Vietnam War Literature, 12
1165. Caron, D. Phillip. EAGLES AND OTHER PREY. Memphis: Volunteer Publications (1989). A 13-page story and a collection of poems about the war, by a combat veteran. A fine copy in wrappers, in a fine dust jacket. In print at:
1166. Casey, Michael. OBSCENITIES. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1972. The author's first collection, published in the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets. One of the earliest collections of serious poetry by a vet. This is the uncommon hardcover issue, fine in fine dust jacket.
1167. -. Same title, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Owner name, otherwise fine.
1168. -. Same title, third printing. Fine in fine dust jacket.
1169. -. Same title, first mass market paperback edition (NY: Warner 1972). Adds photographs of the war not in earlier editions. Fine in wrappers.
1170. Charters, Samuel. SOME POEMS AGAINST THE WAR. (n.p.): Portents #9, 1968. A single sheet folded, to make a four-page piece of short poems interspersed with peace symbols and other graphics. First-person poems, apparently written by a vet as some describe combat scenes. Fine.
1171. Day, Bonnie. PILGRIMS OF PEACE. (n.p.): (Coach House) (1968). 1/500 copies in wrappers. Contains two poems directly related to the war -- "Exiles of Conscience" about draft evaders in Canada, and "News-Cast on Channel Four" about a scene from Vietnam broadcast on the evening news. A fine copy in self-wrappers.
1172. Duncan, Robert. PASSAGES 22-27 OF THE WAR. (Berkeley): Oyez (1966). Part of an ongoing poem by this Black Mountain poet about the war, published as a small pamphlet. Reproduces a notorious photograph of a U.S. military vehicle dragging a prisoner behind it by a rope tied to his feet.
1173. Eastlake, William. A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES FOR THE REVOLUTION. NY: Grove (1970). Poems and a few short prose pieces by this noted novelist. Near fine copy in a dust jacket with a long tear on front panel at spine fold, and a few ink markings on jacket flaps.
1174. Ehrhart, W.D. TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE HOME TIRED. NY: Thunder's Mouth Press (1984). A collection of new and previously published poems from his earlier books. Many of the poems deal directly with Ehrhart's experience in the war. Fine in wrappers. In print at:
1175. Eshleman, Clayton. WALKS. Caterpillar X. NY: Caterpillar (1967). Poems by Eshleman, the last of his Caterpillar books; uses a small napalmed Vietnamese child as a "glyph" or logo, to protest the war. This is an ambiguous state of the book: there were 300 numbered copies unsigned, and 26 lettered copies signed by the author. This copy is numbered "184" and lettered "E" and is signed by the author on the colophon page. Fine copy.
1176. -. Another copy, number 10 of 300 numbered copies, this being inscribed by the author to Alan Brilliant of the Unicorn Press, in November 1967. A nice association. Fine copy.
1177. Ferlinghetti. WHERE IS VIETNAM? SF: City Lights, 1965. Second printing. A broadside, folded twice. Owner name, otherwise a very good copy.
1178. Huddle, David. STOPPING BY HOME. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith (1988). The first section of the book is a sequence of poems about Vietnam, collectively titled "Tour of Duty." Only issued in wrappers. This is a fine copy. In print at:
1179. Jaeger, Lowell. WAR ON WAR. Logan: Utah State University, 1988. A collection of poems on the war. Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
1180. Johnson, G.P. I WAS FIGHTING FOR PEACE, BUT, LORD, THERE WAS MUCH MORE. Hicksville: Exposition Press (1979). Vanity press publication; poems about the war by a veteran. Fine in dust jacket.
1181. Komunyakaa, Yusef. DIEN CAI DAU. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University (1988). Advance review copy of this collection of poems by a Black veteran originally from Louisiana. This is the issue in wrappers. Fine.
1182. -. Same title, not a review copy. In print at:
1183. Larsen, Wendy Wilder and Tran Thi Nga. SHALLOW GRAVES. Two Women and Vietnam. NY: RH (1986). An unusual book: personal accounts of two women's experiences in Vietnam, written entirely in verse. This copy in fine in a fine dust jacket.
1184. -. Another copy, fine in dust jacket and signed by the authors.
1185. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
1186. Layne, McAvoy. HOW AUDIE MURPHY DIED IN VIETNAM. GC: Anchor, 1973. Paperback original, poetry about the war. An early book of war poetry by a vet, and a scarce title now.
