This auction is for the hardcover leather bound Heirloom Edition book One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001. Published in 2001 by The Easton Press, in association with the editors of LIFE Magazine.
Large hardcover book (9 x 11 x 1 inches) with dark blue leather bound pictorial boards, fabric moire silk endpapers, 22kt gold gilt page edges, silk ribbon, 192 pages. With a photograph of both the Statue of Liberty and the Twin Towers on the front cover. This extraordinary volume contains over 260 color and black-and-white images and diagrams, a moving foreword by Rudolph Giuliani and specially commissioned essays by some of America's finest authors. First Edition, First Printing.
This exclusive leather-bound Heirloom Edition is in like new condition. No reminder mark, names, writing, underlining or highlighting. Tight binding. The book has a built in silk ribbon bookmark. Without dust jacket as issued.
During our nation's most trying times, it has been LIFE that has provided the images that help us understand, remember, and in the process, renew. Now the editors of LIFE have assembled a moving, brilliantly illustrated account of tragedy and triumph. This is about firemen going in amidst the rubble, but it is also about a Frenchman in Paris holding up a sign that says, "We are all Americans." This is about our leaders taking charge, but it is also about schoolchildren in Iowa hanging an American flag on a tree in their backyard. Beginning with the history of lower Manhattan, the book explains what happened on September 11, profiles many of the heroes, victims and rescuers (fireman, police, doctors, and rescue dogs among them), and paints an inspiring portrait if a nation and world coming together in sadness, pride and resolve.The book is more than photographs. Explanatory text runs throughout, and the book also includes a selection of original essays about America and September 11, written by such notables as Maya Angelou, Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), Stephen Ambrose, Melissa Fay Greene (The Temple Bombing), Andrei Codrescu, Gordon Parks, Doug Stanton (In Harm's Way), Bob Greene (Duty), James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), and others. All profits from the sales of this book will be donated to American Red Cross, September 11th Fund, International Association of Fire Fighters, New York Fraternal Order of Police WTC Fund, The National Organization for Victim Assistance, and The Twin Towers Fund. When Americans think of photographic journalism at its finest, they think of LIFE magazine. This book will draw upon the best photographers employed by TIME, LIFE, PEOPLE and other magazines. Many of the photographers have had their own collections published in book form.