Description
A first edition of Hiroshima by John Hersey.
Small octavo, [8], 118pp, [2]. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt title on spine, embossed title on cover. Stated “First Edition” on the copyright page. Top edge dyed red. Faint discoloration of green cloth boards. Offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket, internally clean. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, with $1.75 net retail price on front flap, sunning to the spine, light soiling to white trim, bright illustrations, a very good example.
From the cover: “The story of six human beings who survived the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima – this is the complete text of the brilliant report to which “The New Yorker” devoted its entire issue of August 31, 1946.”
The book was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It was first published in The New Yorker, then published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1946. It has sold over 3 million copies to date.
