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First printing. 323pp. Black cloth boards with silver lettering. 8vo-over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4". Some yellowing. DJ worn with chips and tears on cover extremities. Fading and tanning to spine. Rear has a b&w photo of Halsbertam as a correspondent for the New York Times. Halberstam's personal account of his fifteen months in South Vietnam as a New York Times foreign correspondent. He describes how the U.S. first became involved and why. Halberstam is prolific in his indictment of the conduct and leadership of the war in the field, of the delusions of the American military and diplomatic leaders there, and of the falsified and misleading statistics foisted on U.S. correspondents and newspaper readers. He became a subject of controversy for resisting enormous pressure from both Washington and the Vietnamese government to report the war optimistically. Finally, the State Department publicly admitted that it was in error and that Halberstam was correct in his accounts. Halberstam won… Read More

West Glover, Vermont: Something Else Press. 1973. First edition. 8vo. 235pp. Original printed wrappers. 235pp. Illustrations. A Fluxus and avant garde anthology compiling a range of material: poetry, essays, collages, event documentation, photographs, drawings and more. It was designated as a yearbook to be a record of things that the press had produced; The publishers called it "a great, big diary, spontaneous and full of zest." Includes over forty-one contributors including Charles Bukowski, Paul-Armand Gette, John Giorno, Dick Higgins, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Mieko Shiomi, Wolf Vostell and an interview between Dan Georgakas and William Burroughs.

New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002. 52 pp. 8 1/2 x 10." 27 ills. (17 col. ). Spiral bound covers, with a few marks, else very good. Exhibition catalogue. This exhibition provided the opportunity to glimpse some of these rarely-seen treasures of twentieth century collage, an art form invented by Braque and Picasso in 1912 that transformed perceptions about two dimensional representation and influenced nearly every subsequent artistic movement of the century.