1187. MacBeth, George. THE BAMBOO NIGHTINGALE. A Funeral Song to America for Her Negro Dead in Vietnam. Surrey: Sceptre, 1970. A rice-paper broadside, folded into self-wrappers. Of a total edition of 150 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine.
1188. -. Same title, one of 100 unsigned numbered copies. Small crease otherwise fine.
1189. Mason, Steve. JOHNNY'S SONG. NY: Bantam (1986). Advance reading copy in printed wrappers. the first attempt, it would seem, at making Vietnam war poetry into a mass market item -- the announced first printing for this title being 35,000 copies. Fine in wrappers.
1190. -. Advance review copy of the first edition. Fine in dust jacket.
1191. -. Another copy, not a review copy. Fine in dust jacket
1192. -. Another copy, variant binding, book club edition. Fine in dust jacket.
1193. Mason, Steve. WARRIOR FOR PEACE. NY: S&S (1988). His second book, only issued in wrappers, with an introduction by Oliver Stone. Fine copy.
1194. McCarthy, Eugene. AND TIME BEGAN. (n.p.): (n.p.) 1968. Poems by McCarthy, who had been a Presidential aspirant on a peace platform earlier that year. This is one of 350 numbered copies reserved for friends of the author, this copy being inscribed by the author to antiwar activist poet Denise Levertov and bearing her ownership sticker. Near fine copy.
1195. McCarthy, Gerald. WAR STORY. Vietnam War Poems. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press (1977). The hardcover edition of this powerful collection of poems. A fine copy without dust jacket, apparently as issued.
1196. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to poet Joel Oppenheimer, one of the prominent poets to come out of Black Mountain College -- an important center of artistic activity in the 1950s, and the focus of a community of artists and writers who played a pivotal role in the antiwar movement in the 1960s. A fine copy.
1197. McDonald, Walter. AFTER THE NOISE OF SAIGON. Amherst, MA: U. of Mass., 1988. The hardcover edition of this collection, which won the 1987 Juniper Prize, the annual poetry award sponsored by the press. Fine in dust jacket. In print at:
1198. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. In print at:
1199. Merriam, Eve. THE NIXON POEMS. NY: Atheneum, 1970. A number of these poems about Richard Nixon have to do with Vietnam. Very good in dust jacket.
1200. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. Slight wear; very good.
1201. Moore, Daniel. BURNT HEART. Ode to the War Dead. SF: City Lights (1971). A Long poem written in response to the war and the suffering it caused. Very good in wraps.
1202. Nguyen Du. THE TALE OF KIEU. New Haven: Yale (1983). Bilingual edition of a long narrative poem written in the early nineteenth century which (according to the dust jacket) "has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature." Fine in dust jacket.
1203. Nhat Hanh, Thich. THO VIET NAM. Santa Barbara: Unicorn, 1972. Fourth edition of this collection, first published in 1968. This is the uncommon hardcover issue, fine without jacket as issued.
1204. -. Same title, same edition, the issue in wrappers. Publisher's new address written in pencil on the title page otherwise very good.
1205. Nhat Hanh, Thich. THE CRY OF VIETNAM. Santa Barbara: Unicorn, 1968. First edition. This is the very scarce issue in hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy in cloth, with erratum slip laid in. Drawings by Vo-Dinh.
1206. -. Second edition, 1971. Very fine in wrappers.
1208. Rawlings, Doug. SURVIVOR'S MANUAL, VOLUME 30, #4. Richford,VT: Samisdat, 1982. Strong antiwar poems by this Vietnam vet. A pamphlet, near fine in wrappers.
1209. Rossi, Matti. THE TREES OF VIETNAM. Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1966. Vietnam war poems written by a Finnish poet living in London. Fine in wrappers.
1210. Sandy, Stephen. JAPANESE ROOM. Providence, RI: Hellcoal Press, Brown University (1969). One of 400 copies. Includes one poem, "Charley," directly relating to Vietnam. This copy belonged to poet Denise Levertov, and has her ownership label pasted in, as well as a card presenting the book with the compliments of the Press's editor. Near fine copy.
1211. Schaaf, Richard. REVOLUTIONARY AT HOME. Willimantic: Curbstone (1975). Includes the poem "Homage to Ho Chi Minh" along with a number of other poems relating to left-wing political themes. This is the issue in wrappers. Fine.
