An Afghanistan Picture Show; Or, How I Saved The World

New York: Farra, Straus Giroux, 1992. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's green linen spine, titled in gilt, over cream speckled paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 268pp. Slight disoloration to the cloth around the extremities, light bumping to spine ends; internally clean, signed by Vollmann to the half-title; in a clean, bright and attractive pictorial dustjacket. A near fine signed copy.

A lightly fictionalized account of Vollmann's 1982 journalistic mission to Afghanistan to cover the Soviet invasion, and chronicle the moment that the Cold War heated up to become daily viewing.