NMLP P-039299 · 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

First trade edition (Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, Boston, 1990): ISBN 0-395-51598-X; 8vo, [14], 273, [1] pp; first printing carries the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page — any line missing the 1 is a later printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039299 for "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039299, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).