1212. Schevill, James. THE BUDDHIST CAR. Chicago: Swallow (1973). The title poem, about a Buddhist monk reincarnated as an American car, is thematically tangential to Vietnam, but at least one poem, about bombing and its supporting hardware, is directly war-related. Fine in dust jacket.
1213. Smith, Richard R. REFLEXES AND REFLECTIONS: VIETNAM. (n.p.): (n.p.) 1985. Self-published book of poetry and drawings, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine.
1214. Stepanchev, Stephen. VIETNAM. (n.p.): Black Sparrow, 1968. Broadside poem, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Near fine copy.
1215. -. Another issue of this poem, unreleased. Precedes the above by one month. A typographical error caused this version to be destroyed; no copies are referred to in the bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press. This is one of the suppressed copies, with the typo. Fine.
1216. Thich Nu Nhat Chi Mai. HEAR THE LAST WORDS OF A PERSON WHO LOVES VIETNAM. Nyack,NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation (n.d.). A single sheet folded to make four pages. Poems and a letter to the Vietnamese governments by a Buddhist nun who immolated herself to protest the war.
1217. Twain, Mark. THE WAR PRAYER. NY: St. Crispin Press (1968). Twain's classic anti-war verse, published in a new edition at the height of the Vietnam war, with illustrations by war correspondent/illustrator John Groth. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1218. U Thi Ang. A DEATHBED POEM OF A VIETNAMESE FATHER TO HIS 14 YEAR OLD SON. (n.p.): (n.p.) (n.d.). A broadside, printing a sad poem by a dying Vietnamese on the verso of a poster by Tomi Ungerer depicting a Vietnamese version of Paul Revere's "midnight ride" with the caption "THE AMERICANS ARE COMING THE AMERICANS ARE COMING." A scarce and ephemeral antiwar piece by an important artist, as well as a powerful poem.
1219. Weigl, Bruce. EXECUTIONER. (Tucson): Ironwood (1976). A collection of poems, several of them about the war, by a writer now recognized as one of the finest poets to come out of the war and write about it. Stapled wrappers, a fine copy.
1220. Weigl, Bruce. A ROMANCE. Pittsburg: U. of Pittsburg (1979). His first "full-length collection" of poems, reprinting ones from the above title, as well as new writing. The hardcover edition, fine in dj.
1221. -. Same title, simultaneous paperback edition. Fine.
1222. Weigl, Bruce. SONG OF NAPALM. NY: Atlantic Monthly (1988). His latest collection, a well-received volume of war poems with an introduction by Robert Stone. This is an advance review copy, fine in fine dust jacket.
1223. -. Another review copy, fine in near fine dust jacket.
1224. -. Uncorrected proof copy, fine in proof dust jacket.
1225. -. Uncorrected proof copy, fine in wrappers (no dust jacket).
1226. Wrath, Don. SURVIVE! And Other Anti War Cries. Miami: Wrath (1972). A pamphlet of poems and exhortations, strongly antiwar. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
End of Poetry Section
FICTION ANTHOLOGIES
1227. (Anderson, Elliot and Robert Onopa, eds.). WAR STORIES. Tri-Quarterly 45. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1979. Vietnam stories include pieces by Kent Anderson ("Sympathy for the Devil"), W. D. Ehrhart, Asa Baber ("Ambush: Laos, 1960"), Larry Heinemann, a.o. Fine in wrappers.
1228. (Anisfield, Nancy, ed.). VIETNAM ANTHOLOGY: AMERICAN WAR LITERATURE. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press (1987). An excellent introduction to the literature of the war, compiled by a professor who teaches a course in the subject. This is the simultaneous clothbound issue, fine in fine dust jacket. In print at:
1229. -. Same title, the issue in wrappers. In print at:
1230. (Dann, Jeanne Van Buren and Jack Dann, eds.). IN THE FIELD OF FIRE. NY: TOR (1987). A well-received collection of science fiction stories about Vietnam, which attempt to get at the war by stretching the bounds of conventional fiction. This is the very scarce hardcover edition, out of print virtually upon publication, and reportedly limited to as few as 750 copies. Contributors include Lucius Shepard, Craig Kee Strete, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harlan Ellison, Joe Haldeman, a.o. With a useful bibliography. Fine in dust jacket.
1231. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy in proof dust jacket. Fine.
1232. -. Same title, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. About fine.
