Vietnam/The Sixties 2, Vietnam Literature 2
436. CALDWELL, John C. Let's Visit Vietnam. NY: John Day (1969). Fifth printing, revised in 1969, of a book first published in 1966, part of a series written for young people. Near fine, without dust jacket, probably as issued.
437. (Calendar). Vietnam Date Book. (Saigon): American Women's Association of Saigon (n.d.) (c.1957). Date book for the year 1958. Heavily illustrated with photographs of "typical" Vietnamese scenes--mostly rural, and none military. A short synopsis of Vietnamese history ends with Ngo Dinh Diem becoming President of Vietnam in the elections of October, 1955. A portrait of Diem provides a frontispiece. Pages foxed; wrappers coming loose. Overall, only good, but a scarce early item from the American community in South Vietnam.
438. CAMPBELL, Tom. The Old Man's Trail. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press (1995). Review copy. A novel by a former Marine who served two and a half tours in Vietnam. This novel focuses on the experience of a group of fifteen year-old Vietcong soldiers, and is based on a conversation the author had with a 15 year-old Vietcong prisoner of war in 1967. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's review slip laid in.
439. CAPUTO, Philip. A Rumor of War. NY: Holt Rinehart Winston (1977). One of the first personal accounts of the war to be published after the fall of Saigon and to receive wide distribution: it was a Main Selection of the Book of the Month Club. Caputo recounts his experiences in Vietnam as a Marine, which ended in a court-martial when two of his troops killed two civilians. The anguish of the war, and the way it not only divided a nation against itself but individuals from within, is recounted with directness and force by a thoughtful individual who is also a good writer. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
440. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author in 1980. Owner name front flyleaf; staining to boards; near-total flaking to spine lettering. A good copy, without dust jacket.
441. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Signed by the author. A few page corners turned, a bit of edge-sunning; still about near fine in wrappers.
442. -. Another copy of the advance reading copy. Near fine in wrappers.
443. -. Same title, the Book Club edition. Near fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket. Like various book club editions from this period, this copy states "First Edition" explicitly, even though it isn't a true first edition.
444. CAPUTO, Philip. Exiles. NY: Knopf, 1997. The uncorrected proof of this collection of three novellas by the author of A Rumor of War. One of the three novellas takes place in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. Fine in wrappers.
445. (Cartoons). Absolutely No U.S. Personnel Permitted Beyond This Point. (NY): Dell/Delta (1972). An anthology of antiwar cartoons. Edited by Bill Lee and introduced by Jules Feiffer. Contributors include the editors, Edward Sorel, David Levine, Saul Steinberg, Gahan Wilson, George Booth, and others. Signed by Lee and Feiffer and ten other contributing artists. Near fine in wrappers.
446. (Cartoons). FOSTER, Tad. The Vietnam Funny Book. (An Antidote to Insanity). (Novato): Presidio Press (1980). Second edition; paperback; oblong wrappers. Rubbed; near fine.
447. -. Same title, the third edition (San Francisco: Black Pearl, 1988). Signed by the cartoonist in 1989. Contains an added introduction by the author about the genesis of the book. This is the hardcover issue of this edition. Fine in an edge-rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
448. CASSIDY, John. A Station in the Delta. NY: Scribner's (1979). The author's first book, a novel of the CIA in Vietnam. The author served in Vietnam as an Operations Officer in the Clandestine Service for the CIA. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear at the crown.
449. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Covers creased; very good in wrappers.
450. CHANDLER, David. Captain Hollister. NY: Macmillan (1973). Black comedy about an officer who returns to Vietnam after being away for five years. Disillusioned with the way the war is being handled, he breaks ranks with the Army in an attempt to redeem his own humanity. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
451. (Chinese Propaganda). The People of Viet Nam Will Triumph! U.S. Aggressors Will Be Defeated, Vol. I. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965. Propaganda, including tables showing "Brilliant Victories Scored by the South Vietnamese Army and People [i.e., Viet Cong]" through 1964. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
452. (Chinese Propaganda). The People of Viet Nam Will Triumph! U.S. Aggressors Will Be Defeated, Vol. II. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965. Magazine-format propaganda from China, including the explicit vow "to make full preparations to send our own people to fight together with the Vietnamese people and drive out the U.S. aggressors..."--a threat that was taken very seriously in the U.S. in the early stages of the war. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
453. (Chinese Propaganda). Support the People of Viet Nam, Defeat U.S. Aggressors. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965. "The Chinese people swear that they will stand by the 30 million Vietnamese people and fight to the end to defeat the all-evil U.S. aggressors..." U.S. Government stamp on first page, otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers.
