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A Bell For Adano
by Hersey, John
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- As New
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mitchell Hooks. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed, limited edition. Signed by Hersey on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Accompanied by the quite scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Octavo, 291 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Hersey's 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the bonding of an American officer and the townspeople of Adano, in Italy, during World War II. Artist Mitchell Hooks echoes the mood in nice detail. Rich Forest topgrain leather binding, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, Old Gold moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove; text set in 11-point Goudy Olde Style typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from John Hersey" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece. Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln2
Synopsis
A Bell for Adano is a film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. The film was adapted from the novel A Bell for Adano by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo, who is placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily.
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- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60026
- Title
- A Bell For Adano
- Author
- Hersey, John
- Illustrator
- Mitchell Hooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 291
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Classics, Literary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
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