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660. KAIKO, Takeshi. Into a Black Sun. Tokyo: Kodansha (1980). A novel by a Japanese reporter, about the Vietnam war in the years 1964 and '65. Kaiko covered the war during those years and was a "guest" of the Viet Cong for a time--i.e., detained by them. The protagonist of this novel is also a Japanese journalist covering the war. This novel was first published in Japan in 1968, where it won the Mainichi Cultural Prize. Slight corner bump; else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket.
661. KAMMHOLZ, Larry P. Moc Hoa. (Oshkosh): (Starboard Publishing) (1990). Quarto, softbound. "A Vietnam Medical-Military Adventure," the personal account of a doctor's year in Vietnam, in diary format. Heavily illustrated with his photographs, both black-and-white and color, plus evocative line drawings by Theodore William Gostas, identified as a "Combat Artist" and a POW in Vietnam, 1968-1973. This is an advance review copy, with a slip pasted to the inside front cover so indicating. Signed by the author. Near fine.
662. -. Another copy, not a review copy. Also signed by the author. Near fine.
663. KARLIN, Wayne. Lost Armies. NY: Henry Holt (1988). A novel about a Vietnam vet teaching English to Vietnamese refugees outside Washington D.C., and a "tripwire" vet living in the marshes nearby, whose actions are terrorizing the refugees. A slim, thoughtful novel by one of the editors of the important early anthology of short stories by Vietnam vets, Free Fire Zone. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
664. KARLIN, Wayne. Us. NY: Holt (1993). His fourth novel, about a Vietnam vet who owns a bar in Bangkok, and treating the MIA issue at some length. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
665. KEENE, John. Pettibone's Law. NY: Simon & Schuster (1991). A first novel by a former fighter pilot in Vietnam--a black comedy about the air war and the aftermath of Vietnam for one of the veteran pilots. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author in the year of publication. Dust jacket blurbs by Joseph Heller and Col. David Hackworth, among others.
666. KERRY, John, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The New Soldier. NY: Macmillan (1971). The scarce hardcover issue of the first edition of this compendium of pieces and numerous photographs by the important antiwar veterans' group, including John Kerry, currently U.S. Senator from the state of Massachusetts. Quarto, fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
667. KIM, Don'o. My Name is Tian. (Sydney): Angus and Robertson (1968). Korean novel of Vietnam, spanning the years from before Dien Bien Phu to the arrival and advances of American troops there. Inscribed by the author in 1969, and with an autograph letter signed tipped in at the rear which comments on, among other things, the critical reception the book was getting at the time ("From the responses I've had so far I fell [sic] it is a failure..."). A very scarce novel, not in Newman (second edition) although it concerns Americans fighting in Vietnam, if somewhat less prominently than the Koreans fighting there. Fine in a near fine dust jacket rubbed at the edges and folds.
668. KIRK, Donald. Wider War. The Struggle for Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. NY: Praeger (1971). Reporting and analysis by a longtime Southeast Asia correspondent. Remainder spot; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
669. KIRK, Donald. Tell it to the Dead. Memories of a War. Chicago: Nelson-Hall (1975). This book is a personal account by a journalist whose coverage of the war for the Chicago Tribune won him two major journalism awards. This is the simultaneous hardcover issue. Fine in a dust jacket with one edge tear but abraded on the spine; about near fine. In our experience, quite uncommon.
670. KIRKWOOD, James. Some Kind of Hero. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell (1975). A novel of a POW in Vietnam, by one of the creators of A Chorus Line. Later made into a well-received movie [see above for Film Ephemera]. Warmly inscribed by the author. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
671. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by the author. Tapebound wrappers. Fine.
672. KOVIC, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July. NY: McGraw-Hill (1976). One of the first of the personal accounts to come out in the aftermath of the war, and one of the angriest. Of all the memoirs prompted by experience in Vietnam, this one still resonates with a bitter irony that has not been surpassed, and is a vivid reminder of the human costs of that war. The searing pain of stories of this kind is what makes the notion of reconciliation and recovery meaningful. Kovic was, literally, born on the Fourth of July, which makes him a fitting spokesman for all who paid the price of injury and betrayal in Vietnam. Basis for an award-winning film. This is an advance review copy with a letter laid in from a McGraw-Hill editor (and novelist herself). Fine in a very good, edge-chipped dust jacket.