454. CLODFELTER, Micheal. The Pawns of Dishonor. Boston: Branden Press (1976). Autobiographical account by a veteran of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, who returned to the U.S. and became active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. An uncommon title, issued by a small press before the flood of Vietnam memoirs began in the 1980s.
455. CLUTTERBUCK, Richard L. The Long War. Counterinsurgency in Malaya and Vietnam. NY: Praeger (1966). An important, pertinent subject, about which few volumes have been produced for general consumption--essentially a "how-to" guide for winning the hearts and minds of the populace when fighting a guerrilla war. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
456. (Coastal Vessels). Blue Book of Coastal Vessels: South Vietnam. Columbus: Remote Area Conflict Information Center, 1967. Heavily illustrated bilingual guide. Thick, oblong quarto, 556 pages, approximately 11" x 8½"; boards soiled from handling. Very good, without dust jacket. Laid in are seven color photographs dated from 1967-1971 with descriptive information on the back and USAPA declassified stamps. Six of the photos are 4" x 5"; one is 10" x 8". An extensive verbal and visual description of all the kinds of coastal vessels to be encountered in Vietnam, as of 1967. Very scarce.
457. COE, Charles. Young Man in Vietnam. NY: Four Winds (1968). One of the very earliest personal accounts of the war, and consequently one of the scarcest. It took us over ten years after first hearing of this book to actually lay hands on a copy. Trace foxing to page edges; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with one short, closed edge tear.
458. COLODNY, Robert. Spain and Vietnam. The Fight for Freedom. (NY): Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1967. A short pamphlet, printing an essay by a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, comparing the U.S. role in Vietnam with that of Franco and the fascists in Spain. Small "x" front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers.
459. (Congressional Committee Report). The Amendment to End the War. (Washington, D.C.): (n.p.)(n.d.)[c. 1970]. "Report of the Steering Committee of the Congressional Committee for a Vote on the War." The text of a Congressional amendment to a funding bill calling for the cutting off of funds for the conflict in Southeast Asia. It was a series of such actions by Congress that eventually limited the American involvement in Vietnam, forcing a pullout and a "negotiated settlement," such as it was. Very near fine in stapled wrappers.
460. (Conscientious Objection). Living at War. A Collection of Contemporary Responses to the Draft. (n.p.: n.p., n.d.). Spiralbound collection, apparently done in 1968 by students at the University of Chicago, containing personal statements by soldiers, draft evaders, and others; also includes poetry and drawings. Not least interesting among the letters reproduced is a somewhat sympathetic letter from a draft board, to an individual who had indicated his resistance to the draft and the war by returning his draft card. Several pages appear to be missing from this very scarce and revealing period piece. A couple of marginal markings and notes; cover starting to separate from binder; good.
461. (Conscientious Objection). Handbook for Conscientious Objectors. Philadelphia: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1968. The fourth printing of the ninth edition; the first edition was in 1952. The printing history reveals 35,000 copies in the first six editions, published over a span of 12 years, and 107,000 copies in the seventh through ninth editions, in a span of three years. Near fine in wrappers.
462. COOK, Captain John L. The Advisor. Phil: Dorrance (1973). An important and early personal account by an author who spent two years in Vietnam. Published only by a "vanity press," this edition is exceedingly scarce. Reprinted in paperback nearly twenty years after its original publication, which is highly unusual for a vanity press book. The front of the book has been scratched, tearing the jacket and leaving indentations on the boards; therefore only a good copy. Signed by the author.
463. COONTS, Stephen. Flight of the Intruder. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press (1986). A novel of naval aviators in Vietnam, and basis for the film. The second novel from this press after their hugely successful gamble with Tom Clancy's first book, The Hunt for Red October. Small spot on half-title; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
464. CURREY, Richard. Fatal Light. NY: Dutton (1988). Currey's well-received first novel, a powerful series of stories of a medic in Vietnam. Currey himself served four years as a medic with the Marines. Laudatory dust jacket comments by several other writers of notable Vietnam-related books--Tim O'Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Philip Caputo. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
465. -. Another copy. One page torn at foredge; near fine in dust jacket.
466. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Tiny horizontal crease to spine; still fine in wrappers, with two-page promotional letter laid in printing the blurbs that appeared on the jacket, plus one that didn't.
467. DAVIS, Christopher. Dog Horse Rat. (n.p.): Viking (1990). The uncorrected proof copy. A novel about two brothers, one a Vietnam vet, who murder a man in the course of committing a robbery and are haunted by the crime thereafter. Fine in wrappers.
468. DAY, George E. Return with Honor. Mesa: Champlin Museum Press (1989). Personal account by an Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor winner who spent 67 months as a P.O.W. in Vietnam. Slight spine slant; else fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
469. DEANE, Hugh. The War in Vietnam. NY: Monthly Review, 1963. No. 23 in the Monthly Review Pamphlet Series. An early antiwar essay, written while John F. Kennedy was still President and Ngo Dinh Diem was President of South Vietnam. The Foreword prints a stridently antiwar and anti-American letter to the New York Times written in April, 1963 by the Nobel Prize-winning writer and philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Small "x" front cover; else fine in stapled wrappers.
470. DEL VECCHIO, John M. The 13th Valley. NY: Bantam (1982). An exhaustively researched novel that follows a company of the 101st Airborne in an operation closely based on an actual campaign in the summer of 1970. Both the amount and the historical accuracy of the information conveyed are impressive, and the novel was reprinted many times. Fine in a near fine dust jacket creased on the spine and with one very small edge tear. A very nice copy of a bulky, heavy book that shows wear easily.
471. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in tall wrappers.
472. DeMILLE, Nelson. Word of Honor. NY: Warner (1985). Novel of a belated court-martial for war crimes in Vietnam, by a writer who was a lieutenant in Vietnam and is a journeyman thriller writer. Remainder stripe; else fine in a very good dust jacket with a few edge tears.
473. DENNIS, Charles. Stoned Cold Soldier. London: Bachman & Turner (1973). The author's first book, a satirical novel that was only published in England and which is one of the scarcer novels of the war. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with several lamination scratches.
474. DERRIG, Peter. The Pride of the Green Berets. NY: Paperback Library (1966). Paperback original. An early combat novel about a Special Forces squad. Very good.
475. DIAMOND, Jack. Sabres in the Sky. (n.p.: n.p., n.d.)[c. 1987]. An unpublished manuscript of a personal account of the war written by a former fighter pilot. Loose sheets; fine. The color title page has a label with the author's name written in; it appears that the author originally intended to "publish" the manuscript under another name. A unique item, which describes a somewhat under-represented part of the Vietnam experience, that of the fighter pilot.
476. DODGE, Ed. Dau. NY: Macmillan (1984). A novel of the war and its aftereffects by a vet who served in Vietnam in 1967-68. Fine in dust jacket.
477. DOWNS, Frederick. The Killing Zone. My Life in the Vietnam War. NY: Norton (1978). A first-person account of a young infantry lieutenant who won several medals in Vietnam and was severely injured, losing a limb. One of the first wave of personal accounts to come out after the war's outcome was clear, this book was reprinted a number of times. Foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket creased on the rear flap fold.
478. (Draft Resistance). Fuck the Draft. (n.p.: n.p., n.d.). A business-card sized exhortation to "Fuck the Draft/ Return Your Draft Card Nov. 14/ Contact the Resistance." With address and phone. Small piece of antiwar ephemera, printed in red and blue on white paper. Fine.
479. (Draft Resistance). Notice of Declassification. (Los Angeles): (West Coast Pentagon) (n.d.). Antiwar ephemera, printed to look like an official notification from the Selective Service System, this card re-classifies the bearer, named "Awol G.I. Hero" as "Class 6-Z until Peace Declared." It purports to be issued by the "Selective Existence [sic] System" and authorized by "General Hershey Bar." The verso has a lengthy statement urging the bearer to "burn or 'boil' your non-draft card" and to "Burn Other Side" of this card. The address of issue is given as "West Coast Pentagon" in Los Angeles. Approximately 2 3/4" x 4 1/4". Fine.
