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Product Description: Take an epic journey through space and time! Your “spaceship” will be this innovative book, with its nine connected double-page spreads that open out to a single, highly illustrated 14-foot panorama. From the Earth’s surface you’ll fly through the atmosphere, to the International Space Station, past the sun, and right to the edge of the universe...read more
By John Hersey (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781783122370 | Carlton Books Ltd, October 4, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Take an epic journey through space and time!

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Product Description: Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. With what Bruce Bliven called "the simplicity of genius," John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a...read more

Hardcover:

9788499925172, titled "Hiroshima: La Crónica Sobre Seis Supervivientes De Hiroshima Que Se Convirtió En Un Gran Clásico Del Periodismo" | Debate Editorial, July 14, 2015, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history.

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Product Description: "Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity." -- The New York Times

Hardcover:

9780816159789 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1994), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors, and includes a final chapter written forty years after the explosion
9780899668444 | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors
9781555041441 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, November 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In an enlarged edition of the account of the devastation wrought by the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hersey recounts his return to Japan, forty years later, and his interviews with the six people who were the focus of the earlier book
9780394548449 | Exp sub edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1985), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this new enlarged edition of his classic account of the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, Hersey recounts his return to Japan, forty years later and his interviews with six people who were the focus of the earlier book

Paperback:

9788087888827 | Lightning Source Inc, January 29, 2014, cover price $7.75 | About this edition: John Richard Hersey (1914-1993), a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and Mew Journalist.
9780923891657 | Lightning Source Inc, December 2, 2011, cover price $19.95
9788483468548 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, April 30, 2009), cover price $10.95
9789706516732 | Oceano De Mexico, June 1, 2002, cover price $17.62
9780679721031 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity
4 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781572708402 | Blackstone Audio Inc, March 28, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: August 6, 1945.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572700031 | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, December 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An account of the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city in 1945 is updated by follow-up interviews with victims forty years after the attack.

Reinforced:

9780606001946 | Demco Media, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.10 | About this edition: The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity

Prebinding:

9781439570395 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.50 | About this edition: HIROSHIMA By JOHN HERSEY PUBLISHERS NOTE ON Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened.
9780881030259 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity

An American major attempts to rebuild a ravaged Italian town during the World War II occupation

Hardcover:

9781560542667, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An American major attempts to rebuild a ravaged Italian town during the World War II occupation
9780899668451, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize.

Paperback:

9780394756950, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An American major attempts to rebuild ravaged Italian town during the World War II occupation
9780553202878, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, July 1, 1982), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize.
9780877207498, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Amsco School Pubns Inc, June 1, 1970, cover price $11.17 | About this edition: A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize.

Library:

9780531001608, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Franklin Watts, June 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize.

Reinforced:

9780606037280, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Demco Media, April 1, 1988, cover price $22.35 | About this edition: An American major attempts to rebuild ravaged Italian town during the World War II occupation

Prebinding:

9781439513484, titled "A Bell for Adano" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $22.95
9780833502124 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: An American major attempts to rebuild ravaged Italian town during the World War II occupation

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Product Description: A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze -- until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax...read more

Hardcover:

9781560543381 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The story of an American engineer and his trip on the great Yangtze River aboard a one hundred-foot junk provides a touching human drama played out against the awe-inspiring grandeur of the river

Paperback:

9780394756974 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An often perilous journey up the Yangtze River aboard a Chinese junk provides a young and impatient American engineer new insights into life's meaning
9780553206838 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, May 1, 1982), cover price $2.50 | also contains Rustler's Moon | About this edition: The story of an American engineer and his trip on the great Yangtze River aboard a one hundred-foot junk provides a touching human drama played out against the awe-inspiring grandeur of the river.

Prebinding:

9781439513644 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites.

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Product Description: August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing a hundred thousand people. Considered a journalistic masterpiece, Hiroshima tells the story of six survivors during the days that immediately followed the bomb...read more

Miscellaneous:

9781602528376 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, November 1, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: August 6, 1945.

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Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution

Hardcover:

9780394607986, titled "The Wall" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1950, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution

Paperback:

9780394756967, titled "The Wall" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution
9780553200539 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1981), cover price $3.25 | also contains Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders | About this edition: Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution

Prebinding:

9780613656801 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution

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Paperback:

9781586635213 | Spark Pub Group, August 1, 2003, cover price $5.95

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Includes the work of nearly ninety writers, including Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, A.J. Liebling, and Edward R. Murrow, capturing the urgency of events as they happened. (view table of contents)
By John Hersey (editor)

Paperback:

9781931082051 | Library of America, May 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Includes the work of nearly ninety writers, including Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, A.

