A BELL FOR ADANO - JOHN HERSEY - FRANKLIN LIBRARY - SIGNED 60 - FINE LEATHER

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A BELL FOR ADANO - JOHN HERSEY - FRANKLIN LIBRARY - SIGNED 60 - FINE LEATHER:
$24.95

-- A Bell for Adano --

Pulitzer Prize winning - John Hersey

Illustrated by Mitchell Hooks

The Franklin Library

\"Signed 60\" Limited Edition

Signed by the Author

Includes protective tissue guard for the signature page

Beautiful Binding in Heavy Genuine Leather

Premium Quality

FINE - Excellent

Never Read - Satin Page Marker unmoved from publisher\'s placement

No writings, stamps, or nameplates from previous ownership

Offering from a pet and smoke-free home.

No Longer Available from the Publisher

An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.

John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage. Hersey\'s account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel under the aegis of New York University\'s journalism department.

The Franklin Library \"Signed 60\" collection is widely considered to be one of the most spectacular and valuable of the Franklin Library or Easton Press collections. All titles in the 60 Signed Limited Editions series were privately printed between 1977 and 1982 and signed by the author. They are bound in genuine leather, with gilt page edges, 22k gold accents, and sewn-in bookmarks. As Franklin Library closed in 2000, all titles in the 60 Signed Limited Editions series are out of print with many considered very rare. This luxurious collection includes Tennessee Williams - Selected Plays, Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five, Jean-Paul Sartre - Five Plays, Truman Capote - Other Voices, Other Rooms, Joseph Heller - Catch 22, Robert Penn Warren - All the King\'s Men, and many more.

In addition to their gorgeous leather bindings, Franklin Library Press books are known for their interior illustrations. The Franklin Library commissioned fine art illustrations from known artists for many of their titles. These illustrations were commissioned to be used only for that particular Franklin Library book, and cannot be found anywhere else.

Exclusive Leather-Bound Collector\'s Edition

Genuine Premium Leather
Moire Silk Endsheets
Permanent Satin Ribbon Page Marker
22-karat Gold Gilded Page Edges
Archival 50 lb. Paper to Prevent Tanning
Luxurious Spines Hubbed with Raised Ring

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