THE NEW YORKER: HIROSHIMA by Hersey, John [A Reporter at Large] - 1946

New York: The New Yorker, 1946. First Edition. Quarto, 68 pages; VG; in original illustrated wraps; one strip of tape to front and rear gutters each, plus one small piece of tape to first page; housed in a brown folder with gilt titling; CX consignment; shelved case 1. "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk." With this sentence Hersey opened perhaps the most well-known piece The New Yorker has ever published. When it appeared, in August, 1946, it took up an entire issue, the first time the magazine had ever done such a thing. Within two months it was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf. Telling the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, it changed the view of the American public about the dropping of the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the impact they had. 1346769. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.