Paperback:

9780801857775 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 19, 1997), cover price $26.00

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A collection of short stories set in Key West, Florida, features such tales as 'Fantasy Fest,' in which a man searches for his natural mother during a Halloween festival. By the author of A Bell for Adano. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679429920 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories set in Key West features such tales as 'Fantasy Fest,' in which a man searches for his natural mother during a Halloween festival

Paperback:

9780679772637 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Collects short stories set in Key West, and features such tales as 'Fantasy Fest,' in which a man searches for his natural mother during a Halloween festival

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Product Description: Dust jacket is taped along top edge, and has many small tears and scuffs along edges.. Pages are clean and in good condition. Small name sticker on inside front cover. Binding is tight! Buy with confidence, we ship daily!

Hardcover:

9781568495323 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Dust jacket is taped along top edge, and has many small tears and scuffs along edges.

Paperback:

9780679725701 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Collectible

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Follows the odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation in 1699, through its impact on musicians and composers as diverse as Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky, to its purchase in 1990 by a tone-deaf financier

Paperback:

9780679741817 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1993), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Follows the odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation in 1699, through its impact on musicians and composers as diverse as Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky, to its purchase in 1990 by a tone-deaf financier

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Two famous satirical novels by America's first Nobel Prize winner for literature--Main Street and Babbitt--are bound into one volume to provide a provocative portrait of American society that still applies to today's way of life.
By John Hersey (editor) and Sinclair Lewis

Hardcover:

9780940450615 | Library of America, November 1, 1992, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Two of Lewis' novels depict the hipocrisy and complacency of middle-class America

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Product Description: How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change―a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become less familiar than the fiery trails of space-bound vehicles, and Victorian propriety has yielded to unabashed self-expression? The short answer―carefully; certainly not without considerable tension and the constant need to mediate between the forces of tradition and innovation...read more

Hardcover:

9781561310586 | New Amsterdam Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change―a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become less familiar than the fiery trails of space-bound vehicles, and Victorian propriety has yielded to unabashed self-expression?

Product Description: Book by Hersey, John

Hardcover:

9780394583389 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories contemplates the rich variety of human experience--from a worldly septuagenarian couple indulging in their last f$1

Paperback:

9780679735373, titled "Fling: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Hersey, John

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Retells the stories of PT-109, combat at Guadalcanal, and the crew of a crashed B-52 attempting to survive on a small raft in the Pacific

Paperback:

9780590446495 | Scholastic, September 1, 1991, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Retells the stories of PT-109, combat at Guadalcanal, and the crew of a crashed B-52 attempting to survive on a small raft in the Pacific

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Follows the odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation in 1699, through its impact on musicians and composers as diverse as Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky, to its purchase in 1990 by a tone-deaf financier

Hardcover:

9780679401940 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Follows the odyssey of a Stradivarius violin from its creation in 1699, through its impact on musicians and composers as diverse as Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky, to its purchase in 1990 by a tone-deaf financier

The author presents a collection of his biographical sketches of memorable individuals both famous and obscure, from Sinclair Lewis and John F. Kennedy to the children of the Holocaust

Hardcover:

9780394577845 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author presents a collection of his biographical sketches of memorable individuals both famous and obscure, from Sinclair Lewis and John F.

Paperback:

9780679731962 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The author presents a collection of his biographical sketches of memorable individuals both famous and obscure, from Sinclair Lewis and John F.

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Re-creates the agony and glory of a jungle skirmish of the U.S. Marines
By Donald L. Dickson (illustrator) and John Hersey

Hardcover:

9780805240788 | Revised edition (Schocken Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Re-creates the agony and glory of a jungle skirmish of the U.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556442933 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $13.95

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During a series of hearings Mr. Wizzey Jones is forced to reveal the shocking activities of a corporation which deals in children

Hardcover:

9780394419107, titled "Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of a Certain State Senate" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1960, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: During a series of hearings, Mr.

Paperback:

9780394756981 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: During a series of hearings Mr.

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Ansel Adams photographs, an essay by John Hersey, and historical commentary document the day-to-day life in a World War II internment-camp

Hardcover:

9780812917277 | Times Books, November 1, 1988, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Ansel Adams photographs, an essay by John Hersey, and historical commentary document the day-to-day life in a World War II internment-camp

Product Description: HIROSHIMA By JOHN HERSEY PUBLISHERS NOTE ON Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened. After years of intensive research and experiment, conducted In their later stages mainly in America., by scientists of many nationalities, Japanese among them, the forces which hold together the con stituent particles of the atom had at last been harnessed to mans use: and on that day man used them...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556442926 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: HIROSHIMA By JOHN HERSEY PUBLISHERS NOTE ON Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened.

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