Vietnam/The Sixties 2, Vietnam Literature 4

581. HALBERSTAM, David. The Making of a Quagmire. NY: Random House (1965). First book of reporting by the New York Times journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Vietnam in 1964, as well as several other journalism awards. An early, critical, controversial piece of reporting on the war. This is a fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several edge tears and ragged wear at the spine crown. An important book, and relatively uncommon in the first printing these days.

582. -. Same title, the second printing. Label removal shadow front flyleaf; else fine in a good, internally tape-repaired dust jacket.

583. HALBERSTAM, David. One Very Hot Day. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. A novel of the war by this Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, whose nonfiction ranks among the best and most influential written on the war. Fine in a very good dust jacket internally reinforced at the spine extremities. While the book club edition of this title is common, the first printing is relatively scarce, with many copies showing up ex-library.

584. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Bodley Head, 1968). Fine in a very good dust jacket. An uncommon edition.

585. HALDEMAN, Joe W. War Year. NY: HRW (1972). First book by this author who has since won a number of major awards for his science fiction writing. A short, semi-autobiographical novel of his year in Vietnam. Slight corner bump; spotting to bottom page edges, still near fine in a near fine dust jacket with "5/29" (the publication date) written in grease pencil on the spine--i.e., presumably a review copy.

586. HALLIN, Daniel C. The "Uncensored" War. The Media and Vietnam. NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. An analysis of the role of the press in reporting the Vietnam war, and an examination of various elements of the "conventional wisdom" on the subject that developed in both conservative and liberal camps after the end of the war. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a hint of spine fading.

587. HALPERN, S.E. West Pac '64. Boston: Branden Press (1975). Personal account by a Navy doctor who was serving in the Western Pacific in 1964, and who took part in the battle of the Tonkin Gulf. The author's introductory note explains that he wrote most of the book shortly after the events occurred, in 1964 and 1965, then re-edited the book into its final form in 1970. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A scarce book, from a very small Boston publisher, and a fairly simple, unsophisticated production. Personal accounts from servicemen from this era are quite uncommon.

588. HAMILL, Peter. Irrational Ravings. NY: Putnam (1971). A collection of essays and articles by the reporter/columnist, including 20 or so about his time in Vietnam as a correspondent in early 1966, at which point he represented a relatively early critical voice against the U.S. policies in the war. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.

589. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. A small amount of underlining in the text, otherwise very good in tall wrappers. Inscribed by the author in 1975.

590. HAMMEL, Eric. Ambush Valley. (Novato): Presidio (1990). Oral history of a Marine engagement in I Corps, near Con Thien, in September, 1967. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

591. HAMMER, Richard. One Morning in the War. The Tragedy at Son My. NY: Coward-McCann (1970). Later printing of this investigative report on the killings at Son My/My Lai, including much first-person testimony. Large owner name and date front endpaper; else near fine in a very good dust jacket.

592. HARDCASTLE, Paul. 19. (London): Chrysalis, 1985. 7" record, with side one, "19," being a song about Vietnam: 19 was the average age of the combat soldiers in Vietnam. Fine in original sleeve, illustrated with photographs from the war. An unusual example of Vietnam war commentary in popular culture.

593. HARDESTY, Steven. Ghost Soldiers. NY: Walker (1986). A novel by a writer who was an artillery officer in Vietnam, about a group of soldiers, some alive and some dead, fighting together. The book focuses on various soldiers' fantasies, and how the fantasies become survival mechanisms. Remainder dot top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

594. HASFORD, Gustav. The Short-Timers. NY: Harper & Row (1979). The author's first book, a novel that was made into the landmark movie Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick. A short, grim book, it has been called one of the most powerful to come out of the war and the movie was equally stunning in its portrayal of the brutalization of the recruits who were being sent to war, both before they went and after they arrived. Hasford died of complications from an illness contracted during his stay in prison as a result of his conviction on charges of book theft. His avid love of books led him to become not only a writer but also a hoarder of books, many of which had apparently been wrongfully removed from libraries. In the space of a couple of years, Hasford went from being a celebrity Vietnam vet novelist, with the screenplay of a major Hollywood production of his own novel to his credit, to a convicted thief serving time in jail and virtually shunned by his former associates--all of which seem to be attributable in some fashion to post-traumatic stress. Remainder stripe, one page corner creased; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

595. -. Another copy. Remainder mark, and flaking to spine lettering; very near fine in like dust jacket with light wear at the spine crown.

596. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. This is the presumed first state, with two pages printed upside down. Fine in wrappers.

597. -. Another copy of the uncorrected proof. Second state, with pages righted, also slightly taller than the first state. Small label partially removed from front cover; else fine in wrappers.

598. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Century, 1985). Published just prior to the release of the movie Full Metal Jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon.