480. (Draft Resistance) WILLIAMS, Roger Neville. The New Exiles. American War Resisters in Canada. NY: Liveright (1971). Foreword by William Sloane Coffin. A study of draft evaders/dodgers/resisters by an author who himself evaded the draft, "hiding out" in Vietnam as a war correspondent. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
481. (Draft Resistance). Hell No, We Won't Go. Vancouver: Raincoast Books (1996). A survey and account of American draft resisters who moved to Canada in the late Sixties and early Seventies, and the paths they followed after the end of the war--few of them returning to the U.S. after draft amnesty was declared in 1977. Fine in wrappers.
482. DUBERSTEIN, Larry. Nobody's Jaw. Cambridge: Darkhorse Bookmakers, 1979. A collection of very short stories, one of which is about a Marine in Vietnam. Fine in wrappers.
483. DU BOIS, Cora. Social Forces in Southeast Asia. (Minneapolis): University of Minnesota Press (1949). Early analysis of impending problems in Southeast Asia, by a scholar working for the Intelligence Office of the U.S. State Department. These essays were originally given as a series of lectures at Smith College in 1947 and show remarkable prescience in recognizing the resistance to the reestablishment of colonial power in Southeast Asia after the end of the Second World War and the possibility that resistance to it will lead to widespread violence in the region. Near fine in a near fine, edge-sunned dust jacket.
484. DUDMAN, Richard. 40 Days with the Enemy. NY: Liveright (1971). Journalist's account of being captured by guerillas in Cambodia in 1970, just days after the famed American "incursion" into Cambodia to destroy the border sanctuaries being used by Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops fighting in South Vietnam. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
485. DUNCAN, David Douglas. War Without Heroes. NY: Harper & Row (1970). Probably the most famous volume of photographs of the war; many of these shots appeared in Life magazine or on its cover, and helped shape the nation's image of Vietnam. The author, himself a former Marine, documented three different combat operations with the Marines in Vietnam--at Cua Viet, Con Thien and Khe Sanh. Large quarto. Slight offsetting to endpapers; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with two edge tears and wear at the spine extremities.
486. DUNCAN, Donald. The New Legions. NY: Random House (1967). A personal account by a former Green Beret, and a scathing criticism of the U.S. policy in Vietnam. Inscribed by the author: "____ ____/ I love, and love to love,/ I love those who love but/ neither war nor revolution was/ ever won by or with love/ Love/ Don Duncan." Water damage to flyleaf and other page edges (not affecting inscription); still about very good in a very good dust jacket.
487. -. Another copy. Near fine in a dust jacket much worn at the spine crown but otherwise near fine.
488. DUNCANSON, Dennis J. Government and Revolution in Vietnam. NY: Oxford, 1968. Second printing. A study of Vietnamese politics and the war by a former British diplomat in Vietnam. Library drive bookplate on front pastedown; very good in a good dust jacket with a jagged open tear at the head of the spine.
489. DUNN, Mary Lois. The Man in the Box. A Story from Vietnam. NY: McGraw-Hill (1968). A novel for young adults, about an American soldier captured by the Viet Cong and saved by a Montagnard boy. A very scarce early novel of the war, reprinted a number of times and especially scarce in the first printing. Near fine in a dust jacket with several tiny gutter nicks, still about near fine.
490. DURDEN, Charles. No Bugles, No Drums. NY: Viking (1976). One of the unsung novels of the war, a black comedy which is as hilarious as it is black, which is saying a lot: it seethes with the kind of rage and cynical humor that, it is easy to forget, was the lingua franca of the later years of the war. A moving book which does its share to keep one from forgetting the intensity of that era. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
491. EDEN, Anthony. Toward Peace in Indochina. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. A short volume by the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, arguing that the 1954 Geneva Accords--which proposed independence and neutrality for the nations of Southeast Asia--provide the best model for a solution to the ongoing crisis in Vietnam in the 1960s. Eden was Prime Minister in the '50s, during the Suez Crisis, an experience that no doubt helped temper his views toward nationalist, and "third world," aspirations. This copy is inscribed by the author to Drew Middleton, award-winning reporter and longtime Chief Correspondent in Southeast Asia for The New York Times. Inscribed "with much gratitude" in the year of publication. An important association. Penciled marginal markings. Water-damaged boards, not affecting text. Good, lacking the dust jacket.
