edge-sunned dust jacket with a couple of tiny edge tears. Laid in is a photograph of the Morrison family, annotated on the verso by Morrison. [#028684] SOLD

(NY), (Viking), (2006). Two volumes: signed copies of both the advance reading copy and the first printing of the first edition. The first edition is signed by Mortenson; the advance reading copy is signed by both Mortenson and David Relin. Textual differences exist between the advance copy and the first edition. An inspirational, then infamous, account of Mortenson's quest to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan in response to kindnesses bestowed on him by locals while he was lost in Pakistan after an unsuccessful ascent of K2, a quest that led to his founding the Central Asia Institute and to an ongoing effort that has resulted in the building of hundreds of schools. The hardcover edition sold only 20,000 copies; the paperback sold over four million copies in more than 40 countries and stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for more than four years, until, in 2011, author Jon Krakauer revealed on 60 Minutes that Mortenson and Relin had taken liberties with the narrative and, in Mortenson's case, liberties with his financial relationship to the Central Asia Institute. The first edition is signed by Mortenson, who has added the word "Peace!" The advance reading copy is signed by Mortenson and by Relin, who at one point claimed sole authorship of the book, saying it was published with Mortenson as co-author over his objections. Relin committed suicide the year after the controversy broke. The advance reading copy has a mild corner tap and slight cover splaying and is very near fine. The first edition is fine in a fine dust jacket, with a ticket and a program for a Mortenson reading (of the sequel, Stones Into Schools) laid in. Each book has a custom clamshell case. A bestselling story of a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated attempt to achieve peace through education, flawed only by its being more inspirational than true. Note: proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Room To Read, an unassociated organization of similar vision. [#032663] SOLD

(NY), Delacorte, (1978). His third book, a magical realist novel about an American soldier in Vietnam who decides to walk away from the war and go to Paris overland. Winner of the National Book Award. With marginal notes by Geoffrey Wolff, to whom this copy belonged. Many of the notes indicate where passages remind Wolff of other books, authors or characters, e.g. "Combat Zone," "Yossarian," and, once, "Toni Morrison." Wolff has also listed (p. 32), grades on the book based on its review by other authors and in other periodicals. Mottled cloth; very good in a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. [#028985] SOLD

[Santa Barbara], Neville, [1980]. The galley sheets of O'Brien's first limited edition, which contains an introduction and a chapter that was excised from Going After Cacciato and later appeared, in a much reworked version, in The Things They Carried. O'Brien won the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, a magical-realist novel of the Vietnam war, while The Things They Carried is widely considered to be one of the best, if not the best, of the literary works to have come out of that war and has become part of the canon, by virtue of its inclusion in both high school and college literary reading lists. Eight long galley sheets, plus one duplicate. 7-1/2" x 19". Signed by O'Brien. Fine. Bibliographically interesting in that the galleys contain the typesetting for all the versions of the colophon, thus indicating all those for whom special copies of the publication were created. [#030132] SOLD

1996. Typescripts of O'Nan's screenplay based on Tim O'Brien's National Book Award-winning Vietnam novel. Two clean copies, each signed by O'Nan on the title page. 126 pages each, and in a Kinko's box that is hand-labeled "Going After Cacciato/ 27 August 96/ Original - Top/ Copy - Bottom." The screenplays are fine; the box has two broken corners. This same year, O'Brien provided a jacket blurb for O'Nan's highly regarded Vietnam novel The Names of the Dead. Several years back it was rumored that Cacciato would be filmed, with Nick Cassevetes as director, and with a different screenwriter. For now, we have only O'Nan's vision. [#029952] SOLD

(Berkeley), (World Without War Council), (1967). Pamphlet printing peace proposals from a number of perspectives, including those that advocate peace through military victory. The editors, however, have selected a number of proposals they believe could be accepted by both sides, including ones by the Secretary General of the United Nations -- U Thant -- as well as by Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, and others. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#010175] SOLD