673. -. Another copy, this being a complimentary copy presented to Hal Ashby of United Artists. Near fine in a dust jacket with considerable edge chipping.
674. -. Another copy. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
675. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Creasing to spine and front cover; still near fine in wrappers.
676. KRUEGER, Carl. Wings of the Tiger. NY: Frederick Fell (1966). An early novel of the Air Force in Vietnam. The publisher touts this on the front panel of the dust jacket as "The First Novel of Vietnam"--an exercise in hyperbole, but it is, in fact, very early: as mentioned above, Newman's bibliography only lists five novels of the war published prior to 1966. Spots to top edge; else fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket.
677. -. Same title, fourth printing. Inscribed by the author in 1971. Laid into this copy is a reprint of a piece read into the Congressional Record in October, 1966, praising the book, and mentioning how much the President liked it as well. Fine in a rubbed, very good dust jacket.
678. LA FOUNTAINE, George. The Long Walk. NY: Putnam's (1986). Novel about an ex-POW suffering an extreme case of PTSD. Faint remainder mark to top edge and very slight corner bump; otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
679. LAKE, Bruce R. 1500 Feet Over Vietnam. Haverhill: Almine (1990). Personal account, the memoirs of a Marine helicopter pilot, taken from his journals, letters home, and recollections 20 years later. Only issued in wrappers. This is a fine copy and signed by the author.
680. LAMB, Helen B. Studies on India and Vietnam. NY: Monthly Review Press (1976). Posthumous collection of articles and essays by the author of Vietnam's Will to Live, an important study of the historical origins of Vietnamese resistance to foreign domination. Edited, and inscribed by her husband, Corliss Lamont, in the year of publication. Slight foxing; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
681. LANG, Daniel. Casualties of War. NY: McGraw-Hill (1969). A nonfiction account of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a Vietnamese girl by four American soldiers, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, and was much later the basis for the well-received and controversial Brian de Palma film of the same name. This is the issue in wrappers; there was a simultaneous hardcover that is, in our experience, exceedingly scarce. One edge tear, with associated creasing. Very good in wrappers.
682. -. Same title, the first British edition, re-named Incident on Hill 192 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1970). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon.
683. LARTÉGUY, Jean. The Centurions. NY: Dutton (1962). The advance reading copy of the first American edition of this novel about French paratroops in Indo-China and Algeria, written by one of the most experienced French war correspondents in Southeast Asia. Fine in wrappers.
684. LAWTON, David. A Lovely Country. NY: Harcourt Brace (1995). Review copy of this first novel by a former Marine in Vietnam and, later, civilian pacification officer. Somewhat like Robert Olen Butler's The Alleys of Eden, this novel focuses on the last years of the war and, in particular, the strong affection for Vietnam that developed in many of the Americans serving there. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
685. LEDERER, William J. and BURDICK, Eugene. The Ugly American. NY: W.W. Norton (1958). One of the early books on Americans in Vietnam, covering the same people and events as Graham Greene's The Quiet American, but from a different viewpoint. Made into a not-very-successful film, this book was a huge bestseller, reprinted numerous times and distributed through BOMC; it became so much a part of the culture that its title became a buzzword for a certain kind of American approach in the Third World--albeit one which was used in a manner somewhat different from the authors' intentions. An extremely common book, the first printing is nonetheless quite scarce. This is an advance review copy in the first issue dust jacket (blurb by "John T.[sic] Marquand"). Laid in is a typed letter signed by Lederer (as "Bill"), explaining the reasons for the book's existence; in part: "...to correct what we feel is one of America's major failures overseas: - the poor choosing, the wretched training, and the ineffective conduct of too many of the 2 1/2 million Americans who represent us overseas." The book is very good in an about very good dust jacket with chipping at the corners and extremities. The letter is folded in sixths and has two incidental tape fragments on the edges; a note in the upper corner explains the delay of the letter; near fine.
