Fields of Fire: A Novel.
“My war is not as simple as yours was, Father": First Edition of James Webb's Fields of Fire; Warmly Inscribed by Him
Fields of Fire: A Novel.
WEBB, James.
$975.00
Item Number: 118899
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978.
First edition of “the finest of the Vietnam novels” (Tom Wolfe). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Captain Roger C. Patton- with thanks for your own Marine Corps service. Semper F- Jim Webb January 1979.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Hal Siegel.
"A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead" (The Oregonian). “Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth" (The Houston Post).
