335 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-panel color illustration preceding title page and full-page color illustrations in text by John Thompson. Author's Pulitzer Prize winning second novel, which inspired the Broadway play starring Fredric March and several other adaptations. Jacket design by George Salter. "A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels."
