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ALLEN, THOMAS B Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
Atlanta, Turner Publishing Inc. 1995, First Edition (stated). (ISBN: 1 57036 174 6) Pictorial Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mild rubbing to surface of cover; spine not creased; faint crease to back corner. Very clean, sound copy. 288 pages including a list of the names of Americans who died in the Vietnam War - the 58,196 names on the Memorial when the book was published arranged much as they are on the 140 panels. A compendium of full colour photographs of objects left at the Memorial such as mementoes, photographs, documents, artefacts, toys, items of equipment, clothing, footwear, jewellery, letters, postcards - "tangible bonds between those who fell in Vietnam and those who remembered, a mystic communion with the dead" - preserved as a museum collection. A moving tribute. [Shipping at cost]. Near Fine/No Jacket (as published).
Offered for US$ 35.00 by: Well Read Books (formerly Literacy Nanaimo) - Book number: 002272
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