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O’BRIEN, Tim (b. 1946). If I Die in a Combat Zone. Box Me Up And Ship Me Home. [New York:] Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1973]. 8vo. 199, [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s light green cloth backstrip over green boards, front board stamped in blind, spine stamped in black and green, publisher’s unclipped (“$5.95”) dust jacket (binding lightly rubbed and sunned at edges, minor sunning to endleaves; jacket very lightly rubbed and toned). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS MILITARY SERVICE IN VIETNAM, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE-PAGE. This critically acclaimed book is considered to be “the single greatest piece of work to come out of Vietnam” (The Washington Star).