“[Anne Frank] became the most memorable figure to emerge from World War II--besides Hitler, of course, who also proclaimed his life and his beliefs in a book. In a way, the Holocaust began with one book and ended with another. Yet it was Anne's that finally prevailed--a beneficent and complicated work outlasting a simple and evil one.”

 -Roger Rosenblatt.

FRANK, Anne. Het Achterhuis [The Secret Annex; Diary of a Young Girl]. Amsterdam: Contact, 1947. Octavo, original paper boards.  $12,000.

Scarce first edition of one of the central documents of the twentieth century. One of only 1500 copies printed. Because of its fragile format and immediate popularity, very few copies of the first edition have survived. There are no copies in OCLC, and no copies at such major institutions as the rare book division of the New York Public Library, the Yale library, the Morgan Library, the Huntington Library, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The only copy we were able to locate is in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Without the extremely scarce dust jacket (the copy in the Anne Frank House has only a later edition dust jacket). Dampstaining to spine extending into edges of boards, hinges tender. A rare first edition of one of the world's most beloved and influential books.