Hiroshima by John Hersey ; with a new poem by Robert Penn Warren and silk-screens by Jacob LawrenceCall Number: RISD Special Oversize D767.25.H6 H4 1983
Publication Date: 1983
Hiroshima originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1946. This is copy 1120 of the fifteen hundred copies that were printed by Bruce Chandler and Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress in Hadley, Massachusetts. The book was designed by Ben Shiff. The text was hand set in Foundry Optima Medium at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry, Ashuelot Village, New Hampshire. The eight original silkscreens were printed in eleven colors at The Studio Heinrici Ltd., New York City. The book was full bound in black aniline leather at Robert Burlen & Son. Signed by John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren, and Jacob Lawrence.