If I Die in a Combat Zone
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- very good
- ISBN 10
- 0714510068
- ISBN 13
- 9780714510064
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Calder & Boyars, 1973. Undetermined. very good. 1st UK Edition. 4p.l.,199pp. Small Ocatvo (approximately 8" tall) in original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine and dust jacket. Booksellers stamp on recto of rear free endpaper. very good First edition of the author's first book of his experiences in Vietnam, vividly portraying the conflict's worst aspects. O'Brien served in Vietnam, untilwounded and honourably discharged in 1970. O'Brien then joined the ranks of the Washington Post, for which he produced many of the pieces collected in this volume. 1973
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 105350
- Title
- If I Die in a Combat Zone
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0714510068
- ISBN 13
- 9780714510064
- Publisher
- Calder & Boyars
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
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- First Edition
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