Search Results: Vietnam from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 4to. 26cm x 19cm. Publisher's brown linen effect paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, minor edgewear, in a clean and strong photographic dustjacket, with some light wear to the spine ends, and a small triangle crease to the lower front corner. A very good copy. 120pp. Internally clean. A rather gruelling, few punches pulled, account of a 24 hour S&D mission with India Company, 3rd battalion, 1st marines, in and around the village of Tha Binh on the 13th February 1967. The "13/13" of the title refers to 13 men wounded or killed on the 13th. There's an introduction by Chet Huntley, the NBC anchor whose "Brinkley-Huntley Report" was required watching during the conflict. As a 1967 photographic essay "13/13" is a surprisingly gritty piece of war journalism, it doesn't shy away from brutality and cruelty on the part of US troops, and it goes a fair way to giving those actions context rather than excusing them, and… Read More

New York: World Publishing, (1967). First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Textured cloth; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. Tight, straight, and clean; a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap); complete but with overall rubbing and light soil; Very Good. Photo-essay documenting everyday life for American G.I.s in Vietnam by the noted Texas journalist, aviator, and radio personality.

Newark: Abas Magazine, 1969. First Edition. Three issues. Tabloid; on newsprint; each issue 12pp. Horizontal mailing folds (as issued); mailing labels to front pages; text slightly toned - Good or better, and complete. Scarce, short-lived underground paper produced by a Newark, New Jersey high-school collective. Masthead of no. 7 suggests that it is the first issue to be produced by offset in tabloid format; earlier issues were (apparently) mimeographed and sold only by mail. The masthead indicates that Abas was the successor publication to a high-school underground mimeo sheet named Column,"suggesting that the paper's editor(s) were either still in or just out of high school when these issues of Abas were produced. Heavy on free UPI syndicated material; the original writing at a suitably low level to support the high school thesis. The paper appears (per OCLC) to have ceased publication after ten issues. Institutional holdings are scattered and meagre; none others in commerce (2013).

Boston: Beacon Press, 1972. First Revised Edition. 4to. 28cm x 22cm. Publisher's red pictorial card covers. Minor creasing and soiling, most visibly to the lower corner of the front cover, price discreetly excised with a hole punch to the upper front corner. Clean and sharp, a very good copy. 289pp. Internally clean. A very highly detailed and in-depth assessment of the resources, manpower, and costs in play during the air war component of the war in Vietnam with a particular focus upon the intangible nature of that conflict to the average American. An air war is distant and notionally inaccessible to the general public, is the general argument of the work, which was compiled initially in a smaller report in November 1971, then expanded upon by the Anti-War Study group at Cornell University and a wider body of contributors including Rapahel Littauer, Saha Amarasingham, Chandler Morse, Norman Uphoff, and Carl Sagan, amongst a number of others assessing the impact upon economies, ecologies, diverse… Read More

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial boards; dustjacket; 148pp; illus. Flexible vinyl record tipped on inside of rear board (as issued). Mild rubbing to board edges, touch of toning at spine ends; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities, a shade sunned on spine; still Very Good or better. Recipes, philosophy, and photographs from the Massachusetts restaurant made famous by Arlo Guthrie's 1969 counterculture anthem. In addition to photographs by Howell Conant and Benno Friedman, includes stills from the 1969 Arthur Penn film that starred Guthrie, James Broderick and Pat Quinn.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper to Detroit newspaperman William Noble: "To Bill Noble / with many thanks and best wishes," signed twice, dated March, 1973. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 207pp; maps. A fine copy in unclipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Analysis of the 1967 Detroit riots from the perspective of a Detroit Juvenile Court judge. A valuable account, filling in many personal anecdotes not included in the 1968 President's Commission report.

Beverly Hills: Another Mother for Peace, 1971. Octavo (23cm). Yellow softcover titled in black on front; [4],123pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Datebook from Another Mother for Peace an anti-war advocacy group founded in 1967 in opposition to the Vietnam War. AMP sold various merchandise stamped with the group's logo, which included the slogan "War is not healthy for children and other living things," to raise money for activism efforts. [63046].

New York: Summit Books, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, advance issue. Octavo (23.5cm); printed card wrappers; [ii],[14],15-411,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Modest wear to wrapper extremities, with a faint vertical crease to spine and left edge of front wrapper, and a faint scuff to rear cover; contents clean; Very Good+. Debut work by the author of Forrest Gump, a novel of the Vietnam War. NEWMAN 187.

Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1968. First Edition. 4to. 26cm x 18cm. Publisher's photographic paper covered boards. Some rubbing and scuffing, small tear to head of spine, a strong, solid copy. 72pp. Internally clean, ink ownership to front flyleaf, illustrated throghout with black and white photgraphs by Joe Gooden. A photographic essay detailing the often dangerous work of the World Vision Organisation in Vietnam during the war. Mainly a Christian organisation with an interest in discipleship, World Vision also embarked upon agricultural efforts, medical care projects and other humanitarian efforts aimed at alleviating the suffering of Vietnamese civilians. It was dangerous work, and the death and imprisonment of aid workers and missionary staff was not an uncommon occurence.

