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THE SHORT-TIMERS

THE SHORT-TIMERS by Hasford, Gustav

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
THE SHORT-TIMERS
Author
Hasford, Gustav
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780060117825
Condition
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Rare inscribed first edition of the ex-Marine's brief and brutal semi-autobiographical novel - basis for Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET. Hasford joined the Marine Corps in 1966, shortly after having "refused to graduate from high school" because he "didn't want to validate what they were doing." Assigned to a North Carolina base as a military journalist, he applied to go to Vietnam - with only ten months left of service - out of curiosity; while still there, he joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War and contributed a poem to the first anthology of writings by veterans of that war. During the several post-Marine years of writing THE SHORT-TIMERS, Hasford supported himself as a used bookstore clerk, editor of fetish magazines, and sometime roommate of Harlan Ellison, who had previously advised Hasford to give up and get out of the writing business (Ross). The manuscript endured several rounds of rejection due to subject matter most publishers then considered "box office poison" before its eventual acceptance by Harper. More good fortune followed with Kubrick's purchase of the film rights; Hasford struggled for and eventually won a co-writing credit for the FULL METAL JACKET screenplay, which closely replicates much of the novel's harrowing boot camp sequence. Especially rare signed (given Hasford's premature death in 1993), a exceptional copy of "the best work of fiction about the Vietnam War" (Newsweek). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with red boards. Black endpapers. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket by John Sposato. 154 pages. Inscribed by Hasford on the half-title page: "for my friend / Bob / from Gus / Gustav Hasford / Silverlake Sept. 18, 1982." Some very faint soil to top edge of textblack. Trace sunning to jacket spine. Else bright, clean, and sharp.
DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS

DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS by Sobiloff, Hy

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DINOSAURS AND VIOLINS
Author
Sobiloff, Hy
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1954. First edition, first prnt. Foreword by Conrad Aiken. Small smudge on foreedge; one and a half inch closed tear on rear panel of the acetete dustjacket. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo.
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A Moonlight Witch: A Fantasy. by ADAIR, Diana.

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Title
A Moonlight Witch: A Fantasy.
Author
ADAIR, Diana.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
London & NY: Regency Press, (1970).. First edition.. 59 pp. Very good only in glossy wrappers with a crease to front and rear covers. Poems with a foreword by Le Comte de la Villesbrunne (!).
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Tomboy Bride. by Backus, Harriet Fish.

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Title
Tomboy Bride.
Author
Backus, Harriet Fish.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing Co., [1969]. 14th printing. Octavo, softbound, 273 pp. Photos. Near-Fine.
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Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
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Deseret News, [1951]. Good. Guide to the Study of Volume Seven of the Documentary History of the Church. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, [1951]. 36pp. 12mo. Yellow stapled wraps. Book condition: Good with lightly faded and soiled covers and former owner's name on head of front wrap.

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