TITLE: Het Achterhuis: Diary of a Young Girl
AUTHOR: Anne Frank
PUBLISHER: Pennyroyal Press with Jewish Heritage Publishing. Published by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, Inc
PLACE: North Hatfield, MA
YEAR: 1985
NUMBERED: 125 / 350
NO.OF PAGES: Ten plates signed in pencil by Goldyne loose as issued in quarter grey morocco over grey linen chemise.
BINDING: Gray morocco executed at the Harcourt Bindery, Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Samuel B Ellenport of Boston, with the title and authors name blind-stamped at the spine. This book comes accompanied with quarter grey morocco and linen matching chemise for the tissued plates, slipcased in a linen matching box of size 36.5 x 25 x 5.5 cm; text volume unpaginated (with ten plates), the chemise comes with ten loose etchings pencil signed.
SIZE [WITH SLIPCASE]:
Height: 36.5 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 5.5 cm
LIMITATIONS PAGE SIGNED BY JOSEPH GOLDYNE AND BARRY MOSER
Anne Frank's Diary, appearing first in Dutch as "HET ACHTERHUIS: DAGBOEKBRIEVEN 12 JUNI 1942-1 AUGUSTUS 1944" and later in English in 1952 as "The Diary of a Young Girl," is a work which continues to hold its place at the top of many literary lists.
The blank diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
About "The Diary of a Young Girl"
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary, Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
Otto, Anne's father and the only survivor among the Franks, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved by his secretary, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 60 languages. (Wikipedia)
This edition comprised a commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Anne Frank.
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