1233. (Foley, Martha, ed.). THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1973. Bos: HM, 1973. Includes "Going Home" by James Kenary, a Vietnam story by a Vietnam vet. Near fine in dust jacket.
1234. (Foley, Martha, ed.). THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1977. Bos: HM, 1977. Includes "Going After Cacciato" by Tim O'Brien. Near fine in dust jacket.
1235. (Gray, Charles, ed.). PHOENIX COUNTRY. London/West Nyack: Journeyman (1980). Second edition of this collection which includes Robert Bly, Tim O'Brien, John Sack, Ron Kovic, Nhat Hanh, Denise Levertov, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. Remainder stripes along edges of pages otherwise fine.
1236. (Greenberg, Martin and Augustus Norton, eds.). TOURING NAM: THE VIETNAM WAR READER. NY: Morrow (1985). Advance review copy of this collection of pieces by Tim O'Brien, Kent Anderson, David Reed, Tom Suddick, Ronald Glasser, a.o. Fine in dust jacket.
1237. -. Another copy, not a review copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1238. (Jenks, Tom, ed.). SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS. Americans at War and at Home. NY: Bantam (1986). Advance review copy of the scarce hardcover issue of this collection, which prints pieces by such writers as Richard Ford, John Sayles, Andre Dubus, Robert Stone, Jayne Anne Phillips, and many others. About half the pieces are first book appearances for the stories, the other half reprints. Fine in jacket.
1239. (Karlin, Wayne, Basil T. Paquet and Larry Rottmann, eds.). FREE FIRE ZONE. NY: McGraw-Hill (1973). The first anthology of short stories written by Vietnam veterans. Contributors include George Davis, David Huddle, Loyd Little, William Pelfrey, Steven Phillips Smith, and others. This is the first hardcover edition, preceded by the original edition, done by 1st Casualty Press and issued only in wrappers. An important anthology, which is scarce both in the first edition and in this hardcover edition. Fine in dust jacket.
1240. -. Another copy, fine in near fine dust jacket.
1241. (Klinkowitz, Jerome and John Somer, ed.). WRITING UNDER FIRE. Stories of the Vietnam War. NY: Delta (1978). An important anthology, one of the first to get wide distribution in the book trade. Includes a bibliography: "Vietnam in American Fiction: A Bibliography of Works Published During Our Active Engagement in the War," one of the earliest attempts to do a bibliography of Vietnam literature. Pages slightly yellowed, otherwise a fine copy in wrappers.
1242. -. Another copy, well worn.
1243. (Levy, Laurie, ed.). CHICAGO WORKS: A Collection of Chicago Authors' BEST Stories. Chicago: Morton, 1990. Uncorrected proof copy. Includes Vietnam-related stories by James Park Sloan and Larry Heinemann. Fine in wrappers.
1244. (Monigold, Glenn, ed.). FOLK TALES FROM VIETNAM. Mt. Vernon: Peter Pauper (1964). Compilation of short tales, illustrated by Jeanyee Wong. Small gouge in front cover otherwise very good in dust jacket with corresponding hole and some dampstaining rear panel.
1245. (Richards, Paul, ed.). MADE IN AMERICA SOLD IN THE 'NAM. Fort Wayne,IN: DMZ Pub., 1984. Fine in library-type buckram binding, presumably as issued. Short stories, poetry and essays by Vietnam Vets.
1246. (Williams, Reese, ed.) UNWINDING THE VIETNAM WAR. From War Into Peace. Seattle, WA: The Real Comet Press, 1987. A large anthology combining fiction, poetry, memoirs, letters, political pieces, etc. This is the issue in wrappers. A fine copy. In print at:
End of Anthologies
1247. Aarons, Edward S. ASSIGNMENT CONG HAI KILL. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett (1966). First edition, paperback original. One of the "Assignment - " series, this one set in Southeast Asia. Slightly stained at bottom of pages at rear, otherwise a near fine copy.
1248. -. Another copy, later printing (75c price). Very good.
1249. Abbott, Lee K. THE HEART NEVER FITS ITS WANTING. Ceder Falls, IA: North American Review, 1980. The author's first book, a short story collection which includes the much-anthologized "The Viet Cong Love of Sergeant Donnie T. Bobo." The uncommon hardcover issue, fine in dust jacket.
1250. Abbott, Lee K. STRANGERS IN PARADISE. NY: Putnam's (1987). A collection of stories, including one set at Khe Sanh. Fine in fine dust jacket (light crease front flap).
