The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
First edition, first printing of O'Brien's acclaimed ollection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. Publisher's black paper-covered boards over black cloth spine, lettered in gilt; pp. (xiv), 273. An about near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy with a slight lean, minor wear to boards. A couple faint smudges to text block edges, a few scattered pen annotations in text. Jacket shows just a hint of shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.