686. -. Another copy. A later printing. Fine in a near fine, later state dust jacket. Quite a nice reading copy.
687. LINN, Bill. Missing in Action. NY: Avon (1981). Paperback original. A novel of an American POW who escapes from his captors and journeys 350 miles through the jungle toward Saigon and freedom. Near fine in wrappers.
688. LITTLE, Loyd. Parthian Shot. NY: Viking (1975). A review copy of the author's 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. Fine in a fine dust jacket with one nick at the crown.
689. -. Another copy. Tape shadows to pastedowns; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
690. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. "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.
691. LUCE, Don and SOMMER, John. Vietnam. The Unheard Voices. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press (1969). Second printing. A personal account by two volunteers who spent many years in Vietnam, learning the culture and the language, and who wrote this book in hope that it would help the Vietnamese voices to be heard in this country, something that has still not happened to any great extent. Fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
692. (M16A1). EISNER, Will. The M16A1 Rifle. Operation and Preventive Maintenance. (Washington): (Dept. of the Army) (1969). Instruction manual for the M-16, illustrated by the famous cartoonist and replete with buxom blondes and double entendres (e.g., a chapter on "How to Strip Your Baby"). A humorous, but deadly serious manual, interesting in the way it makes a technical task accessible by using humor, comic-simple illustrations, and a touch of sex. A fine copy, still sealed in plastic.
693. MAHONEY, Tim. Hollaran's World War. NY: Delacorte (1985). A first novel about a vet trying to come to terms with himself and the world, after the war. Label removal shadow front pastedown; still a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
694. MAITLAND, Derek. The Only War We've Got. NY: Morrow, 1970. The first American edition of this black comedy about the Vietnam war and American foreign policy. The true first edition was published in England; the author was a British correspondent in Vietnam for parts of 1966-68, including the Tet offensive in 1968. Fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
695. MANGIOLARDO, Mike. My Days in Vietnam. NY: Vantage Press (1969). A vanity press publication of Mangiolardo's diary of his tour in Vietnam, posthumously published by his wife. Illustrated with numerous photographs, presumably mostly the author's snapshots. Like Ron Kovic, Mangiolardo was born on the 4th of July. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
696. MANO, D. Keith. War is Heaven! Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. A novel about U.S. soldiers at war in a fictional South American republic, with obvious parallels to Vietnam. Remainder speckling to lower page edges; near fine in a very good, second issue dust jacket, with review excerpts on the front panel.
697. (Map). Khiêm-ích. (n.p.): U.S. Army Map Service, 1962. Sheet 6242 III, Series L701. An early Army topographical map of a small section of Vietnam, compiled from aerial photography in the late Fifties and other sources in the early Sixties. With all roads, trails and dwellings marked. Approximately 29 1/2" x 22". Folded in ninths. Fine.
698. (Marines). The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1973. An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps, 1974. A collection of articles on Marine Corps activities in Vietnam, along with a 20-page bibliography of reference materials. Quarto, very good in wrappers.
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699. MARSHALL, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone. An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little Brown (1987). An oral history--twenty women's stories--and one of the first books to attempt to present a representative sample of women's experiences in the war. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
700. MARSHALL, S.L.A. West to Cambodia. NY: Cowles (1968). One of a number of volumes on the war by this important military historian. Marshall, the author of Pork Chop Hill, about a Korean War battle, became embroiled in controversy when his "oral-history" technique of reconstructing the particulars of a battlefield led him to the conclusion that most fighting men did not even discharge their weapons in the heat of battle, a theory which was at first embraced and acted on by military officials, and later challenged and discredited. Illustrated with sketches by the author. Two labels front flyleaf; else fine in a fine dust jacket with slight wear at the crown. This title was reissued in 1984.