(Brooklyn), Gallery Association of New York State, 1972. The catalog of selected images from an exhibition of photographs by nine photographers either killed or missing in action in Vietnam: Larry Burrows, Charles Eggleston, Dana Stone, Sean Flynn, Robert Ellison, Henri Huet, Hiromichi Mine, Kent Potter and Kyoiochi Sawada. Oblong stapled wrappers; light creasing and mottling to covers; very good. [#028694] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1971). One of the early P.O.W. accounts, written by a Special Forces Major who was captured by the Viet Cong in 1963 and escaped five years later. Signed by the author. Additionally, this copy is inscribed and annotated by Elizabeth Starkey, a nurse at the 24th Evac. Hospital in Long Binh where Rowe was taken, identified in the text by Rowe as "my special benefactress, a nurse lieutenant colonel." About a dozen pages of the text tell of Rowe's stay at the hospital, and about half of those pages are annotated by Starkey. Inscribed by Starkey on the first blank, with a long paragraph telling her story, in part: "One does not forget Major Rowe once having met him -- a man of great inner strength." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some internal tape-mending. A unique, noteworthy and informative copy of this P.O.W. account; Rowe was later responsible for helping to develop the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) course for American military Special Forces. He was assassinated in 1989 in the Philippines where he was working on counter-insurgency. [#032330] SOLD

NY, Dial Press, 1947. A second printing, but beautifully inscribed by Sandoz: "For Martha Deane: for her appeal, today, that we face reality, and the implications of mankind's obsession with the weapons of self-destruction. Gratefully, Mari Sandoz/ December 9, 1947/ this study of America in three post war periods: Civil War, and World Wars I and II." Sandoz has also written on the front flap: "Theme of book omitted in this blurb. Sorry. MS." "Martha Deane" was the radio persona of Mary Margaret McBride. Front hinge starting; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#024990] SOLD

Colombes/Battle Creek, Cary/Peaceways, (1967). The French edition (bilingual) of this self-published book of protest poetry. Shelley was a Vice Presidential candidate in 1964 on a write-in Peace Ticket. Near fine in wrappers. Laid in is an International Herald Tribune article, dated December 29, 1967, about Shelley's protests of the Vietnam War at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris. [#028826] SOLD

NY, Covici Friede, (1936). A powerful novel of migrant farm workers rising up against landowners. Written at a time when much contemporary fiction was geared toward proletarian aspirations, Steinbeck's novel could have been a mere propaganda piece; instead, it is an exploration of ideals, social protest and social justice, and the relationship of mob behavior to individual values and, as such, still resonates with relevance decades later. Owner signature, cloth dust-soiled and spine-faded, foredge foxed. A good copy only, lacking the rare dust jacket. [#023624] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1974). The uncorrected proof copy of his second novel, winner of the National Book Award and one of the best novels to link the impact of the Vietnam war on American society in the Sixties to the dark side of that era -- the official corruption and the underside of the drug experiences of a generation. This is the second issue proof, in gold-brown wrappers with a publisher's letter to booksellers reproduced on the front cover. Signed by the author. Shallow creases to three corners; near fine in wrappers. [#912822] $500

NY, Fiction, (1973). An excerpt from a novel-in-progress, which turned out to be Dog Soldiers. A bibliographically significant piece, in that this is the only place where Dog Soldiers is identified by the title Skydiver Devoured by Starving Birds. Signed by Stone. Also includes John Lennon, Donald Barthelme, Jerome Charyn, and others. Tall newsprint journal. Fine. [#914689] $125
On Sale: $81

NY, Greenwillow, (1978). His second book published in this country, a story for young adults about a group of young Native Americans, one of whom is drafted to Vietnam. This book was adapted as a play and performed by a touring Native American theater troupe. Inscribed by the author: "To the best looking librarian I've ever met/ Craig Kee Strete." A series of tiny indentations on rear board; near fine in a very good dust jacket with the same tiny dents on the rear panel and with a few modest edge tears. Scarce signed. [#025768] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1967). His controversial third novel, about a black slave uprising in the nineteenth century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket with razor thin shelf wear to the lower edge. [#912844] SOLD

(Chicago), (Macfadden-Bartell), 1969. At the height of the Vietnam War, Thompson visits Edwards Air Force Base and writes a piece about test pilots, contrasting the strait-laced "professionals" of the contemporary Air Force with the daredevil style of the old-time test pilots. September issue. Fine in wrappers. [#030838] SOLD

