May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
FRANK, ANNE. Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944 ["The House Behind: Diary Entries."] Illustrated with halftone frontispiece author portrait, 2 photographic reproductions of the interior of the house, 1 floor plan, and 2 facsimiles from Anne's diary. Original Dutch text. 8vo, original white and russet paper boards, spine toned as usual; frontis and title split with spine and text-block partly separated, Masch Spackler bookplate to front pastedown. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, (1947)

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the true first edition of anne frank's diary in unusually clean boards. One of only 1500 copies printed. After its initial release, the book was translated and published in more than 60 languages. It remains one of the most widely read books in the world. "Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic,' and yet no lesser designation serves. There is anguish in the thought of how much creative power, how much sheer beauty of living, was cut off through genocide. But through her diary Anne goes on living" (Books of the Century, 180, 183).