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Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, dec 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Very good condition. Small octavo. Hard cover, pp 253. No dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. One of the booklets printed ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO in dec 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor.Title on the front board and spine. A very good copy! Pages are a little bit tanned after all these years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place ( 'Het Achterhuis') by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the concentration-camps. Miep Gies was one of the helpers during their… Read More

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, dec 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Very good condition. Small octavo. Hard cover, pp 253. Dust jacket included. Damaged dustjacket has had a professional restoration. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. One of the booklets printed ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO in dec 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor. Title on the front board and spine. A very good copy! Pages are a little bit tanned after all these years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place ( 'Het Achterhuis') by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the… Read More

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1947. Very good.. First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures. Begun on her 13th birthday, Anne Frank's notebooks record the following two years of her family's life in hiding, her final entry made just days before the family's arrest and internment; the afterword records her death in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Conventionally known as a "diary, " Frank's text was written and rewritten in the form of letters to an imaginary "Kitty" and composed with an eye not only to posterity but to eventual publication: in May of 1944, she began to edit and rewrite her previous entries in a second notebook: assigning pseudonyms to the people she wrote about, removing unsatisfactory entries and expanding others, and standardizing her chosen literary form. The title HET ACHTERHUIS (literally "The House Behind" or "The Secret Annex") was her own.… Read More

Amsterdam: Contact, 1947.

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