The New Yorker's issue of August 31, 1946 was entirely devoted to a single editorial piece, John Hersey's "Hiroshima." The landmark article on the nuclear destruction of a Japanese city was published in book form that year by Alfred A. Knopf. Nearly forty years later, author Kirby Congdon had Hersey sign copies of the magazine and the first edition of the book. They were both inscribed to the poet on February 24, 1985. Yesterday, they were sold together at auction by PBA Galleries of Berkeley.
The auction house provides us with a few photographs of the very collectible issue of the magazine. Unfortunately, we don't get to see the final page of the article where Hersey signed.
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The book is signed and inscribed on the title page with a quotation from the book:
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| John Hersey PBA Galleries listing accessed April 23, 2023 |
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