A Bell for Adano, John Hersey, 1944, First edition, Signed

Description: [vii], 269pp, 5.5" x 8". Singed by the author on a decorative bookplate at the front endpaper. 1944, First edition first printing with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page with no subsequent printings. Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, about the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town during World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945. With its original dust jacket. The original price of $2.50 is present on the front flap. John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage.In 1999, Hiroshima, 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.

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