HIROSHIMA
by JOHN HERSEY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used; Good
- Seller
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Haines City, Florida, United States
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About This Item
ALFRED A KNOPF, 1946. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Used; Good. The jacket shows slight fading to the spine panel, and rubbing , with some very light rubbing to the tips and flap folds, some soiling, wearing to top of spine and top edge of book boards foxing to endpapers 118 pp some yellowing to page adges Hersey"s classic document, detailing the effect of the first dropping of the atomic bomb on the lives of several individuals
Synopsis
Hiroshima by John Hersey tells the account of six survivors covering the time before, during and after the U.S. bombing of Japan in World War II. Hersey chronicles the horrors of the event in simple, graphic detail in what was originally published as a 31,000 word article in New Yorker magazine in 1946. Just a few months later, Alfred A. Knopf printed it in book form.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Music Videos 4 U (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NNBK10210
- Title
- HIROSHIMA
- Author
- JOHN HERSEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- ALFRED A KNOPF
- Date Published
- 1946
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Haines City, Florida
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....