Frank, Anne. Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944 [“The House Behind: Diary Entries.”]

(HOLOCAUST).

Contact - Ellerman Harms

Amsterdam

1947

FIRST EDITION IN ANY LANGUAGE. Original Dutch text. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Anne Frank. Between pp. 22-23, photograph of trap door to attic, and facsimile of last page of Anne’s diary. Complete, with the immensely scarce dust-jacket.

THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF ANNE FRANK’S DIARY. A fine copy with scarce dust-jacket. One of only 1500 copies printed. The Diary of Anne Frank provides an intimate portrait of a German-Jewish family in hiding during the Nazi occupation occupation of Amsterdam. The American edition, entitled “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” appeared in 1952, at which time Eleanor Roosevelt proclaimed the diary to be “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war.” As a result of its universal appeal, it is considered one of the key texts of the 20th-century and has sold more than 25 million copies, translated into more than 60 languages. “Anne Frank’s diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label ‘classic,’ and yet no lesser designation serves” (Books of the Century, 180).