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The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up
NY, Morrow, 1981. An epistolary novel of a gay medic in Vietnam, by a Marine Corps veteran of the war. Inscribed by the author: "To ___ ___, This may not be the true story of Vietnam that you're looking for, and I certainly hope it's not the Vietnam your brother served in, but I tried. Thank you very much for picking up my boy./ Relentlessly/ Charles Nelson. Mild foxing to prelims and text block; very good in a near fine dust jacket with modest foxing to verso. Jacket blurb by Richard Hooker, author of MASH. A landmark novel, uncommon signed. [#036652] $200

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