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HERSEY, John Richard (1914-93). Hiroshima. Reprinted from The New Yorker. New York: The New Yorker, 1946.
8o. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (minor splitting to backstrip).
[With]:
HERSEY, John Richard. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
8o. Original green cloth (some fading); dust jacket.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, reprinted from The New Yorker, together with the FIRST TRADE EDITION of Hersey's landmark report on the immediate after-effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the lives of six individuals who lived through it. Harold Ross and William Shawn devoted the entire August 31, 1945 issue of The New Yorker to Hiroshima, the first time that the magazine had been turned over to a single piece. The offprint was set from the standing type used by the magazine, and distributed by The New Yorker as part of an advertising campaign. Knopf published their edition in the early autumn of 1946, and THIS COPY HAS BEEN SIGNED BY FIVE OF THE SIX SURVIVORS WHOSE ACTIVITIES DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BOMING HERSEY DESCRIBES IN THIS WORK: Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Hatsuyo Nakamura, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Revd. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. The five have signed the book--some in English, some in Japanese--twice: one on the first blank and then each again alongside his or her photograph on the back panel of the dust jacket. (2)
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[With]:
HERSEY, John Richard. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
8
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, reprinted from The New Yorker, together with the FIRST TRADE EDITION of Hersey's landmark report on the immediate after-effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the lives of six individuals who lived through it. Harold Ross and William Shawn devoted the entire August 31, 1945 issue of The New Yorker to Hiroshima, the first time that the magazine had been turned over to a single piece. The offprint was set from the standing type used by the magazine, and distributed by The New Yorker as part of an advertising campaign. Knopf published their edition in the early autumn of 1946, and THIS COPY HAS BEEN SIGNED BY FIVE OF THE SIX SURVIVORS WHOSE ACTIVITIES DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BOMING HERSEY DESCRIBES IN THIS WORK: Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Hatsuyo Nakamura, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Revd. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. The five have signed the book--some in English, some in Japanese--twice: one on the first blank and then each again alongside his or her photograph on the back panel of the dust jacket. (2)