599. HASFORD, Gustav. The Phantom Blooper. NY: Bantam (1990). His second novel, a sequel to The Short-Timers, with several of the same characters. Tiny edge nick to lower front board; fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the spine extremities. A surprisingly uncommon book these days.

600. -. Another copy. A touch of sunning near the crown; else fine in a good dust jacket torn and chipped near the crown.

601. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Tiny white specks to rear (red) panel; else fine in wrappers.

602. HATHAWAY, Bo. A World of Hurt. NY: Taplinger Publishing (1981). A first novel by a Mississippi Special Forces vet, about two Green Berets fighting in Vietnam for very different reasons. Fine in a very good, lightly rubbed jacket with a few short edge tears and internally tape-strengthened spine extremities.

603. HATHAWAY, Stephen. A Kind of Redemption. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1991. A collection of stories with Vietnam and the war as the focus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket blurbs by James Lee Burke, Richard Currey and Lee K. Abbott.

604. -. Another copy. Ex-library copy, neatly stamped as such on the top edge. Date stamped on rear pastedown; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with an unobtrusive crease on the front panel.

605. HEATH, Layne. CW2. NY: Morrow (1990). Advance reading copy of this well-received novel of the war by a former helicopter pilot who, like the main character in the novel, served two tours of duty in Vietnam. This is a fine copy in wrappers.

606. HEFLY, James and Marti. No Time for Tombstones. Life and Death in the Vietnamese Jungle. Harrisburg: Christian Publications (1974). Nonfiction, about two American missionaries who were captured during the Tet offensive and died of malnutrition in captivity after months of forced marches through the jungle. Owner name on title page, cloth heavily foxed; about very good in a good, spine-faded, foxed, rubbed, edgetorn and taped dust jacket. Uncommon.

607. HEINEMANN, Larry. Paco's Story. NY: FSG (1986). The author's second novel, about a badly maimed Vietnam vet who is the only survivor of a vicious firefight, and his life after returning from the war. Surprise winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

608. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

609. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.

610. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Faber, 1987). Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

611. HEINLEIN, David. A Guide to South-East Asia. (n.p.: n.p., n.d). [New Brunswick, 1973]. Small chapbook printing a poet's journal entries of travel in Southeast Asia, 1973. One of 1000 copies. Fine in stapled wrappers.

612. HEMPSTONE, Smith. A Tract of Time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. An early, influential novel by a veteran journalist, one of the first to attempt to get at the "truth" of Vietnam by telling a fictional tale. Fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket with some ink markings on the rear flap fold.

613. -. Another copy. Fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket with several small chips and a small abrasion to the front panel.

614. -. Another copy. The top edges of the boards are heavily abraded; very good in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with minor wear at the edges and corners.

615. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Near fine in wrappers.

616. HERR, Michael. Dispatches. NY: Knopf, 1977. Herr, reporting for Rolling Stone and Esquire from Vietnam, was--along with such now-legendary figures as Tim Page, Sean Flynn and Dana Stone--among the first of the young writers to bring the sensibilities of the 1960s and the conventions of the New Journalism to the "first rock-and-roll war," and it was a perfect match: nobody had told the tales Herr was finding in Vietnam and sending back in a riveting series of dispatches, legendary at the time. "Hell Sucks," "Illumination Rounds," "Khe Sanh," and his other pieces told the stories of the war in voices so authentic--the uncensored words of the participants themselves--that their impact was shattering. The official picture of an orderly progression to the war--Body Counts, Vietnamization, Winning Hearts and Minds--bore no relation to the absolute madness and sheer hell that Herr found when he barely scratched the surface and got a glimpse of how the war looked from a grunts'-eye view. His writings helped define the "credibility gap" that made Vietnam so different from earlier wars. These are the individual "dispatches"-- short, separate, individual pieces sent back from Vietnam at different times and from different places. Each is powerful and complete in itself, and the whole adds up to much more than the sum of its parts by virtue of the sheer intensity of each part. Some of the most powerful reporting on the war. Not an impossible book to find, but a nearly impossible book to find in perfect condition: the jacket is unlaminated and the lettering is gold foil that rubs readily. This copy is fine in a fine dust jacket.

617. -. Another copy. One small spot to top edge (not a remainder mark), else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a trace of the usual rubbing.

618. -. Another copy. Small bit of label residue front flyleaf; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

619. -. Another copy. Owner blindstamps to several pages, spotting to top edge; very good in a near fine dust jacket.

620. -. Another copy. Owner name on front flyleaf, fading to spine base; very good in a near fine dust jacket with a couple spots to the spine.

621. -. Another copy. Several pages stained, as is the cloth at the spine base; about very good in a rubbed, else near fine dust jacket.

622. -. Another copy. Second printing. Fine in a very good, internally tape-mended dust jacket.

