John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, NY, 1946.

Price: US$5.25 + shipping

Description: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1946. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board edges. No DJ. Green paper over boards and spine with light green lettering on the spine and front board. Deckled fore edge. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 117 pp 12mo. This is the story of six human beings who lives through the greatest single man-made disaster in history with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Japan in August 1945. The author follows the course of their lives, hour by hour, day by day, building up with sure, quiet artistry the best reporting to come out of this war. A clean very presentable copy.

Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$5.70 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good hardcover copy with no dustjacket, 118 pp. *There are some red crayon (?) markings on title page

Seller: Olana Gallery, Brewster, NY, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$6.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a book club edition. There is some light damage to the DJ with paper loss at the spine ends.

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1946.

Price: US$7.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover - Good condition. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES.

Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$7.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. Clean and complete with general wear to corners and surfaces. Gray boards with dark red lettering to cover, spine.

Seller: Soaring Hawk Vintage, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1946.

Price: US$8.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

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Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (Book Club--unstated) Smaller, thin book, green cloth with green title and design at top front. bookplate inside front cover, 118 lightly browned pages. DJ brown on spine and borders of front and back, six small b/w photos of victims on back. DJ has wear and tear at most edges. Fair DJ/Very Good book.

Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.

John Hersey. HIROSHIMA. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No dust jacket, text has edgewear, bottom edge of front end page and front pastedown have small nick, pages are tanned, otherwise without flaw. 5 X 8" 118 pages. The story of six human beings who survived the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima - this is the complete text of the report to which 'The New Yorker' devoted its entire issue of August 31,1946.

Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$10.74 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description:

Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. HIROSHIMA. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1946.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: A "Borzoi" HB, green cloth boards, deckled fore-edge, pp117. Major rubbing, chipping, diverse stains, sunning to covers, rounding to corners, an indentation to top front fore edge, inside is better, with tanning / foxingt to page edges & endpapers, else square and tight. Retains a musty aroma from poor storage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1946.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Green cloth boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. HIROSHIMA. Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1946.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Description:

Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: At Words Matter Booksellers we provide at least 4 photos of all our items in lieu of detailed, but ultimately subjective, text descriptions. These include front, side and back photos and the copyright page. We will also provide high level text information for the standard, measurable book 'dimensions' as well as any exceptions or specific items that cannot be referenced in a photo. If you have questions about any of our listings, we will be happy to answer them or provide additional information and photos. Note also that our inventory is online only. Titles are not available in a public setting and were obtained from 3 private collections. Since receipt of all items in the 2012 to 2022 timeframe, titles were only handled 1 time for digital photographs and a condition review by this bookseller. They have been stored in a temperature controlled home based library and will only be handled by the bookseller to mail to the buyer (or to provide additional information or photos for the buyer).

Seller: Words Matter Booksellers, Oshkosh, WI, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred. A Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$15.19 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Grayish boards with tweed like design. Roughened end papers. Top corners are rubbed and bumped. Two small stains on front board. Otherwise square and tight. Tiny amount of foxing on fep. Reprint

Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima / John Hersey. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$17.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$17.50 + shipping

Description: 118, small piece missing in margin of 2nd free front endpaper, DJ worn: small tears, several small pieces missing

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

John Hersey. HIROSHIMA. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1946.

Price: US$19.31 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This near fine copy is bound in Penguin World Affairs grey uniform card covers as issued. The text block is tight white, bright and square, there is some typival age toning to the page edges but this does not encroach upon the page. There is a small neat signature to the top of the front cover. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. postal rate will be reduced on this slim volume. Hiroshima is a 1946 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting. The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, 1946, to a single article. Less than two months later, the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf. Never out of print, it has sold more than three million copies. "Its story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust," Ref E 2

Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom

John Hersey. Hiroshima / John Hersey. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Lightly worn.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$22.50 + shipping

Description: 118, some discoloration & soiling inside boards, DJ worn & scuffed: small tears, small piece missing at top of spine

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$22.50 + shipping

Description: 118, boards scuffed, some wear to edges of spine.

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf 1946, 1946.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: first edition ed. hardback about very good condition in a clipped dust jacket with moderate wear and spine sunning

Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. A Borzoi Book / Alfred A Knopf., New York., 1946.

