HIROSHIMA
by HERSEY, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 117 pages, grey mottled cloth, pages 89 - 117 have a vertical crease at the fore-edge
Inscribed "To Dick + Annette. / ... Fred J. Olivi Lt. Col. / Co-pilot - Bockscar - USAF (Ret.) / Nagasaki Mission / 9 Aug 1945". Laid in is a photocopy of Olivi's article, "My mission over Nagasaki", from WWII Times, Sept., 19 "There has been no change in mhy view on the subject. I believe that when we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war was shortened by months, thus saving thousands of American lives."
Inscribed "To Dick + Annette. / ... Fred J. Olivi Lt. Col. / Co-pilot - Bockscar - USAF (Ret.) / Nagasaki Mission / 9 Aug 1945". Laid in is a photocopy of Olivi's article, "My mission over Nagasaki", from WWII Times, Sept., 19 "There has been no change in mhy view on the subject. I believe that when we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war was shortened by months, thus saving thousands of American lives."
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
- Seller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0011219
- Title
- HIROSHIMA
- Author
- HERSEY, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- hiroshima, nagasaki, bocks car, bockscar, B-29,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...