VIETNAM INC.

First edition, first printing, softcover issue. Inscribed by Philip Jones Griffiths. Publisher's original gloss laminated card covers. Illustrated with photographs in black and white throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm with some rubbing and light creasing at the extremities. The contents, with faint spotting to the title page are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

Inscribed on the title page "John Tully / with many thanks / Philip Jones Griffiths". The recipient was an Olympus technicianwho serviced and repaired Jones Griffiths' camera equipment. Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008) is best remembered as one of the most influential photographers of the Vietnam conflict. He photographed the Vietnam War beginning in 1966, as a member of the Magnum Photo Agency. He subsequently published three books with powerful and compelling anti-war themes: Vietnam, Inc. in 1971; Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam (2004); and Vietnam at Peace (2005). Vietnam, Inc. had a major influence on American perceptions of the war, and became a classic of photojournalism. Time Magazine called it "the best work of photo-reportage of war ever published". Henri Cartier-Bresson said of the photographer "Not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths". (Parr & Badger: The Photobook, volume II).