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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Contributor:
Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991.
Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)
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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