1251. Abbott, Lee K. DREAMS OF DISTANT LIVES. NY: Putnam's (1989). Review copy. A collection of stories, including "Why I Live in Hanoi." Fine in fine dust jacket.
1252. -. Same title, not a review copy. Fine in dust jacket.
1253. Abel, Robert. THE PROGRESS OF A FIRE. NY: S&S (1985). A novel of two men, one a recently returned Vietnam vet. Fine in dust jacket.
1254. Algren, Nelson. THE LAST CAROUSEL. NY: Putnam's (1973). Uncorrected proof copy. Short pieces including several about Vietnam. A near fine copy of this fragile "pad-bound" proof by Algren, one of the most noted of the postwar writers following in the tradition of proletarian literature begun in earnest in this country in the 1930s, during the Depression. As such, a link between the Old Left and the New Left which grew up around the issues of the 1960s -- Vietnam and civil rights.
1255. Ambler, Eric. STATE OF SIEGE. NY: Knopf, 1956. A suspense novel set in the capital city of an unnamed Southeast Asian country, during a coup d'etat. Near fine in dust jacket.
1256. -. Another copy, near fine in a dust jacket stained on rear panel.
1257. Amos, James. THE MEMORIAL. NY: Crown (1989). A novel of the Vietnam war, the author's first. This is an advance review copy with promotional material laid in. Fine in dust jacket.
1258. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
1259. -. Same title, first edition. Fine in dust jacket.
1260. Anderson, Jack and Bill Pronzini. THE CAMBODIA FILE. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. A fact-based novel of Cambodia on the eve of the Khmer Rouge victory. Remainder spray bottom edge of pages, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
1261. Anderson, Kent. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. Well-received first novel, of the Special Forces in Vietnam, with whom the author served. Fine in fine dust jacket. A powerful and well-written novel, a cut above most of the combat novels of the war.
1262. -. Same title, advance reading copy from uncorrected manuscript. with many changes evident and portions of text visible which were later excised from the book. Fine in wrappers.
1263. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy. Unlike most proofs, this one was issued after the advance reading copy, presumably because of the number of changes in the above. Fine in wrappers.
1264. Anderson, Robert A. COOKS & BAKERS. NY: Avon (1982). Paperback original, a first novel of the war, a grunt's-eye-view of Marines fighting a war they don't want. Fine in wrappers.
1265. -. Another copy, near fine in wrappers.
1266. Anderson, Robert A. SERVICE FOR THE DEAD. NY: Arbor (1986). A novel of the war told from the perspective of a wounded vet having dreams and flashbacks after returning home. Fine in dj.
1267. Anderson, William C. THE GOONEY BIRD. NY: Crown (1968). An early, very scarce novel of the war, one of the few about the Air Force, this one focusing on the crew of one of the refitted DC-3s which saw service as powerfully equipped gunships. A humorous novel by a former military pilot who visited Vietnam as a civilian, this is one of the scarcest novels of the war. Very good copy in spine-darkened, very good dust jacket.
1268. Anh Duc. HON DAT. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1969. Winner of an important literary prize sponsored by the NLF in South Vietnam. Very good in wrappers, in dust jacket.
1269. Argo, Ronald. YEAR OF THE MONKEY. NY: S&S (1989). The author's first novel, set in Vietnam during the Tet offensive, about a grunt and a journalist caught up in a web of CIA-inspired intrigue with tragic consequences. Fine in fine dust jacket.
1270. -. Same title, uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
1271. Arias-Mission, Alain. "Vietnam-Superfiction" in CHICAGO REVIEW, Vol. 23, No. 2, Autumn, 1971. Experimental fiction and meta-fiction. Near fine in wrappers.
1272. Armstrong, Robert Gary. ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS. NY: Vantage (1982). Vanity press novel of an Australian boy who ends up going to Vietnam and dying there. Fine in dust jacket.
1273. Arnold, William. CHINA GATE. NY: Villard, 1983. The author's first novel, "a view of the Vietnam war from the perspective of those who had the most vested interest in it: the permanent American community in Asia. Fine in fine dust jacket.
1274. Atkinson, Hugh. THE MOST SAVAGE ANIMAL. NY: S&S (1972). A novel of the Red Cross in Vietnam. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
1275. -. Another copy. Sticker removal mark on endpaper; very good in slightly stained jacket.