NMLP P-039300 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien · Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston (first trade edition); Franklin Library, Franklin Center (signed edition, reported to precede) · 1990

The jacket has two states and the first-issue jacket is the point: the spine title is printed slightly off-centre / off-register, '0390' appears at the foot of the front jacket flap, and there is no jacket-design credit on the flap; the second-issue jacket has the spine printing correctly centred

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039300 for "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039300, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).