May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(JAPAN.) Hiroshima-Nagasaki. Profusely illustrated with powerful black-and-white and color reproductions of photographs depicting the aftermath of the atomic bombs. Large 4to, silver-stamped red leatherette-backed photo-pictorial cloth; original boards slipcase; issued with a 45rpm record entitled "A Message for Tomorrow," which is laid in. first edition. Tokyo, Japan: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Publishing Committee, 1978

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Published by the Committee of Japanese Citizens "To send gift copies of a photographic and pictorial record of the Atomic bombing to our children and fellow human beings of the world." This compelling book contains images depicting the devastation of the two atomic bombs dropped by the Americans, which were commonly referred to as Fat Man and Little Boy.