Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, (1952). First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 285. Translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Top edge dyed brown. Black cloth with spine lettered in silver. In the dust jacket with $3.00 price present, fading to spine panel, short closed tear with crease top edge front panel. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #12140 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
In the first New York Times review of the diary, 1952, Meyer Levin had the prescience to write, "Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic,' and yet no lesser designation serves." That assessment holds today.
Price: $3,500.00