HERR, Michael.
Dispatches.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
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“It took almost as long to sign this book as it did to write it”: First Edition of Dispatches; Inscribed by Michael Herr
Early printing of “the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “12 March 2000 Cazenovia Dear Shirley, It took almost as long to sign this book as it did to write it, but "never mind". All the best, with warm regards, and gratitude for your patience Michael Herr.” Herr, who was raised in nearby Syracuse, kept a home in Cazenovia, New York, at the time of this inscription. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Praised by John le Carré as “the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time,” Herr’s vision of combat stands at the core of two seminal Vietnam films: Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), with its narration by Herr, and Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), whose screenplay earned Herr an Oscar nomination. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential nonfiction books since 1923 and listed on The Guardian’s list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books in 2011.