701. MARTIN, Troy Kennedy. Beat on a Damask Drum. NY: Dutton, 1960. The author's first book, a novel of Indochina in the days after the fall of Dien Bien Phu. Owner bookplate front flyleaf; else fine in a spine-tanned, near fine dust jacket with wear at the extremities. An uncommon title.
702. MASON, Bobbie Ann. In Country. NY: Harper & Row (1985). Highly praised first novel about a young girl's search for her father, who died in Vietnam before she was born. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with scratches to the rear panel. Made into a well-received movie.
703. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1986). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
704. MASON, Van Wyck. Saigon Singer. Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. A "Major North" mystery, part of a popular series of action/espionage novels, this title being set in Saigon. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
705. MAY, Someth. Cambodian Witness. London: Faber & Faber (1986). A personal account of the Khmer Rouge regime's efforts to remake Cambodian society in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, written by a refugee who lost 10 of his 13 family members in the first years after the Khmer Rouge takeover. Introduction by award-winning poet and Far East correspondent, James Fenton. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
706. MAYER, Tom. The Weary Falcon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short stories by a writer who went to Vietnam twice, in 1966-67 and again in 1969, as a reporter. Mayer had published a well-received collection of stories seven years earlier, and been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford's writing program, which had also graduated such highly regarded writers as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, Tillie Olsen and others. Short, potent stories, as unexpected as war itself. If there are better stories about the war, we haven't seen them. A book rife with humor and cynicism, pain and sorrow, with stories that cut to the bone. Spiralbound galley sheets. Covers sunned; near fine. The book itself is uncommon, having been published at the height of public antipathy toward the war. The proof is rare.
707. -. Same title, the first trade edition. Previous owner name, otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket.
708. MAYER, Tom. Climb for the Evening Star. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Personal account about flying, including reminiscences of riding, as a reporter, in helicopter combat in Vietnam. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear. Scarce.
709. McAFEE, John P. A Slow Walk in Sad Rain. (NY): Warner (1993). A novel based on the author's time as a Green Beret in Laos. Fine in dust jacket.
710. McALLISTER, Bruce. Dream Baby. NY: TOR (1989). The first novel about the CIA's experiments with mind control and ESP in the Vietnam war. This is the second science fiction novel dealing with the war, healers, and psychic or occult phenomena--Elizabeth Scarborough's The Healer's War, published in 1988 and winner of the Nebula Award, being the other. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
711. -. Same title, the author's manuscript archive for this title. Please inquire.
712. McCARTHY, Mary. Vietnam. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World (1967). First person account of the author's trip to Vietnam, which she undertook "looking for material damaging to the American interest," as she explains frankly. Only issued in wrappers in this country, which did not please the author--who was, at that point in time, a highly praised, award-winning novelist and one of the leading women of letters in this country, and who felt that her work deserved a more formal, elaborate trade publication; she felt, justifiably one would have to say, that issuing the book only in softcover both trivialized it and also made it less likely to receive reviewer attention. Fine.
713. McCARTHY, Mary. Hanoi. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World (1968). The second of her "pamphlets" about -- and against -- the war, this one includes an account of her trip to Hanoi as well as an exchange of letters between the author and Diana Trilling about the implications of abandoning the war effort in Vietnam. Blended dampstaining to bottom covers; still about near fine in wrappers.
714. -. Same title, the first British edition, and the first hardcover edition (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1968). This was writer Paul Theroux's copy, and has a carbon typescript of his review of the book laid in. Also laid in is a galley proof of Theroux's review of McCarthy's The Seventeenth Degree, a collection of Vietnam war pieces that included the contents of this volume. In addition, there is a notice from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters announcing McCarthy's death (in 1989) laid into the book. Waterstain to top edge; otherwise near fine in a very good dust jacket.
715. McCLARY, Clebe and BARKER, Diane. Living Proof. Atlanta: Crossroads Books (1979). Third printing of a first person account of "Vietnam hero Lt. Clebe McClary," who was badly injured in Vietnam and later became an evangelist. Foreword by Tom Landry, longtime Dallas Cowboys coach. Covers rubbed and creased; very good in wrappers. Illustrated. Signed by the author.
