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Hiroshima / John Hersey.
Van Pelt Library D767.25.H6 H4 1946
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection D767.25.H6 H4 1946 Zinman copy
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LIBRA - Rare D767.25.H6 H4 1946 Potok copy
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LIBRA - Temporarily Unavailable 940.54W H438
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Atomic bomb--Blast effect.
- Atomic bomb.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 117 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- New York : Composed, printed, and bound by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
- Contents:
- A noiseless flash
- The fire
- Details are being investigated
- Panic grass and feverfew.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc."
- "Originally appeared in the New Yorker."
- "The text of this book has been set on the Linotype in a type-face called 'Baskerville.' The face is a facsimile reproduction of types cast from oulds made for John Baskerville (1706-1775) from his designs."
- "Typography, binding and jacket design by Warren Chappell."
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok 1946".
- Potok Collection copy has "First Edition" statement wanting.
- OCLC:
- 397886
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