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Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1947. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing, in the original Dutch language. Bound in publisher's original paper covered boards stamped in terracotta. Very Good or better with light lean to binding, toning and rubbing to covers, light wear to spine ends. Toning to pages and foxing mainly to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. The diary of Anne Frank, which was kept while in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. A coming of age tale charged by the triumph of the human spirit and it's strength in the face of adversity.

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1947. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing, in the original Dutch language. Bound in publisher's original paper covered boards stamped in terracotta. Very Good or better with light lean to binding, toning and rubbing to covers, light wear to spine ends. Former owner name and date to preliminary blank, pages toned, hinge at title page exposed. The diary of Anne Frank, which was kept while in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. A coming of age tale charged by the triumph of the human spirit and it's strength in the face of adversity. It leaves the reader helpless--armed with an uneasy yearning to right this historical wrong, and pained by a deep sorrow in knowing that it is impossible to do so.

Amsterdam: Contact, 1947. First Edition. Original boards, original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION; AN OUTSTANDING COPY IN THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. One of only 1500 copies printed of one of the central works of the twentieth century. Complete with three photographic plates, including the frontispiece portrait of Anne Frank. "The diary written by Anne Frank is probably the single most widely read book to come out of the Holocaust (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952; first published as Het Achterhuis, 1947). Millions of readers have read the story of the teenage girl's two years in hiding. It has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and published in as many countries. Her diary was also the foundation for a successful drama performed worldwide (The Diary of Anne Frank, 1956) and a film of the same title (1959). Especially in the last twenty years, many schoolchildren and adults alike have had their first exposure to the effects of… Read More