A Bell For Adano

The first edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1944. It was 269 pages long, and the original retail price was $2.50. The first edition identification points are as follows: "First Edition" is stated, with no other references to printing. The first printing has olive cloth with large picture of italian buildings.

A Bell For Adano won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Picture of the 1944 first edition dust jacket for A Bell For Adano.

Picture of the first edition copyright page for A Bell For Adano.

Picture of dust jacket where original $2.50 price is found for A Bell For Adano.

Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of A Bell For Adano.

Picture of the first edition Alfred A. Knopf boards for A Bell For Adano.

Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of A Bell For Adano.

Other first edition points for books by John Hersey include: Hiroshima, Antonietta.

  

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