New York: Liveright, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial cloth-covered boards; 158pp. Some trivial dusting at board edges, still a very Near Fine copy in the publisher's boards; issued without a dustwrapper. Pelfrey's first book, a highly realistic Vietnam novel based on his own infantry experience in the Central Highlands. Pelfrey published one other Vietnam novel, Hamburger Hill (Avon, 1987), but spent most of his career as an in-house publicist for General Motors.

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's grey cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, light edgewear and some minor sunning to the spine ends, in a clean, bright, and strong dustjacket with a little corresponding fraying to the head and tail of the spne. A very good, clean copy. 445pp. Internally clean. Ostensibly one of a legion of novels that deal with a green young officer finding out he has virtually no margin for error, this is one of the distinguished few novels of the era that is approved of by veterans, and is widely considered to be one of the very best and most authentic pieces of Vietnam fiction. The authenticity comes as less of surprise when it's considered that Huggett fought with the 3rd Marine Div. in 1968-1969, and later as a Pacification Advisor in the never ending struggle to win hearts and minds. [Newman: 131].

Tokyo: Stars & Stripes, 1968. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 122pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced $1.00 on front flap, mildly dusted, still Near Fine. A well-preserved copy. Poems by members of the US Armed Forces in Vietnam, the majority by enlisted men and most of a patriotic nature.

New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. 24cm x 16.5cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt and copper to spine and front board, clean and strong, in a bright, solid pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 862pp. Internally clean. Publisher's review copy with review slip laid in.

[Berkeley]: Berkeley Graphic Arts, [1969]. Original broadside, with text offset printed in black on lime green stock, measuring 33cm x 25.25cm (ca.13"x 10"). Modest wear and handling, with some creasing and soil to lower corners, and a small triangular chip toward lower left edge; Very Good. Small broadside produced for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a massive series of demonstrations held in cities across the country on October 15, 1969. Given the place of publication, this could likely have been used at the Moratorium Rally at UC Berkeley, held at noon at Lower Sproul Plaza, an event which included speeches by Fanny Lou Hamer, Ron Dellums, Joe Cole, and Dan Siegel (cf. UC Berkeley, "The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Recording Project: Anti-Vietnam War Protests).

[Columbus]: Logan Elm Press / Ohio State University, 1993. First Edition. One of 250 copies, this being no.239. Broadside, with text and illustrations printed in black and in colors on white Rives Heavyweight paper, measuring 12" x 18" (30.5cm x 45.75cm). While not called for, this copy has been signed in pencil by both O'Brien and illustrator Jack Schifman. A Fine copy, reproducing an excerpt from O'Brien's 1990 Vietnam novel The Things They Carried. Published on the occasion of O'Brien's reading for the Creative Writing Program at Ohio State University in the Fall of 1993.

N.p.: S.i., [1972]. Original photographic broadside, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 35.5cm. Mild handling and scattered dust-soil, with a few faint creases and short tears to extremities; Very Good. Anti-war broadside drawing attention to the attrocities perpetrated on Vietnamese children by American servicemen during the war. Upper half reproduces a photograph of two children, bloodied and bearing facial burns; the lower half features a quote by U.S. Presidential nominee George S. McGovern: "In the name of Humanity and all that is decent, let us end the bombardment of Indochina: Let us bring our prisoners and troops home: Before we lose the sould of our nation." Not found in OCLC.

Chicago: Chicago Peace Council, N.d. [1974?]. Broadside (bulletin board flyer), 11" x 8-1/2", mimeographed, printed recto-only on bond. Printing slightly irregular; light wear; Very Good. Announces a lecture by ex-Chicago Seven peace activist Dave Dellinger, offering a first-hand update on the status of 200,000 Vietnamese civilian political prisoners still being held one year after the Peace Treaty of January 27, 1973.

[Chiangmai, Thailand: Benya, 2000]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],326pp.; map endpapers, text illus. throughout. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. English translation of a novel set among the Hmong people of Laos during the Vietnam War.

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's red cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt and silver gilt to spine and front board, clean and bright, in a striking red and yellow dustjacket with very slight wear, a very good copy indeed. 211pp. Internally clean. Fore-edge untrimmed. A compelling New Journalistic reconstruction of the events of a spring day in 1972 in Missouri, where a group of local businessmen went to war with the local undesirables; a group of disillusioned Vietnam veterans planning an anti war parade, the ensuing violence resulted in the deaths of four people. Eszterhas is now better known for being the screenwriter for a slew of 1980's thrillers like "Jagged Edge" and "Basic Instinct", but in the early 1970's he was one of the noted voices of New Journalism, the flowing, narrative, gonzo barrage of informative lyricism that in many ways shaped our understanding of the late 60's and early 70's, most notably in the shape of people like Hunter S. Thompson, and… Read More

N.p.: by the author, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 46pp. Limited to 100 copies, printed at the Hooiberg Printing Co., Epe, Netherlands. Inscribed below limitation statement: "For the promoter of good music & poetry - Izzy Young / Ted Grieder," undated. Mild external dusting, else Fine. Izzy Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, a hub of the folk revival as well as of the nascent Lower East Side literary scene of the Sixties.