An August to Remember (Imprint No. 2)

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William Shirer, who worked as a journalist for the duration of World War II, and even spent the first year of the war reporting from Berlin, describes his own thought process after the unleashing of atomic bombs on Japan, and considers how the world will forever be changed.

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Description

This book was set in Baskerville Monotype by the Mackenzie-Harris corporation in San Francisco. It was hand-printed on a Vandercook press on Arches paper from France in July 1986 at the Penmaen Press in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The cover illustration is by Irena Martens and the design and printing are by Luke Ives Pontifell. Fifty hardcover copies have been bound by hand and numbered I through L.

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Dimensions

6 7/8" x 5 1/2"
16 leaves, pp. 1-10; 11-25; 26-32

Edition

Limited to 250 copies, soft-cover
Published: 1986
BINDING: Quarter brown linen and bark paper boards. Top and bottom edges trimmes. 'AN AUGUST TO REMEMBER WILLIAM SHIRER' in red on front cover, 'T

The Author

William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent, known for his broadcasts from Berlin during World War II, and for his often cited book, The Rise and Fall of the T

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