NMLP P-039304 · Book-club / reprint tell · 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

No trade book-club variant is documented for this title in the sources consulted. The Franklin Library leatherbound is a separate signed issue, not a book-club reprint, and should not be described as one. Reprint tell for the trade edition: a number line no longer ending in 1. Jacket tell: a centred spine title marks the second-issue jacket, which is frequently married to first-printing sheets.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039304 for "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039304, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).