716. McCOY, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. NY: Harper & Row (1972). History and analysis of the regional drug trade and its relation to the established governments in the area. Laid into this copy is a Reuters News Agency teletype printout announcing the book's publication and delineating CIA objections to publication. The printout is fading blue ink on green paper. The book has some foxing to the top edge and is otherwise fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
717. -. Another copy. One slight corner bump; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of edgewear, particularly at the spine extremities. The cloth of this copy is a brighter red than that of the above copy, which is a muted brick color.
718. McNAMARA, Robert S. In Retrospect. The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. (NY): Times Books (1995). Uncorrected proof copy of this enormously controversial history and memoir written by the Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson when the buildup in Vietnam took place. Fine in wrappers, and signed by the author.
719. -. Same title, the first trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
720. (McNAMARA, Robert). "The Tasks of Defense" in Why Vietnam. (Ottawa): (U.S. Information Service) (n.d.). The text of McNamara's statement before the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on August 4, 1965, printed together with Dean Rusk's statement, "The Task of Diplomacy," from the day before. Titles and authors' names are underlined in red pencil in a couple of places; otherwise very good in stapled wrappers. An early, official commentary on the war.
721. MESHAD, Shad. Captain for Dark Mornings. Playa Del Ray: Creative Image Associates (1982). Autobiographical account of the author's service as a "psych officer" at the 95th Evac hospital, in Danang, and his conflicts with the Army brass. Fine in a rubbed, very good dust jacket with a couple of short tears at the folds.
722. MEYER, Ted. Body Count. Smithtown: Exposition Press (1982). Vanity press novel of three Vietnam vets who "seek revenge against a country that stripped them of their dignity." Cloth mottled; front hinge starting; about very good in a very good, rubbed dust jacket.
723. -. Another copy. Like the above, this copy also states "First Edition," but the endpapers differ and the ISBN number now appears on the jacket. The jacket was once stuck to the cloth on the front panel, and both bear evidence of separation; approximately very good in a near fine dust jacket.
724. MILLER, John Grider. The Bridge at Dong Ha. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press (1989). Account of one Marine's accomplishment in destroying a strategic bridge, saving his comrades from the approaching enemy and forestalling a major invasion. Boards bumped; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
725. MILLER, Carolyn Paine. Captured! Chappaqua: Christian Herald Books (1977). A mother's story of her family's imprisonment in 1975 by the Viet Cong while on missionary duty. One of the few books which is both a missionary tale and a POW account. Near fine in a good, internally tape-repaired dust jacket.
726. MILLER, Kenn. Tiger the Lurp Dog. Boston: Little Brown (1983). The author's first book, a well-received novel about a LRRP team and their mascot. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small gutter tear on the rear flap fold. The author served with a LRRP team in Vietnam.
727. (Mission Statement). Our Mission in Vietnam. (Washington, D.C): (Department of the Army) (1964). An early official statement about the rationale for the U.S. presence in Vietnam, preceding the massive troop buildup that began in 1965. Twelve pages. Stamped "Library of Congress Surplus/Duplicate"; very good in stapled wrappers.
728. MOLLOY, Tom. The Green Line. (Charlestown): Charles River Books (1982). A well-received first novel about a Vietnam vet suffering from what came to be known as post-traumatic stress disorder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
729. MONTAGUE, J.J. The Cong Kiss. Chatsworth: Canyon Books (1974). Soft-core pornography about a female espionage agent who uncovers a drug smuggling ring based in Southeast Asia that is a front for a plot to overthrow the U.S. Price sticker front cover; very good in wrappers. Uncommon.
730. MOORE, Gene D. The Killing at Ngo Tho. NY: Norton (1967). An early novel of the war, about a "professional soldier," published while the author was serving in Vietnam. This is an ex-library copy and bears every corresponding flaw: circulation envelope, tape residue to boards and endpapers; glue residue to rear free endpaper; notes in the margins. A fair, reading copy only, in a dust jacket that was mostly spared; about near fine.
