Dispatches

New York: Knopf, (1977). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 260 pp. Original quarter brown cloth over tan paper-covered boards, stamped in copper, in original unclipped ($8.95) dust-jacket. Some mild smudging, wrinkling, handling and edge wear to jacket. Some wear to spine ends and corners. Small sticker remnant to rear panel. Stain to spine. Book shows mild dustiness, toning to page edges, a few old droplets to top text block, spine ends curled and edges tips lightly touched.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good+

“Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers. Herr worked on the narration for the movie Apocalypse Now and co-wrote the screenplay for the movie Full Metal Jacket and several scenes and pieces of dialogue used in the book were later also used in those movies”.