Hiroshima Diary, Czech cover

Title:

Hiroshima Diary, Czech cover

Rights:

Hiroshima Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warner Wells

Source:

Hiroshima Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warner Wells

Publisher:

Svobodné slovo-Melantrich

Date:

1956

Contributor:

UNC Press

Citation:

Mičihiko Hačija, Deník z Hirošimy : Zápisky Japonského Lékaře od 6. Srpna do 30. Září 1945, (Praha : Svobodné slovo-Melantrich, 1956), Hiroshima Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warner Wells.

Alternative Text:

The cover from Czechoslovakia is perhaps the most stylized of the group of book covers. The two bottom corners features alternating black and yellow stripes, some thin and straight, but most vary in width and look more like lightning bolts or torn paper edges in their shape. A good portion of the book, maybe half of it is black, starting between the bottom corners and reaching toward the top quarter of the book. The author's name and book title are in the white text in this black space, but also between the bottom corners is an eye. The sclera, the normally white part of the eye is a deep red color. The iris is yellow, and the pupil is black. The yellow and black lines that start at the bottom left corner seem to wrap around and continue above the text and toward the top of the black part of the book. Above this is a thicker white line that extends across the width of the cover, that is again craggy and varying in size. The black part looks like the peaks of mountains in the forefront with slightly taller white mountains behind them. Above these white mountain peaks is a yellow background with mostly thin black stripes shooting out from the mountains, some on top of the white.

The cover from Czechoslovakia is perhaps the most stylized of the group of book covers. The two bottom corners features alternating black and yellow stripes, some thin and straight, but most vary in width and look more like lightning bolts or torn paper edges in their shape. A good portion of the book, maybe half of it is black, starting between the bottom corners and reaching toward the top quarter of the book. The author's name and book title are in the white text in this black space, but also between the bottom corners is an eye. The sclera, the normally white part of the eye is a deep red color. The iris is yellow, and the pupil is black. The yellow and black lines that start at the bottom left corner seem to wrap around and continue above the text and toward the top of the black part of the book. Above this is a thicker white line that extends across the width of the cover, that is again craggy and varying in size. The black part looks like the peaks of mountains in the forefront with slightly taller white mountains behind them. Above these white mountain peaks is a yellow background with mostly thin black stripes shooting out from the mountains, some on top of the white.

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