Hersey John Text (3 results)
Published by New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1957
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No. 207 of 1500 copies; signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with 12 full-page aquatints plus small drawings in the margins. Condition: cloth spine slightly sunfaded; else near fine in slightly worn & nicked but very good slipcase. 545 pages. Signed by Illustrator(s)….
Into the Valley. a Skirmish with the Marines.
Hersey, John. (Text) Dickson, Maj. Donald L. (Illustrations)
Published by Knopf, New York, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Playwright Clifford Odet's copy wit his embossed stamp at head of front end-paper. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. (Trace of shelf soiling on rear paste-down. Couple hal; f-inch tears on rear panel of jacket.…) Interesting association copy. Account of the Marines on Guadalcanal. ; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; 138 pages.
More imagesHIROSHIMA - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Hersey, John (text); Warren, Robert Penn (poem); Lawrence, Jacob (illustrations)
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1983
- Signed
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
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Limited Edition. One of 1,500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors, this being copy no.573. Quarto (32.75cm); full black aniline leather, with title embossed onto front cover; all edges stained black; publisher's original black cloth slipcase; unpaged; illustrated throughout with eight silkscreen prints… by Jacob Lawrence, printed in 11 colors, each with an interleaved tissue guard. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, with some light external wear, and some minor separation to the inner cloth lining around the lower opening. A masterful production by The Limited Editions Club of Hersey's 1946 book, chronicling the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Hersey's work comprised the entirety of the August 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and was subsequently published in book format a few months later by Alfred A. Knopf. In addition to a new afterword by the author, and a poem by Robert Penn Warren ("New Dawn: Hiroshima"), this edition features eight full-page silkscreen prints by renown African American painter Jacob Lawrence. In his artist's note, he mentioned going into mental retreat after reading the book. "Because this book is such a strong statement of man's inhumanity to man, I found this work to be a most challenging book to illustrate. In my attempt to meet the challenge, I read and reread Hiroshima several times and, in doing so, I began to see the great devastation in the twisted and mutilated bodies of humans, birds, fishes and all the other animals and living things that inherit our earth. The flora and the fauna and the land that were at one time alive, were now seared, mangled, deformed and devoid of life. And I thought, what have we accomplished over these many centuries? We have produced great geniuses in music, the sciences, the arts, dance, literature, architecture and oratory among many other disciplines. And we have in the meantime developed the means to destroy, in a most horrible manner, that life that is our God-given right." LEC Bibliography No.535.
