Search Results: Vietnam, Vietnam War from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, (1985). First edition, "Commemorative Copy for the Dear America Celebration, May 6, 1985." This copy signed in green ink by General William Childs Westmoreland on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), 316 pages including full page illustrations from photographs & endpaper maps. Publisher's gilt-lettered off white paper over boards backed in blue cloth lettered in red on the spine, in slipcase to which the program for the celebration is pasted (as issued) to the front panel (12 pages, stapled light card covers).
Binding soiled, spine lettering dull, corners bumped & rubbed, otherwise Good. The attached program has rusted staples, brief evidence of bio-predation, &minor foxing affecting the front cover, still Good or so. The slipcase is lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
"The New York Veterans Memorial Commission is pleased to present you with this commemorative copy of "Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam" to mark this very special occasion." 
~Quoted… Read More

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.

Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1975. First edition, this a presentation copy for Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, signed on a laid in sheet by author Hewes & Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr., Chief of Military History. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xvii & 452 pages, illustrated, plus [10] folded leaves of plates. Publisher's textured maroon fabricoid simulating crushed morocco lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in gilt with the Seal of the United States & the name of presentee Moore on the upper cover.
Spine gilt a bit rubbed, otherwise very good or better.
The first volume in the special studies series published by the Center of Military History, United States Army, this a unique copy which was presented to Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore. Moore was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor at the Battle of Drang during the Vietnam War. He wrote about that experience in We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young which was made into a movie starring Mel… Read More

Wheaton, Illinois: Church League of America, 1965. Original illustrated broadside, folio (14" x 6.5"), single sheet printed recto only. Text in three columns.
Folded once horizontally, moderate edge wear, some creasing, tiny hole affecting a letter in Shackelford's name, lightly foxed & soiled, otherwise Good or better.
Reprints an article originally published in the Chicago Tribune on October 17, 1965. The Tribune, of course, was completely in favor of the Vietnam War & the article, while intended to stir up outrage, helpfully provides several methods of obtaining that coveted 4F draft status: "Play Homosexual," "Be an Epileptic," Bed-Wetting," etc. Rufus E. Shackelford, perhaps the largest tomato farmer in the United States, was on the Board of Directors of the Church League of America & was candidate for vice president in 1976 as the running mate of Thomas J. Anderson, a John Bircher. The ticket received a grand total of 158,724 votes.

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.