Middle Fire by Blacker Irwin (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Irwin R Blacker The Middle of the Fire 1st Edition HCDJ 1971 published by Scribners .SIGNED / INSCRIBED some jacket wear, very good. Ahuge novel which takes on the battles of Israel from A to Zvi who is Mr. Blacker's supra-virile hero. The narrative, which splashes through a sump of introductory participles ("Puzzled, he. . ." appears with eye-crossing frequency), concerns the fortunes of Zvi and a group of Valiant people seen at the beginning defending the Old City in 1948. This is the story of Zvi's career as a professional soldier. He leads a group of Yemenites to Israel and fights in the guerrilla wars, the Suez conflict and finally the Six Day War. And there are views of Zvi with his women -- his estranged wife whom he loved; the Yemenite who gave him his adopted son Aaron; a bitter concentration camp victim who shot him in an hysterical reaction; other sometime companions and an Arab beauty, Bedia, who shows up everywhere and any time like a dying nerve. In spite of losses of lovers, friends and Aaron, Zvi at the close finds comfort in the imperishable "ancient hope" of Israel. A convincing sense of time and place, BBDJ. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover in jacket. Clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear, some small tears to jacket edges.

First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover novel about Israel's fight for Jerusalem, vg in vg jacket, in fresh mylar cover; tiny cracks to jacket edges, owner name/date on chapter one title page else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing with "A" on copyright page.

Condition: Good. INSCRIBED! New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. 1st edition. Sm 4to hardcover. 666pp. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has multiple .5 in tears along edges and a vertical fold on the rear dust jacket flap. Slightly dampstained on top page edges and on lower spine of book and dust jacket. Spine slanted. (Israel, Historical Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.