Stated first trade edition, copyright page. A collection of brief biographies of 18 individuals (or groups of individuals) who were important to the author, praised for his status as a "New Journalist" and who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his "A Bell For Adano". Photos of Mr. Hersey's subjects are sprinkled throughout. --- In cream paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth with titling gilt-stamped on cover and spine. Jacket with Helen Knopf portrait of Mr. Hersey and his publisher, Alfred Knopf. --- A clean, sound copy lacking obvious damages. Bright jacket with a small tear, and with a little wrinkling and rubbing; is otherwise in good shape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 377 pages