623. -. Another copy. Ninth printing, by which time the paper stock used was thinner than the original stock. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

624. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Two pages of reviewer's notes on the rear two blanks. Some staining to the first dozen pages; spine slant; one cover corner creased. Very good in tall wrappers. An extremely scarce proof: we've only seen a couple of copies in the 20+ years since the book was published.

625. -. Same title, a book club edition. Some staining to top edge; near fine in a good, rubbed and stained dust jacket.

626. -. Same title, the first English edition (London: Picador, 1978). Only issued in softcover in the U.K. Very good in wrappers. Reprinted many times in England, the first printing is moderately difficult to locate. Blurbs and review excerpts on the rear cover by Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, Robert Stone, and others--the only place these comments have appeared in book form.

627. HERRGESELL, Oscar. Dear Margaret, Today I Died... San Antonio: Naylor (1974). Letters home from Vietnam by this Lieutenant Colonel who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1972, after serving several tours of duty there beginning in 1966-67. Compiled by his widow. A touching personal statement, one of the many thousands generated by the war. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else fine dust jacket. Scarce publication by a small regional press.

628. HERSH, Seymour M. My Lai 4. A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath. NY: Random House (1970). Investigative reporting by the reporter who first broke the story and won a George Polk Memorial Award for doing so, and is now one of the most well-known investigative reporters in the country. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

629. HERVEY, Harry. King Cobra. An Autobiography of Travel in French Indo-China. NY: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927. An account of travel through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in the Twenties, illustrated with photographs by the author and a fold-out map of the region. Hervey also wrote novels, some of them set in Southeast Asia. A near fine copy in an edge-chipped and creased pictorial dust jacket, about very good.

630. (History). Vietnam. Background to the Conflict. (Wellington): (Prime Minister's Office) (1965). A New Zealand "white paper" presenting the justification for that country's involvement in Vietnam--a perspective that has received little notice in the West. Stamped "Library of Congress Surplus/Duplicate." Heavily illustrated with photographs. Near fine in stapled wrappers.

631. (History). BONDS, Ray, ed. The Vietnam War. The Illustrated History of the Conflict in Southeast Asia. NY: Crown (1979). Second printing. Large quarto, heavily illustrated with photographs, both color and black and white, as well as charts, drawings, etc. A comprehensive overview of the conflict. Fine in a very good dust jacket with several edge tears.

632. HO CHI MINH. Signed Photograph. Undated, c. late 1930s. Original photograph of Ho, a studio portrait taken at a young age. In the original photography studio wrapper, with the photographer's stamp. Inscribed by Ho in "Friendship." The ink has bled slightly on the matte-finish photograph, and the signature has extended onto the original folder -- in effect authenticating it. Wrapper a bit chipped; in all, a very good example of an extremely rare signature, by one of the pivotal figures of the Twentieth Century, and certainly the most important Vietnamese leader of his day.

633. HO CHI MINH. Prison Diary. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1967. Fourth edition. Poems written by Ho while in prison in the early 1940s. Small price stamp front cover; near fine in wrappers and dust wrapper. With tipped-in photographic frontispiece.

634. HOLLAND, William E. Let a Soldier Die. NY: Delacorte (1984). The author's first book, a well-received novel of helicopter warfare by an author who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, as well as having been a Rhodes scholar. Remainder spray at bottom page edges; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.

635. HOUGRON, Jean. Reap the Whirlwind. NY: Farrar Straus Young, 1953. A novel of a French colonial and Vietnamese nationalist in Indo-china in the postwar period, prior to the open warfare that erupted. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

636. -. Another copy. Fine in a very good, modestly edgeworn dust jacket with splatterings on the back panel.

637. HUGGETT, William Turner. Body Count. NY: Putnam's (1973). A novel of Marines in Vietnam, winner of the "Putnam Award," and written by a former Marine. Called by Newman "one of the very best novels of Marines in Vietnam" (Newman 126). Spine buckled; very good in like dust jacket.

638. IND, Allison. The Fires of Tjepo. NY: Vantage Press (1955). Not a Vietnam novel, but a vanity press novel set in Indonesia on the eve of war breaking out in Korea. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a very good, well-rubbed dust jacket chipped at the crown. An unusual novel of Southeast Asia.

639. (Indoctrination). Know Your Enemy: The Viet Cong. (Washington, DC): Department of Defense (1966). Quarto pamphlet, illustrated with sketches from Vietnam by a combat artist. Combines standard anti-communist propaganda with a history of the Vietnamese communist movement and details of its current operation. Stamped "Library of Congress Surplus/Duplicate." Near fine in stapled wrappers.

640. (Infantry). Infantry in Vietnam. Fort Benning: Infantry Magazine (1967). Compilation of accounts of infantry operations in Vietnam, edited by LTC Albert M. Garland, with a Foreword by General William Westmoreland. Numerous personal accounts (the list of contributors in the back of the book runs to four pages), heavily illustrated with maps and photographs, detailing the operations from a platoon leader's perspective. Ownership sticker on half-title, otherwise a fine copy of an uncommon early collection of firsthand accounts, in a spine-tanned, near fine dust jacket.

