NMLP P-039302 · 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

Franklin Library issue (Franklin Center, 1990): full brown leather, gilt-stamped soldier device to spine and covers, hubbed spine, all edges gilt, satin ribbon marker, colour frontispiece; signed by O'Brien, and — the substantive point — it contains an introduction by O'Brien that is not present in the trade edition

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039302 for "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039302, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).