492. EDGAR, Ken. End and Beginning. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall (1972). A family drama set in 1968, with political assassinations and the Vietnam war, and resistance to it, providing the backdrop for the plot. Price scribbled out on front pastedown, a few unintended marks in text; near fine in a very good, moderately edgeworn dust jacket.
493. EDGAR, Ken. As If. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall (1973). A novel of a scientist doing top-secret military work, who is sent to Vietnam when a bomb he designed fails to work as intended. In the course of the main character's odyssey, the divisive effects of the war and the protests against it are examined through his experiences and those of his family members and the people he meets in Vietnam. A somewhat uncommon novel, issued by a publisher more well-known for its textbooks than fiction. Owner's signature on front pastedown and blindstamp on page one; otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket that also bears the blindstamp.
494. EHRHART, W.D. Vietnam-Perkasie. Jefferson: McFarland, 1983. First printing of this book subtitled "A Combat Marine Memoir." Ehrhart is one of the most accomplished and widely published poets who has written about the Vietnam war; he has edited key anthologies of Vietnam war poetry and published a multi-volume series of memoirs. Near fine in wrappers.
495. -. Another copy. Owner name inside front cover and on foredge; near fine in wrappers.
496. -. Same title, a reissue (NY: Kensington Publishing/Zebra Books, 1985). Inscribed by the author in 1985. Very near fine in wrappers.
497. -. Same title, another reissue (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 1995), published in a uniform format with his other two volumes of memoirs [see below]. Fine in wrappers.
498. EHRHART, W.D. Marking Time. (NY): Avon (1986). Paperback original, a memoir. The title of this volume was changed shortly after publication, we are told, making this edition scarce. Very near fine in wrappers.
499. EHRHART, W.D. Going Back. An Ex-Marine Returns to Vietnam. Jefferson: McFarland (1987). A prose report of Ehrhart's return to Vietnam many years after the war ended, along with a number of poems written for the occasion. Published the same year by Pendle Hill and the Society of Friends with the subtitle "A Poet Who Was Once a Marine Returns to Vietnam." Fine in wrappers.
500. EHRHART, W.D. Passing Time. Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press (1995). Reissue of his book Marking Time, originally issued in 1986, one of a trilogy of well-received memoirs. Fine in wrappers.
501. EHRHART, W.D. Busted. A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America. Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press (1995). The third volume in the author's memoirs, here published for the first time. Fine in a fine dust jacket. At the publisher's list price:
502. EISEN-BERGMAN, Arlene. Women of Vietnam. (San Francisco): People's Press (1974). Feminist and leftist book on the women's movement in Vietnam, documented with many personal anecdotes. This is the first edition; a revised and expanded edition was issued the following year, after South Vietnam was "liberated." Rubbed and spine-sunned; otherwise near fine in wrappers.
503. ELKINS, Frank C. The Heart of a Man. NY: Norton (1973). The posthumously published diary of a heavily decorated Navy pilot in Vietnam, edited by his wife and published seven years after he was shot down and listed officially as missing in action. An interesting aspect of the diary is the revelation of the pilot's early doubts about the American involvement in Vietnam, well before the antiwar movement was widespread. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of very short edge tears and a bit of dampstaining on verso.
504. ELY, Scott. Starlight. NY: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1987). The author's first book, a novel about a night-vision rifle scope which enables its user to see the future. Sticker removal mark front pastedown; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
505. -. Another copy. Dust to foredge and flyleaf; near fine in a fine dust jacket.
506. (Engineers). Engineer Troops Vietnam. (San Francisco/Tokyo): (Engineer Troops Vietnam) (1968). Revised second printing of this spiralbound collection of 65 drawings and paintings of U.S. Army Engineers at work in Vietnam, done by the engineers themselves. An interesting visual depiction of aspects of the war that passed without notice to the majority of the nonparticipants in the war. First thus. Fine.
507. (ESZTERHAS, Joe). "The Prisons of War" in Rolling Stone, No. 157. March 28, 1974. Personal narrative of Rick Springman, a POW who was "radicalized" in Vietnam. Near fine copy.