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Saigon Cemetery. Signed copy.
by [Vietnam]. [Poetry]. BERRY, D.C. [David Chapman Berry]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed by the author at the ffep. 12mo, 50 pp. Publisher's gray paper over boards backed in blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in plain acetate dust jacket.
A Fine copy in dust jacket with a one & a half inch tear in the upper panel.
David Chapman Berry's first book, this copy inscribed & signed on the ffep: "For Jack/ I learn by going where/ I have to go ~ / Theodore Roethe/ Best/ David." Berry was a medic in Vietnam His poignant poetry uses the voices of dead combatants to describe their experiences.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000600
- Title
- Saigon Cemetery. Signed copy.
- Author
- [Vietnam]. [Poetry]. BERRY, D.C. [David Chapman Berry]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens, Georgia
- Date Published
- (1972)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Vietnam War, David Chapman Berry, Mississippi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Signed; Vietnam, Vietnam War;
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