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O'Brien, Tim. Things They Carried. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1990.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 273 pages. Gilt edges, ribbon marker, gilt tooling on binding. Signed by the author on the first sheet following the front free endpaper. Frontispiece by Steve Karchin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
O'brien, Tim. The Things They Caried. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pa, 1990.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by author on second free endpaper. Precedes the trade first. Contains an preface by the author not included in the trade first. Full leather, gilt tooled. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
O'Brien, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, signed by Tim O'Brien, with an introduction by the author written especially for this edition. A ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, based on O'Brien's experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. The printed message from the publisher is laid in. Octavo. Full brown leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, three raised bands, marbled endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed First Edition Society
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
O'Brien, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; pp 273. First edition, signed by the author in blue pen on a blank page in the front. Beige leather binding with gilt cover and spine, three raised bands. All-edges gilt. Fine condition in all respects, binding very tight and square. Promotional slip in front. FINE [JB]
Seller: Book Bazaar, Ottawa, ON, Canada
O'BRIEN, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, New York, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade Edition after the Franklin Library edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of the Vietnam conflict. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
O Brian, Tim. The things they carried - signiert - signed. The Franklin Library, New York, 1990.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: aus der Reihe " The first signed edition ", auf Vorsatz signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller Tim O Brien (*1946), leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Ledereinband mit Golddruck, Goldschnitt, . Signed by author. Size: 8°
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
O'Brien, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1990.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited first edition, hardcover. Full brown leather binding with gilt letters and designs, gilt page edges, three raised bands on spine, silk ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. Two page color frontis. SIGNED by the author on front end paper. 273 pages. Original publisher's card to subscribers laid in.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
O'Brien Tim (Signed). The Things They Carried. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Penn., 1990.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description:
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
O'BRIEN, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1990.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book. Scratching to gilt on bulked fore-edge of text, otherwise about Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY TIM O BRIEN ON THE FRONT BLANK END PAGE. GRAY FULL LEATHER WITH GOLD GILT EDGING, LETTERING AND DECORATION. THREE RAISED BANDS ON THE SPINE. SILK RIBBON BOOKMARK, OCTAVO. PRISTINE CONDITION. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES.
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
O'BRIEN, Tim. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1990.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
O'Brien, Tim.. The Things They Carried.. Franklin Library., Franklin Center, 1990.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED limited edition. (Precedes all other editions) Close to fine in grey leather binding with gilt stamping & edges, with a satin marker ribbon, without dust jacket as issued. (Barely discernible hint of foxing at gilt edges. ) Features a memorable preface by O'Brien not available in any other edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
O'Brien, Tim. The things they carried. Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston, 1990.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, following a signed edition issued by the Franklin Library; 8vo, pp. [14], 273, [1]; fine in a fine, first issue, unclipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed on the title page, "To John & Lorna, Best wishes, Tim O'Brien."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.