641. (Informational Brochure). The Face of Viet-Nam. The Land & the People. (n.p.): (n.p.) (1966). A heavily illustrated travel brochure providing a cursory introduction to South Vietnam and its people, in magazine format. Stapled wrappers, only a good copy.

642. IRWIN, E.F. With Christ in Indochina. Harrisburg: Christian Publications (1937). Nonfiction account of Christian missions and missionaries in Indochina in the Thirties, both in Vietnam and Thailand ("Eastern Siam"). Illustrated with photographs. Some foxing to early pages and corruption to cloth; very good in a good, heavily chipped pictorial dust jacket vulnerable at the folds. Scarce and fragile.

643. JACK, Alex. Dragon Brood. Brookline: Kanthaka Press (1977). A novel of the Tet offensive written in the form of an epic poem, by a writer who covered Vietnam and Cambodia in 1967 for a syndicate of university newspapers, and who became active in the peace movement afterward. Remainder stripe; severely rubbed covers, thus only good in wrappers.

644. JACOB, John. Long Ride Back. NY: Thunder's Mouth (1988). Well-received first novel by an award-winning poet. This is the hardcover issue; there was also a simultaneous paperback. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

645. -. Another copy. This is an advance review copy. Also fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

646. JAMES, Allston. Attic Light. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979. One of the personal accounts of the war that straddles the line between autobiography and autobiographical fiction. The author served in Vietnam in 1969 and this, ostensibly, is an account of his time there and its effects on him afterwards. This copy is inscribed by the author in 1982. Together with two typed letters signed by the author from the same year, one of which accompanied the book to the recipient and gives background on its publication; the second letter thanks the recipient for payment, which was made in the form of exchange of another Vietnam book. Both letters are folded for mailing; the first is additionally creased. One mailing envelope is included. The boards of the book are foxed; still a near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with heavy foxing on the verso.

647. -. Another copy. Very slight abrasion front flyleaf; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.

648. JENSEN-STEVENSON, Monika and STEVENSON, William. Kiss the Boys Goodbye. How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam. (NY): Dutton (1990). Nonfiction, an exhaustive study asserting that American POWS were still being held in Vietnam in the late 1980s, and outlining a government conspiracy to suppress that fact and all information related to it. The catalyst for the authors' investigation was a comment made by controversial ex-POW Robert Garwood that he had seen many Americans still in captivity when he escaped in 1979. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

649. JOHNSON, Lyndon B. The Third Face of War. Washington, D.C.: Agency for International Development (1965). An excerpt from an address by Johnson to the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists at the White House on May 13, 1965. Stamped "Surplus/Duplicate." Johnson concentrates on the "hearts and minds" aspects of U.S. policy: schools built, textbooks donated, vaccinations administered, etc. Gouged at spine; very good in stapled wrappers.

650. JONES, James. Viet Journal. NY: Delacorte (1974). The uncorrected proof copy of the first book of nonfiction by the author of From Here To Eternity, a personal account of a trip to Vietnam. Faint spotting to foredge; else fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof.

651. JUST, Ward S. To What End. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. The author's first book, reportage and personal accounts from his 18 months in Vietnam covering the war for the Washington Post. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with mild spine-fading.

652. -. Another copy. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight fading and wear to the spine.

653. -. Another copy. Cloth mottled, spine cocked; very good in a price-clipped dust jacket with a significant, jagged chip at the top edge of the front panel, affecting the title.

654. JUST, Ward. Stringer. Boston: Atlantic Little Brown (1974). A novel about an intelligence agent on a guerrilla mission in Vietnam. Fine in a lightly spine-faded; else fine dust jacket.

655. JUST, Ward. Honor, Power, Riches, Fame and the Love of Women. NY: Dutton (1979). A collection of stories, some of them set in Southeast Asia. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

656. JUST, Ward. In the City of Fear. NY: Viking (1982). A novel of Washington, with the Vietnam war as a backdrop. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

657. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

658. JUST, Ward. The American Blues. NY: Viking (1984). A novel about a journalist who is obsessed with the Vietnam war, which he once covered. Minor foxing to page edges; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

659. (Justifications). The Legality of U.S. Participation in the Defense of Viet-Nam. (Washington, D.C): (Department of State) (1966). Reprint from the Department of State Bulletin, a memorandum submitted to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, largely concentrating on the issue of whether Congressional approval, and a formal declaration of war, were necessary for U.S. troops to be committed to combat in Vietnam. 16 pages. Stamped "Library of Congress Surplus/Duplicate." Near fine in stapled wrappers.

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