Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank, Anne; (Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt); Translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday - 1952

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. Very Good condition in a Good+ dust jacket. SEE PHOTOS. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart sleeve (removed for photos). NOT price-clipped ($3.00). The spine of the jacket is still distinctly red and quite bright (only a little faded -- much less than many other copies which are very faded or even no longer red at all but sun-bleached to white. If you care about condition, be sure to see a photo of the jacket's spine when considering other copies). The jacket has a few small edge chips and a crease to the corner of its rear turn-in flap. SEE PHOTOS. Top edge tinted red. Square and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. This is the first printing of the first American Edition, and the first to be translated into English. The rear panel of the dust jacket does NOT have a numeric code [explained below]. Endpapers are illustrated with photographs, tinted BROWN [explained below]. This is a desirable copy of a book tough-to-find in First Edition. [Note: We have examined several other copies of this title, also dated 1952, that had green-tinted endpaper photos or plain white endpapers. However, all of them lacked the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page. Unlike this first edition, many of these later printings had the code "125" on the rear panel of the dust jacket at the lower left bottom corner]. Illustrated with 3 diagrams (floor plans) of the annex, and brown-tinted endpaper photos. Anne Frank's diary encompasses the period from June 1942 to July 1944, during which time the Frank family was hidden by friends in a Dutch warehouse. This book was first published in 1947 in Dutch as HET ACHTERHUIS. First issue jacket with $3.00 price at top right, just below the front inner flap code ("A.F.:T.D.O.A.Y.G.") SEE PHOTOS. Szonyi 51 and 184: "The famous account of a [German born] Dutch Jewish girl's ordeal in hiding, THE DIARY captures both the physical claustrophobia of hiding and a sensitive adolescent's hopes for the future." Laska 1500. Edelheit 3696. Snyder 149: Anne Frank (1929-45) was a German-Jewish girl who with her family hid from the Gestapo in Amsterdam for two years and died in Belsen concentration camp. An immediate sensation, her diary was translated eventually into thirty-two languages and later became a successful stage play and motion picture." A Snyder asterisk item, meaning one he regards as "outstanding." Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny silver on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. 5.25" wide by 7.5" tall.. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good+ dust jacket. Illus. by Suess, Ursula (jacket design). 285pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.