The Sixties Catalogue

57 J u l y 2 0 2 0 Signed By Tim O’Brien 55. O’BRIEN, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston, 1990. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $400. Click for more info First trade edition of O’Brien’s acclaimed fifth book, high on a “short list of essential fiction about Vietnam” (New York Times), signed by him. “O’Brien cuts to the heart of writing about war” ( New York Times ). First-printing dust jacket misaligned as issued. Preceded only by the signed Franklin Mint edition. Trace of remainder mark to lower fore-edge. A fine signed copy. “You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”