. BOZEK, D.A. Artillery Medic in Vietnam. NY: Vantage (1971). Short, vanity press publication, published while the war was ongoing. A personal account by a medic in Vietnam: intermingled with the author's accounts of and reflections on the war are a number of his poems. While there is no explicit limitation for this title indicated, Vantage Press is one of the handful of "subsidy" or "vanity" press publishers that were determined, in a class-action case brought in the early 1980s, to have effectively cheated their authors by charging them for printing their books but never taking any formal steps to actually distribute them, instead pulping them after a designated period of time had passed. Thus, titles published by these presses tend to be extremely scarce--most of the copies that were distributed having been the ones the authors themselves gave away or sold.

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