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 This is an ex-library copy, as evidenced by a bookplate on the front flyleaf (stamped "Withdrawn") and a circulation list and card pocket on the rear flyleaf.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