Isbn: 9780224016261 - Going After Cacciato (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is bound in blue boards with bright silver letters on the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First published in Great Britain in 1978". The dust jacket has sticker removal marks on the front cover, otherwise clean & bright. It has the US price clipped off but the British price put on top of the clip.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Octavo. 338pp. Near fine in like jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Bright and clean throughout with no markings or signs of precious ownership. Very minor wear to head and foot of spine. Smart jacket featuring the art of M.S. Chiang. Jacket price-clipped by publisher with a sticker for the UK price affixed. Jacket now protected with an archival grade Brodart wrap. A very tight and attractive copy. …

First British edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 338 pp. Book very near fine (slight dust soiling, top edge of book block; minute bump, top edge of rear board). Dustcover very good plus (mild rubbing and wear; some inconspicuous wrinkling, lower aspect of front panel; price-clipped, with printed Cape price sticker added). (3214052).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This Is A Near Fine Copy Of The 1978 First U.K. Edition By Jonathan Cape. The Beautiful Dust Jacket (Wrap Around Art By M. S. Chiang) Is Near Fine With A Half Inch Closed Tear At Junction Of Back Panel And Flap. Like All Of These Copies, The Price Has Been Clipped And Replaced With £7.50 Sticker. This American Novel Which Employed The Magical Realism Used By Latin American Writers At That Time Won For Tim O'brien The 1979 National Book Award. "When I Stumbled Across A Mass-Market Copy Of Going After Cacciato, I Almost Didn¿T Read It; A Weak Yellowish Cover Of A Soldier In A Jungle Made It Look Like A Pulpy War-Action Novel, But A Skim Of The First Page Immediately Sucked Me In. . . . Here Was This Novel Where I Kept Having To Pause And Say To Myself Is This True? Can Things Really Work This Way?" Marie Myung-Ok Lee.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first edition. 352 pages. text edge lightly foxedTo call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a n ovel about whales.So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now class ic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciat o captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this str angest of wars.In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the st ory of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixoti c journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorabl e evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going Af ter Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's ab out the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.…

dj. First Edition. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 338 pages. O'Brien's third book, a National Book Award winning novel. A fine copy in a fine price clipped dust jacket that has the usual price increase sticker on the front flap. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jonathan Cape, 1978; first UK edition, bearing appropriate "First published." statement to copyright page; 338pp. Binding is tight, sturdy and square; bottom corners of boards and both ends of spine bumped, else very good; titling remains bright and bold. Price-clipped front flap of dust jacket bears previous price sticker; spine a bit sunned. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 338 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "£4.95". Boards in blue cloth. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403509. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. hardcover, first British edition, 1978, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "To Jim, whose poems still inspire and move me, Tim O'Brien" presented to Jim Simmerman a published writer and poet, near fine condition in a fine dust jacket, corner clipped bottom front flap and with publisher's sticker price of L7.50(pounds), small stain bottom foredge, bright wrap around jacket, jacket protected with Brodart mylar cover, Viet Nam War novel. Size: Octavo. Inscribed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG. First UK edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. Price clipped jacket. 338 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) in a very rare near fine first state unclipped dustjacket. Colour of jacket at spine just a shade lighter than the rest and Light rubbing to the boards otherwise fine unread with no marks, signatures or inscriptions. pp. 171-72 tipped in cancel. The jacket's of most of the first printing of the UK edition were repriced or clipped and often both to find a original priced copy of £4.95 is very uncommon.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First UK Edition. Octavo22.2cm); illustrated dust jacket with £4.95 net price intact; blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; [x],338pp. Jacket shelfworn with rubbing at spine head and bottom back edge; light to moderate foxing to flaps and verso. Boards square with nudging at spine ends. Foxing and dust-soiling to top edge of texblock, with light foxing to free endpapers. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. O'Brien's second published novel and winner of the 1978 National Book Award.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) in a very rare near fine first state unclipped dustjacket. Colour of jacket at spine just a shade lighter than the rest, a couple of very light spots to the edge of the text block. pp. 171-72 tipped in cancel attached at stub. The jacket's of most of the first printing of the UK edition were repriced or clipped and often both to find a original priced copy of £4.95 is very uncommon.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, there is an inscription by O'brien and signed at the title page. 338 pages, first edition stated. the dust jacket is clipped. the dust jacket is slightly creased at the outer edges with some small tears. the rear endpaper has a small hole. first UK edition of the authors third book.We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Jacket Condition: 'Near Fine' Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Jonathan Cape, 1978; first UK edition, bearing appropriate 'First published' statement to copyright page; 338pp. Binding is tight, sturdy and square; titling remains bright and bold. Price-clipped front flap of dust jacket bears previous price sticker. Interior is free of previous owner markings. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good, clipped. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by author to previous owner. First edition. DJ price-clipped, else in excellent condition with only trace amount of edgewear. Boards clean and square, spine lettering bright. Pages clean. Binding tight.

First British edition. SIGNED by O'Brien on the title page. Hardcover with dustjacket. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 338 pp. Small, slight indentation, preliminary pages, else fine. Dustcover near fine (small bump with beginning lifting of clear laminate, 3/4 x 3 1/16 inch in greatest dimensions, lower spine edge; price-clipped, with addition of printed J Cape price sticker). ISBN 0224016261 (3214045).…

Hardcover. Condition: N-Fine. N-Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean carefully read copy, This copy has some of the usual light browning ti the text block, one light corner bump, one page in the the center of the block which seems to be slightly out of line with the rest. The jacket has a publisher's price clip and a publisher's price tag added. A very nice copy of the First UK Edition. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. National Book Award Winner of 1979. Signed on the title page by the author. Signing event provenance laid in. The dust jacket is price clipped; otherwise fine. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Fine in Archival Plastic Cover. First British Edition. A handsome First British Edition of Tim O'Brien's award-winning book, signed by the author on the title page. In dark blue-green cloth the book is in fine condition with a bright and clean interior but for bumping at the spine ends and pp. 171-172 repaired at the inside edge. The dustjacket is bright and clean with a sticker "750 net/In UK Only" on the front flap which is price-clipped, presumably by the publisher. Protected by an archival plastic cover. Winner of the National Book Award. By the author of "Northern Lights" and "The Things They Carried." Overall a nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.K. Edition/First Printing. First Edition/First Printing. SIGNED by the Author on the Title Page. Winner of the National Book Award in 1979 - it was the unanimous choice of the judges: "His landscapes have the breadh and scope of Tolstoy's, and the essential American wonder and innocence of his vision derserves to stand beside that of Stephen Crane." No other novelist has captured the experience of the Vietnam War in a narrative as compelling or as boldly strange as in this work. In Publisher's Price-Clipped jacket with J. Cape £7.50 net price sticker affixed. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper that was price-clipped and with a sticker with the publisher's new price.