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John Hersey: 'Hiroshima', New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, never out of print, "Its story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust," New Yorker essayist Roger Angell wrote in 1995; together with a 1958 Penguin Paperback edition of the same title, plus G. Wilson Knight: 'Hiroshima: On Prophecy and the Sun-bomb', London, Andrew Dakers Ltd, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w. Scarce (3)
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