Price: US$27.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Gray-weave patterned textured cloth over boards. Maroon titles, small cover graphic. [7], 120 p. 20 cm. This history first appeared in the magazine, The New Yorker. For author John Hersey, this volume was his 4th, notably following "A Bell for Adano" in 1944, an enduring wartime fiction. "Hiroshima" is factual, opening with the chapter, "A Noiseless Flash", in which the reader is reminded, "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima". Hersey ascribed what 6 survivors were doing at that moment, and follows their narratives throughout this history. Included is a news clipping review, N.Y. Times, for a reprint, 4/Aug/85, by author John Toland, with archival news photos. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Pre-printed Ex Libris Bookplate, signature, blind-stamped crimped circle. Same date, copyright and title pages. No print line.

Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.

HERSEY JOHN. HIROSHIMA. ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1946.

Price: US$28.56 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: R320100473: 1946. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 117 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good copy with clean pages. Edges bumped. Previous ownership sticker on front free end paper. Sm8vo. Published in New York, 1946. 118 pages.

Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES ; sm8vo - 118 pages; Acceptable hardcover no dustjacket; few stains; tanned pages; deckled; tips and edges bumped; slight fraying to spine head and heal; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1946 on title page.

Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima (First Edition with Dust Jacket). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$49.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 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. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Stated First Edition. No jacket. No marks of any kind. No owner name. Tight binding.

Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. HIROSHIMA. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$106.75 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.48

Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1946.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 118 pp, 1946 date on title page and copyright page, no evidence of a later printing. The DJ is tattered and laid in the book. The DJ is simple typeset, "Hiroshima/by John Hersey/The story of six human beings who survived the expolsion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima--this is the ocmplete text of the brilliant reprot to which "The New Yorker" devoted its entire issue of August 31, 1946." The book is green cloth with marroon colored pint on the cover and spine, and a wheel-like decoraiton. The front lower corner is bumped, others sharp, the ends of the spine are a bit worn, the ffep has a book plate attached, and the front pastedown has a small portion of the upper right corner detached (half the size of a dime). This book is likely to require extra postage for overseas shipping which can be very high, so before ordering , contact me so that the postage rate can be agreed upon. ID#box 6.

Seller: Outta Shelves, Centuria, WI, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Sm 8vo, 120pg. Green front and rear boards with 'Heroshima' and flower symbol in purple lettering on front baord. Purple lettering on spine. Borzoi Books logo on rear board. DJ design by Warren Chappell. Hiroshima orginally appeared in The New Yorker. Very good. Clean, tight, & attractive. Fair. Repaired edge chipping. Inch and a half piece rear wrap bottom absent. Half inch missing pieces of top and bottom of spine. Protected by new Mylar wrap.

Seller: Rosebud Books, golconda, IL, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($1.75 price intact). Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold with brown topstain. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to boards. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, small tears, and light spotting. A very scarce, very good first printing of this landmark piece of American journalism. 118 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.

HERSEY, John. HIROSHIMA. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 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."

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

HERSEY, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Original publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and blind-stamped to upper board, with dust jacket (torn), otherwise a very good copy. First edition in book form of Hersey's classic story of six people who survived the atom bomb explosion over Hiroshima. The story was first printed in The New Yorker, Vol. XXII, No. 29, on August 31, 1946.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Edition : First edition., Original blue cloth boards with green title to upper board and spine, edges uncut. , This is Hersey?s best-known work. An American journalist, he travelled to Hiroshima just months after the blast to collect stories of six survivors whose accounts he narrates in this work of New Journalism. First published in full in the New Yorker, the issue sold out in hours and was rushed into a second printing. Radio stations quickly began airing readings of the article. Time magazine later called Hersey's account of the bombing "the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II.", Size : 8vo., P. 116 pp. Very good condition, no dust jacket.

Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Borzoi Books by Alfred A. Knopf. c. 1946., 1946.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Edition : First Edition., Publisher?s original hardcover full blue-grey cloth boards. Bling lettering of title and design on top of upper cover. Publisher?s mark on bottom cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Original maroon and tan dust jacket designed by Warren Chappell in plastic protective jacket. Minor tears to dust jacket. Maroon top edges. Front edges uncut., Size : 8vo. (188x130 mm), P. 1 ? 118.

Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo., 118pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, bound in dark green cloth with blind stamped title on the cover and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Brownish/reddish top-stain. Book is square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of off-setting to end-papers. Little or no wear save a tiny bump to the heel. Very well-preserved. Solis unclipped dust-jacket, ($1.75), has some tiny nicks to edges and extremities. Rubbing to hinges and folds. Toning to panels and spine. Not perfect but complete and presentable. An excellent collectable copy of the author's landmark work on the horrors of the atomic bomb. As poignant now as ever.

Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, rips.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Hersey, John.. Hiroshima.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in blue cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped. 118pp. The text appeared originally in The New Yorker, a whole issue being devoted to it, which created a sensation at the time. It stands as an iconic journalistic account of the survivors of a nuclear bomb explosion. Q18858

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

HERSEY, John. HIROSHIMA. , 1946.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Description: HERSEY, John. HIROSHIMA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Stated First edition (Book Club), inscribed: "For Fred Gullo:/ "It seemed a sheet of sun."/ (p.8)/John Hersey/New Haven,/June, 1972." 118 pp. Small, slim 8vo., grey cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine, and blind-stamped to upper board, top-edge stained red. This copy is a fine copy in a dust jacket that is moderately edgeworn, interally tape reinforced at the top and bottom of the spine with edge tears, nicks, and a few very small chips. There is no price on the inner flap. A scarce book inscribed. With: two other firsts, with dust jacket flap price of $1.75 each, in green cloth. The paler green cloth edition has some discoloration to the cloth on the front and rear boards. Dust jackets with moderate wear. The lot together:.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$995.00 + shipping

Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 118 pages. First printing. A handsome, collectible copy!

Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Copyright date 1946, First Edition, First Printing. In Very Good condition commensurate with age. Tight binding and clean boards, a small residue from a label upper right corner on the inside front fly leaf. Dust jacket aged and toned, unclipped. Wear on the DJ spine going about 1/3 of way up the spine starting from the bottom some shallow loss to upper spine end and rubbed corners and edges. owners stapm signature and number on front flyleaf

Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.

HERSEY, John [Kiyoshi Tanimoto]. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Small octavo, 117pp. First trade edition, after the initial appearance of the entire text as a single-subject issue of Life Magazine teh same year. A crisp, sound copy, very good or slightly better, in the publisher's dull green cloth with dull red topstain. Very gentle rubbing to corners, the spine mildly cocked, and a few marginal stains on the last few leaves, not affecting any text. Publisher's price of $1.75 written in pencil on the front free endpaper. Lacking the dust jacket. A magnificent copy, SIGNED by one of the subjects, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, on the front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by him in Japanese. In a few places in the text, someone has written in very light pencil the words "begin" and "stop" at the beginning and ending of some passages which relate the experience of Tanimoto. One suspects that these passages were being read aloud by someone who was introducing or honoring Tanimoto. Tanimoto was a Japanese convert to Christianity, who had studied at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta just before the war. Hersey's deeply human portrait of the effects of this apocapyptic weapon helped to spark decades-long debates worldwide about the realities and consequences of nuclear weapons. It is also considered by most literary critics to be the first widely read example of the "New Journalism," the writing style which borrows variuos conventions of literary fiction to tell true stories (a tradition continued by John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, and many others). Copies of "Hiroshima," when found signed, are usually signed by Hersey, and often with a quotation. Looking in commerce and auction records, we only know of two copies signed by any of the book's subjects. Scarce, and desirable thus.

Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Hersey's classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer and publisher Kirby Congdon on the front free endpaper, "For Kirby Congdon: 'The crux of the matter is whether total war.is justified even when it serves a just purpose.' pp. 117-118. John Hersey February 24, 1985." Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was judged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Hiroshima is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. "The quietest and the best of all the stories that have been written about the most spectacular explosion in the time of man" (New York Times Book Review). "John Hersey once described himself as a novelist of contemporary history In 1946 he visited Hiroshima, interviewed survivors of the first atomic bomb attack, and published the New Yorker article which changed him profoundly. In Hiroshima Hersey drew from the victims themselves the understanding of history that had eluded him as a war correspondent. The six Hiroshima residents told him how they had lived before the bomb struck, why they were not killed, and precisely how illness, exhaustion, and personal sorrow had qualified their survival" (Contemporary Novelists, 634).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition in book form of John Hersey's classic story of six people who survived the atom bomb explosion over Hiroshima. Signed by author and inscribed to a former owner on the title page with a quote from the book reading, "'The crux of the matter is whether total war is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.' --pp.117-118." [iv], 118, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's original gray cloth with upper board stamped stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, tanning to pages and a small tape ghosts the front free endpaper. In a Fair unclipped dust jacket which is toned, spine-faded, soiled and a little tattered with tape repairs made to the blindside at the spine and a split to the front spine joint. Hiroshima was first published as an entire August 31, 1946 issue of the New Yorker and here for the first time in book form. It is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's best known work, which tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: The original August 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker of Hersey's classic work and is the work's first appearance. The entire issue of the magazine is dedicated to Hersey's piece, and this example is a presentation copy, inscribed on the final page to poet and publisher Kirby Congdon, "For Kirby Congdon - John Hersey, February 24, 1985." Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was judged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed. Hiroshima is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. "The quietest and the best of all the stories that have been written about the most spectacular explosion in the time of man" (New York Times Book Review). "John Hersey once described himself as a novelist of contemporary history In 1946 he visited Hiroshima, interviewed survivors of the first atomic bomb attack, and published the New Yorker article which changed him profoundly. In Hiroshima Hersey drew from the victims themselves the understanding of history that had eluded him as a war correspondent. The six Hiroshima residents told him how they had lived before the bomb struck, why they were not killed, and precisely how illness, exhaustion, and personal sorrow had qualified their survival" (Contemporary Novelists, 634).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

HERSEY, John.. Hiroshima.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, 1946.

Price: US$8369.64 + shipping

Description: An excellent association copy of the Book Club edition, inscribed by all six of the survivors profiled in the book. Hersey's famous account of the experiences of six Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors "was the first significant account in English of the devastation of Hiroshima; it remains an enormously influential book, the account that introduces Hiroshima to most Western readers" (Minear, p. 7). The half-title is inscribed: "With best wishes, Wilhelm Kleinsorge, S.J.", who at the time the bomb was detonated was reading a Jesuit magazine; "Best regards to Major Mayer, Dr. M[asakazu] Fujii", who was about to read the Osaka Asahi; "Christian greeting to Major Mayer, Kiyoshi Tanimoto", who was about to unload a cart; "Please pray for many who are unfortunate and for Japan, Tosiko Sasaki", a clerk who had just sat down in her office, who also signs her name in Japanese with the date 6 August 1948 (the third anniversary of the bombing); and "Dr. Terufumi Sasaki Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital June 21, 1948", who was carrying blood for a Wassermann test. Hatsuyo Nakamura, who was standing by her kitchen window, signs her name in Japanese, also with the date 6 August 1948. The front free endpaper is additionally inscribed "Kiyoshi Tanimoto. Methodist Church". All of the above are pictured on the rear panel of the jacket. John Hersey (1914-1993) was one of the first proponents of New Journalism, which blends factual reporting with a novelistic prose style. He served as a war correspondent for Time and Life during the Second World War and became interested in the atomic bombings while covering the reconstruction of Japan. The initial publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker is the only time that the magazine has devoted an entire issue to a single story. It remains one of the 20th-century's most significant pieces of journalism. The Book Club edition is distinguished from the first edition by the small dot to the bottom right corner of the rear cover and the absence of the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page. In both editions, copies were issued simultaneously in blue and green cloth, with no priority stated. Richard M. Minear, ed. & trans., Hiroshima: Three Witnesses, 1990. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark red, Borzoi Books device to rear cover in same. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket of Fountaine Books, Ohio, to rear pastedown. Extremities a little rubbed, contents clean, some instances of clear and paper tape on covers and jacket, with subsequent slight loss to lettering and offset, its removal at jacket extremities affecting price and text on front flap and bottom edge of front panel, unclipped: a very good copy in good only jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom