The Short-Timers. A Novel

by Gustav Hasford

£675 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Modern Literature FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp. vi ; 154. Publisher's hardcover cloth, black endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper. A fine copy in a near fine price clipped wrapper, with a couple of short tears to top edge. A semi-autobiographical novel from a Vietnam War veteran, who served as war correspondent for the U.S. Marine Corps. Basis for the acclaimed Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket 1987 . The

• Binding: Hardcover

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