Hiroshima
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-117, [3] pp. Green cloth with lettering and a decoration in blind on the front board, gold lettering and a gold decoration on the spine; red topstain. Price of $1.75 net on the front flap of the jacket. The jacket's rear panel with the photographs of the six individuals interviewed. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Hersey's narrative captures the perspectives of six individuals who survived the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. First published in the New Yorker in August of 1946, this is the first trade edition of Hersey's chilling history of atomic warfare. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000017211
A name from 1947 on the free front endpaper; jacket toned and rubbed on its spine panel.
Price: $350.00