Hiroshima - ECU Libraries Catalog

Hiroshima / John Hersey ; with a new poem by Robert Penn Warren and silk-screens by Jacob Lawrence.

Author/creator	Hersey, John, 1914-1993
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York City : Limited Editions Club, 1983.
Description	112 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : 8 color illustrations ; 33 cm
Supplemental Content	Title pages for book and included poem, front fly-leaf with colored serigraph,
Subject(s)	World War, 1939-1945--Japan --Hiroshima-shi. Atomic bomb--Blast effect. Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History --Bombardment, 1945.

Other author/creator	Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 illustrator.
Other author/creator	Shiff, Ben, book designer.
Included Work	Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 New dawn.
Included Work	Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 inscriber.
Included Work	Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Abstract	Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
Local note	Inscribed "To Stuart [Wright] ... Red [Robert Penn Warren]. May 27, 1987." Initialed at colophon "RPW [Robert Penn Warren]" and autographed John Hersey and Jacob Lawrence. Laid in are corrected page proofs of Warren's poem. Stuart Wright Book Collection #168.34. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General note	Limited ed. of 1,500 copies, designed by Ben Shiff, and signed by Hersey, Warren, and Lawrence.
General note	Issued in slipcase (34 cm.).
References	Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 535
References	Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 535
Acquisitions source	Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2010479164

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	Stuart Wright Collection	D767.25.H6 H4 1983	✔ Available	Request Material