Hiroshima (First Edition with Dust Jacket)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full grey cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, Jacket is soiled, worn and has a few closed tears. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper, dust jacket is not price-clipped. Overall a GOOD book in a FAIR brodart protected dust jacket. Hiroshima is the title of a magazine article written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey that appeared in The New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a. m., August 6, 1945. The article was soon made into a book. It described how the bombing affected the lives of six individuals: * Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto: a Methodist minister educated in the United States at Emory University was 3, 500 yards from the center of the explosion; * Hatsuyo Nakamura: a war widow and seamstress, the mother of three young children was 1350 yards from the center of the explosion; * Dr. Masakazu Fujii: a prosperous doctor and owner of a private hospital was 1550 yards from the center of the explosion; * Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (Makoto Takakura): a Jesuit priest stationed in the city was 1400 yards from the center of the explosion; * Dr. Terufumi Sasaki: a young doctor at the Red Cross hospital was 1650 yards from the center of the explosion; and * Toshiko Sasaki (Sister Dominique Sasaki): A clerk at the East Asia Tin Works (no relation to Terufumi Sasaki) was 1600 yards from the center of the explosion. . Full Cloth. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.