Hiroshima, 1931
Poetry in France and England.
London: Hogarth Press, 1931.
Price: $125.00
About the item
First edition. The Hogarth Lectures on Literature No. 15. 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hiroshima, 1931. Orange cloth titled in red. Spine faded, spine ends worn with loss. Good plus copy without the dust jacket. Woolmer 272.
Item #325379
With the ownership signature of “Katharine Johnson, Hiroshima, Japan, November 1931”
Johnson (1894-1959) was a Methodist missionary who taught at Hiroshima Girls School for nearly twenty years, before the second world war. In her her retirement, she wrote a work of historical fiction, published pusthumously as Hiroshima. Chronicles of a Survivor (1994).
