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Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1947. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing, in the original Dutch language. Bound in publisher's original paper covered boards stamped in terracotta. Very Good or better with light lean to binding, toning and rubbing to covers, light wear to spine ends. Former owner name and date to preliminary blank, pages toned, hinge at title page exposed. The diary of Anne Frank, which was kept while in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. A coming of age tale charged by the triumph of the human spirit and it's strength in the face of adversity. It leaves the reader helpless--armed with an uneasy yearning to right this historical wrong, and pained by a deep sorrow in knowing that it is impossible to do so.

'The Diary of a Young Girl' documents Anne Frank's life in hiding during World War II, offering a poignant perspective on the challenges faced by Jews during the Holocaust.