Tour Of Duty; John Kerry And The Vietnam War

by Brinkley, Douglas [Kerry, John]

New York: William Morrow, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition of Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley, signed by former Secretary of State, John Kerry.. Octavo, xiii, 546pp. White hardcover, brown spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with full number line. Likely never read. In publisher's near fine dust jacket, retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear. Signed by John Kerry on the half title page. John... Read More

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A Call to Participate in Counter Inaugural Activities Jan. 18-19-20 [1969]

Washington, D.C., 1969. Printed on both sides. Folio. Old Folds. Printed on both sides. Folio.

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Friendly Fire

by (BRYAN, C.D.B.). KANIN, Fay

(n.p.): (Marble Arch). (1979). Dialogue continuity script for Kanin's television screenplay based on C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 nonfiction book. Friendly Fire chronicles the radicalization of a patriotic Midwestern family after their son is killed by "friendly" (i.e., U.S.) fire, and they try to get the details from a balky government, seemingly more interested in protecting those responsible than in honoring the dead. An important book, and film, for depicting the tide of mainstream political opinion in the U.S. turning against the... Read More

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Rags of Time: A Season in Prison

by COOK, Jack

Boston: Beacon Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 192pp. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Personal account of an anarchist Vietnam war draft resister who was sent to jail. Very scarce in the first edition.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Samisdat Vol IV, No. 1: A Few Good Men

by [VIETNAM WAR] SUDDICK, Tom

Berkeley CA: Samisdat Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's pale green wraps, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board, with a reproduction of the author's USMC telegram notifying his parents of him taking a shrapnel wound to the stomach to the rear wrap. A touch of fading here and there, with soome very light shelfwear, but a very good, strong copy. 116pp. Internally clean. Signed by the author to the title page. One peculiarity is... Read More

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Knights Over the Delta: An Oral History of the 114th Aviation Company in Vietnam, 1963-72.

by STIBBENS, Steve (editor).

n.p.:: Aviation Company Association,. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0974246506 . Color and black and white photographs throughout. Stated first edition. Slightly bumped corners, else fine in a fine dust jacket. ; 408 pages .

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Philip Vampatella: Fighter Pilot. The complete life story of a college dropout who became one of the first aircraft carrier pilots to fly over Vietnam

by SULLIVAN, George

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 128pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A fine copy in bright, very good dust jacket with light rubbing at the tips of spine, few small, closed edge tears, faint pencil mark on front flap, else quite fresh and bright. Issued as a volume in the Champion Book series of biographies for young readers. A very scarce Vietnam War-related book in this condition.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

The cosmology of finding your spot

by Dorn, Ed

[Lawrence, Kansas?]: Cottonwood, 1969. First edition, broadside (approx. 432 x 279 mm.); long poem printed in wavy formation; previous fold, a few soil spots, else very good. "Presented April 10, 1969 at the United Campus Christian Fellowship benefit reading for the draft registers league.

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Subscription Book for I.W.W. Publications

by [Rosemont, Franklin] [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW]

[Chicago]: [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW], 1963. Ephemera. SIGNED. Unpaginated. [7.5cm x 17.5cm]. Printed green wraps; side staple bound. Wraps mildly soiled. Five completed duplicate forms; carbon copy pages removed. Subscription book belonging to a young Franklin Rosemont. Rosemont was an anarchist, a noted labor scholar, an author, co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group and, along with his wife Penelope, steward of the world's oldest socialist publisher, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co. As... Read More

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Anti-Vietnam War Poster Six Million Victims -- the Human Cost of the Indochina War Under President Nixon, 1970s

by Anti-Vietnam War Poster

1970. [Anti Vietnam War] [Poster] Six Million Victims -- the Human Cost of the Indochina War Under President Nixon. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1970s. Measures 17" x 23". Poster on newsprint with black and white photo of President Nixon and a Vietnamese woman crying with her child. Black and red text. The AFSC is a religious organization founded in 1917 working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. The text reads: "Six... Read More

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Camp Concentration

by Disch, Thomas M.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. From the personal collection of Thomas Disch. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), faintly rubbed at the surface, a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel. Black cloth with orange ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Disch's classic science fiction novel of a war-time mind-altering experiment conducted on prisoners as told from... Read More

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The Militant" Covering Anti-Vietnam War Undercurrent in US Army 1969

by Anti War; The Militant

1969. [Anti-War Counterculture] The Militant. Vol. 33 No. 18. New York, 2 May 1969. Newspaper Published by the Socialists' Party of America. 12 pages, 17" x 11." Contains articles, announcements, photos, illustrations, and political cartoons. Its slogan, "Published in the interests of the Working People," is printed on the masthead. The cover article is about the Fort Jackson 8, in which eight soldiers were arrested after an anti-Vietnam War meeting. Photograph depicts the soldiers descending down the steps of... Read More

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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery or assassination [...] Stop militarism in our schools!

by [VIETNAM] AVERILL, Peg (illustration); DEBS, Eugene V. (text)

New York: War Resisters League, [n.d. but early 1970s]. Original lithographed poster, with text and illustration offset printed in three colors on white stock, measuring 43cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Light wear to extremities, tiny diagonal crease to lower right corner, with some faint foxing at upper margin and on verso; Near Fine. One of seven posters created by Averill (1949-1993) for the War Resisters League. The central image features a childlike figure decked out in military garb... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

David Fine Freedom Committee [poster with poem]

Madison, WI: David Fine Freedom Committee, [197-]. Poster. 17x22.5 inch poster, neatly creased from having been folded into quarters. Formerly from the collection of J. Wesley Miller, with his penned signature on the blank verso. This example has a purplish "sun" motif in the sky that is absent from the version at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The printing is generally a bit clumsy; it may have been some sort of trial variant. David Fine was one of the bombers... Read More

