Books with title A Bell for Adano

A Bell For Adano, John Hersey, Knopf, 1944, 8th printing of author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 269 pages. Description: Book; brown boards with gold lettering and gold bell on the spine, title blind embossed on the front board, publisher's colophon blind embossed on rear board, plain endpapers, top edge green. No Borzoi dog on spine. Dust jacket; Red front panel, red spine with pink back panel and flaps, front panel lettering is pink and also shows an art deco image by George Salter. Front flap not price clipped, rear flap carries the Buy Bonds promotion on the bottom follow by the print line number 8000-c-6-1944 which corresponds with 8th printing (June). Book synopsis occupies both panels, Borzoi dog on spine, author's bio on back panel along with a photo of him behind the wheel of a Jeep. Author's name is in blue ink, all other lettering is red.

All of the summer and early fall of 1942 the author was attached as a Time and Life correspondent to a Navy Task Force in the Pacific during World War II. For two-weeks in October he was on Guadalcanal, where he bunked with a naval aviator, swatted mosquitoes, dodged bombs, helped to rescue wounded men under fire, and went into action with the Marines. In the early summer of '43 he was in Africa and accompanied the American Invasion Forces to Sicily. He wrote this book shortly after his return to this country.