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Dispatches.
by Herr, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket.
Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in good or better dust jacket with soiling (including a faint cup ring on the front panel), browning at the spine, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch closed tear.
"Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death." ~William S. Burroughs, excerpted from the dust jacket.
Synopsis
Michael Herr is also the author of Kubrick , The Big Room , and Walter Winchell , and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket . He lives in upstate New York. Robert Stone, a National Book Award-winner, lives in New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1892
- Title
- Dispatches.
- Author
- Herr, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Vietnam War, Communism, Military History, Journalism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; Communism; Journalism; Vietnam, Vietnam War;
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