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Open City Vol. 2 No. 1 May 5-11; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance

by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John

Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Good. Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained and with multiple tears at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. The first issue of the Los Angeles iteration of the tabloid Bryan previously printed in San Francisco under the title Open City Press. This issue features contributions from Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, William and Barbara Margolis, as well as Charles Bukowski's review of A.E. Hotchner's biography of Ernest Hemingway.... Read More

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Earth Times Vol. 1 Nos. 1-4 (Complete Run)

by Mills, Stephanie [Editor]

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1970. A complete run of a short-lived environmentalist publication from 1970. Articles on pollution, ecology, Native American radicalism, wolves, the Vietnam war, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, living in an ashram, and more. Folded tabloid format. Good+ condition with foxing, toning, and soiling. Subscription card or ad cut out of issues 1 and 2. Uncommon.

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

FACING REALITY - FROM WORLD FEDERALISM TO THE CIA [Signed]

by Meyer, Cord

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 433 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: '15.95.' Dust jacket with some general shelfwear throughout and creasing to spine. Foxing to text block edges. Inscribed by Meyer to the half-title page. With Thomas Hughes ownership ink to the front free endpaper. With profuse underlining and marginalia throughout in black... Read More

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The New Soldier

by KERRY, John and Vietnam Veteran Against the War

New York: Collier Books, 1971. Softcover. Fine. First paperback edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover issue. Quarto. Top corner a little rubbed, else about fine. Advance Review Copy with letter from the editor sending this Advance copy to American novelist Mary McCarthy.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

[Political Poster with poem]: David Fine Freedom Committee

by (FINE, David)

Madison, Wisconsin: David Fine Freedom Committee, 1976. Unbound. Fine. Political poster. Measuring 17" x 22". Former owner signature on unprinted verso. Horizontal fold and very light vertical crease (an old fold) else fine. Prints an unattributed political poem (beginning "They call it terror / if you are few / and have no B-52's...") and a portrait of Fine dated April 1970. Four months after the picture was taken, an 18-year-old David Fine, an antiwar protester and student at... Read More

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Pair of Anti-Vietnam War Pamphlets "Viet Nam - LOVE IT or LEAVE IT!" and "Peace or Four More Years of War?

by Anti Vietnam

1969. Archive of Two Anti-Vietnam War Pamphlets Critiquing Nixon-Era Policy, 1969-1972. Birmingham, AL and Cambridge, MA / Los Angeles, CA: Birmingham Moratorium Committee and Indochina Peace Campaign. Two pamphlets totaling 8 pages. A stark and emotionally charged pair of pamphlets confronting the human and economic cost of the Vietnam War, particularly under the administration of Richard Nixon and his South Vietnamese ally, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Both documents highlight the structural violence wrought by U.S. imperialism through quotes, infographics, and... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

[Poster]: The Yale School of Drama Presents The Open Theatre Production of Megan Terry's Viet Rock, 1966

by (TERRY, Megan, Joel Katz)

[New Haven, Connecticut]: Yale School of Drama, 1966. Unbound. Very Good. Poster (29" x 38 ½"). Designed by Joel Katz for Megan Terry's rock musical *Viet Rock* at the Yale Repertory Theatre on October 11-23, 1966 with music composed by Marianne de Pury. Appears to be a facsimile of the original poster on thinner material, with Katz's copyright information canceled. Rolled, a couple small chips and light creases with a 1½ inch tear at the edge, rippling, sunning... Read More

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[Thirteen different leaflets from the US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Viet Nam]

New York: U.S. Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Viet Nam, 1966. Handbill. Thirteen different mimeographed items, mostly 8.5x11 inches, generally a single sheet, but includes a 6-page price list of Vietnamese literature and an 8-page packet reprinting Nguyen Huu Tho's "Structure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam." Other leaflets list needed medical supplies or other ways the reader can donate to support the guerrillas, popularly known in the US as the Viet Cong.... Read More

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Anti-Vietnam War "Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week" List of Actions -1969

by Anti-Vietnam War

1969. [Counterculture, Radical Movement, Anti-Vietnam War] Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week List of Actions (August 1969, leaflet) Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee. "Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week - List of Actions." New York: Measyures 11" x 8.5". Detailed, typed event schedule for August 2-9, including pickets at the UN, the Times Square "Festival of Life," and a Nagasaki Day rally featuring speakers like James Johnson (Pt. Hood 3) and Sharon Williams (Black Panther Communications Secretary). Notably includes events organized by and spotlighting Puerto Rican, Japanese,... Read More

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Typed Letter Signed

by REID, Ogden R. (1925-2019)

Washington, 1973. unbound. Fantastic Vietnam War T.L.S. 4to. 1 page, Congress of the United States, House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.C., January 16th 1973, to Dr. Arthur Luce Klein, anticipating the historic Cease-Fire Agreement that will effectively end the War in Vietnam, ten days before the official announcement, in part: "...I very much appreciate your taking the time to express your concern over the policy which this nation has followed over the last month in Vietnam,... Read More

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Pair of Mimeographed Documents Contrasting Johnson's 1964 and Nixon's 1969 Vietnam War Policies with Viet Cong Peace Terms

by Anti Vietnam War

1964. [Counterculture] [Vietnam War] This pair of mimeographed documents, issued in 1964 and 1969 respectively, capture the shifting rhetorical and political frameworks of U.S. justification and policy aims in Vietnam, offering rare comparative insight into both the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations' public positions. [1] Some Questions on Vietnam. Washington: Friends Committee on National Legislation, June 3, 1964. [2] Mr. Nixon's Points. [N.p], October 14, 1969. Two double-sided mimeographed typescripts measuring 8.5" x 11" each. Together, they... Read More

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