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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Frank, Anne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1952. First US edition, later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo (7.5"x5.25"). Black cloth-covered boards with silver-stamped title to spine, green photographic endpapers. Slightly cocked. 1/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. Previous owner's bookplate to half title. Textblock edges and pages toned. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: faded spine, large chips missing at head of spine panel and top edges, edgewear, toned, rubbed, NOT price-clipped ($3.00). First published in Holland, 1947 under the title: Het Achterhuis/The Back House. Translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Synopsis
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the writings from a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved by Anne's father, Otto Frank.
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On Sep 17 2011, Meganclaycohen said:
Great book!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4027
- Title
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Author
- Frank, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US edition, later printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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