Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry and Basil T. Paquet (editors)

WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS; War Poems by Vietnam Veterans

Brooklyn: 1st Casualty Press, 1972. Later printing. Paperback. Possible later issue (no statement of printing) in green wrappers with red bamboo design (two different covers noted), title in black; priced at $1.95. With poems by Michael Casey (Yale Younger Poet) and Gustave Hasford author of The Short -Timers, basis for Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. A poem by Sue Halpern (the writer?), a student from Norwalk, CT, ends the collection. Quickly picked up by McGraw Hill where it was published in hardcover. Near Fine in Wraps. Near fine. Item #2703

Price: $50.00