NY, Trident, (1968). "The story of a young draftee who refuses to fight in a war he cannot believe in." Review copy with photo laid in. Fine in a near fine, modestly edgeworn dust jacket with one small spot of rubbing on the spine. The author, a reporter, wrote most of this book while on assignment in Vietnam. An early novel to have a distinctly antiwar theme. [#010264] SOLD

(NY), (National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee), March and June, 1970. Two issues, heavy on antiwar commentary, the Chicago Seven, Black Panthers, and other cases involving civil rights violations. David Levine caricatures of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon, respectively, on the covers. Slight edge-darkening; else fine. [#029897] SOLD

(Southampton), Student Free Press, (1969). High school underground student newspaper, with rules for demonstrations from SDS, antiwar poems, articles on Acapulco Gold and smoking catnip, a head shop ad (The Freedom Store) and more. Six pages; one corner staple; corner crease; near fine. Scarce 60s ephemera. [#029896] SOLD

1972. Four panoramic panels (constructed from nine individual images) of post-bombing destruction. Only one of the images is labeled, on verso: "Nam Ngan hamlet, Don Soc district, Thanh Hoa province, destroyed by US bombs dropped from B.52's at 2:30 hrs, April 26, 1972." Black and white photographs, mounted on mat board. These were given to members of a U.S. peace contingent visiting Hanoi in late October 1972, just before the Presidential election that year, in hopes that their content would be publicized in the U.S. upon their return. The high-profile entourage of women consisted of Jane Hart, wife of Senator Philip Hart; the poet Denise Levertov; and the novelist Muriel Ruykeyser. They met with the Vietnam Committee for Solidarity with the American People and the Vietnam Women's Union. Richard Nixon, running on a "Peace With Honor" platform, won the election in a landslide over George McGovern, who ran as an explicitly antiwar candidate. The peace delegation had little but symbolic impact: it reiterated, as had been the case for years, that the bulk of the artistic community in the U.S. was soundly antiwar, and it showed -- as had also been the case for some time -- that the antiwar movement now included part of the mainstream of American life, in this case represented by a moderate Senator's wife. Three are 20" x 7"; one is roughly 26" x 6". Near fine. In our experience, unique. [#031535] $1,500

San Francisco, Self-published, 1965. A handbill advocating the celebration of "Gentle Thursday," March 25, 1965, as a work-free, commerce-free day of kindness and calmness in the pursuit of "peace & quiet & liberty for all." This handbill -- in effect, a Whalen broadside -- is a scarce, ephemeral item, created by the author and reproducing his calligraphic writing. 8-1/2" x 11"; fine. [#019388] SOLD

NY, Norton, (2001). An investigation into "Gulf war syndrome," a mysterious series of illnesses that afflicted veterans of the first Gulf war. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen], "with love from your godson." Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, marred only by staining on the verso. [#032538] SOLD

NY, Alicat Bookshop Press, 1948. Alicat Chapbooks No. XII. Willeford's first book, a collection of poems, preceded only by a group of poems in broadside format, issued as part of another Alicat Press collection. These poems contain the only descriptions Willeford ever committed to writing of his experience in World War II, which, by the evidence included here and by comments he made to others about them, were apparently horrific. Acidic paper browning with age and some wear to spine; otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. [#006648] SOLD

(London), Macgibbon & Kee, (1966). The first British edition of this early novel of combat in Vietnam, one which anticipates the many antiwar novels that emerged more than a decade later, after the war was lost. This novel, which "chronicles the swift, brutal education of a young American soldier in Vietnam," is one of the earliest novels to have an overwhelmingly antiwar message. Later such books were common, but at the time this was published, the message was politically unpopular and the U.S. publication of this book was relegated to a small publisher (Apocalypse in Los Angeles) which may have existed only to do this one book. Small owner label on front flyleaf; corners and edges bumped; very good in like dust jacket. [#028713] SOLD

Detroit, Artists' Workshop, 1965. Antiwar poetry inspired by a newspaper story about a GI, decorated for valor, who asked a correspondent to write about his dead buddies. The poem is written in the voices of his sixteen dead comrades. The newspaper articles inspiring it are reprinted on the covers, which were designed by John Sinclair, later a noted figure in the antiwar movement and the counterculture. Acidic pages heavily browned; covers splitting at spine. A good copy only of a scarce and fragile item: originally done in an edition of 500, few seem to have survived. [#028719] SOLD