First edition of the author's first book. A wonderful association copy, inscribed by Winston Groom to Carl Bernstein, Nora Ephron, and their son Jacob: "For Carl, Nora and Jacob / Good things and God's Grace for you all / Best wishes / Winston Groom / 8/24/78.
"Better Times Than These is a novel on the largest scale -- a total portrait of men caught up in war. The protagonist of this remarkable book is Bravo Company, Fourth Battalion, Seventh Cavalry -- the same regiment George Armstrong Custer took to the Little Big Horn a century ago -- now without horses, fighting as infantry. The time is 1966. The place is Vietnam." -- [Quoted from the dust wrapper's blurb]. Good .
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