Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augusten 1944
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, (1948). Third Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small octavo. Pp. 253. Dutch language. Patterned endpapers. Portrait frontispiece, two plates, a plan and two facsimiles of author's handwriting. Original light gray boards with spine lettered in orange, orange title block to front board, bookseller label to front pastedown, slight toning to pages. A much nicer copy than usually seen in the rare original dust jacket, chips to spines ends and extremities, creasing to spine and front panel, flaps split with internal tape repairs, Near Fine / Good. Item #12994 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.
Early printing of the The Diary of Anne Frank. Seminal work of Holocaust Studies. Appears on numerous Best Books of the 20th Century lists.The bookseller tag is that of Boekhandel Joachimsthal (Amsterdam), for decades a cultural hub for the city's Jewish community. The store re-opened after WWII, but only after the Nazis destroyed the storefront and deported the owners, 1941.
Price: $7,500.00