731. MOORE, Lt. Gen. Harold G. and GALLOWAY, Joseph L. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young. NY: Random House (1992). The advance reading copy of this well-received account of the battle of Ia Drang, in November, 1965. Written in the form of an oral history, with interviews with many of the surviving participants comprising a significant portion of the book. Fine in wrappers.
732. MOORE, Robin. The Green Berets. NY: Crown (1965). The very scarce first edition of this novelistic treatment of the war and its heroes. The book was submitted to the Defense Department for clearance; it contained details of South Vietnamese corruption and the torture of a Viet Cong sympathizer and as such was considered a "security" risk. Under pressure from the government, a wraparound band was added to the book, proclaiming "Fiction Stranger than Fact!," apparently to strengthen the impression that the book was "fiction." The first line of the book, however, reads "The Green Berets is a book of truth," and the author goes on to claim veracity, if not absolute accuracy with regard to names and details, for the book's contents. A fascinating bit of literary history, most of which was rendered moot by the fact that the book was a phenomenal success and bestseller; the pressure exerted by the government to back away from unpleasant truths could not match the unremitting commercial pressure of the book's popular appeal, not to mention that the book's overall stance was decidedly pro-American. Basis for the John Wayne film. An interesting footnote in the history of the literature of the war. This copy lacks the added wraparound band; it also lacks head and toe bands. Fine in a very good dust jacket with one edge chip at the base of the rear spine fold.
733. -. Another copy, this being the more common issue with the head and toe bands. Owner stamp to flyleaf and title page; near fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with several small edge chips.
734. -. Another copy. Cloth mottled; good in a fair, much chipped jacket split at the folds.
735. -. Another copy. Cloth stained; a good copy only, lacking the dust jacket.
736. -. Same title. A special "limited edition" printed up from sheets of the 19th printing (1969), especially for The Green Beret Holding Company. Different paper, binding and endpapers; jacket states "nineteenth printing." Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
737. -. Another copy of the special edition. Remainder dot; tape shadow front flyleaf; otherwise fine in a good, chipped, rubbed and spine-faded dust jacket.
738. MOORE, Robin and ROTHBLATT, Henry. Court Martial. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. A novel about the murder trial of several Green Berets accused of killing a Vietnamese double agent; based on an actual incident. This copy is very good in a very good dust jacket with a small waterstain on the rear panel. Inscribed by Rothblatt. Uncommon.
739. MORRELL, David. First Blood. NY: Evans (1972). The author's first book, a well-written adventure novel of a Vietnam vet, which introduced the "Rambo" character into American culture long before the movie of that name. Trace foxing to bottom edge; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
740. -. Another copy. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
741. -. Another copy. This is an ex-library copy, replete with circulation envelope, discard label, tape residue and fingerprints. A fair copy in a very good, chipped and spine-faded dust jacket.
742. MORRIS, Jim. Strawberry Soldier. NY: Ace (1972). Paperback original by a highly decorated former Special Forces officer about a vet who discovers LSD. A "cult" novel in the early Seventies. Some rubbing; about near fine. Scarce.
743. MORRIS, Jim. War Story. Boulder: Sycamore Island Books (1979). Personal account by a Green Beret who worked and fought with the Montagnards during his three tours in Vietnam. An important and well-written account by a highly decorated soldier and a professional writer -- the author of The Strawberry Soldier and later a correspondent for Soldier of Fortune magazine. Near fine in a near fine, edge-rubbed dust jacket.
744. MORRISON, C.T. The Flame in the Ice Box. NY: Exposition Press (1968). An early vanity press novel of a squad of GI's who are ambushed, one of whom is captured and forced to reflect on his role in the war. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with one open edge tear. Very scarce.
745. MURPHY, Yannick. The Sea of Trees. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. The advance reading copy. A first novel set in Indochina in the 1940s, based in part on the author's family history. Near fine in wrappers.
746. -. Same title, an early advance copy in 8 1/2" x 11" ringbound wrappers, with the title, Tian's Music. Shot from double-spaced typescript. Fine.