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FRANK, ANNE.
Het Acht-
erhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni
1942-1 Augustus 1944 [“The House
Behind: Diary Entries.”]
Illustrated
with halftone frontispiece author portrait,
2 photographic reproductions of the inte-
rior of the house, 1 floor plan, and 2
facsimiles from Anne’s diary. Original
Dutch text. 8vo, original white and russet
paper boards, spine and edges toned as
usual, few dents to rear joint; inner paper
hinges at frontis and pp. 252-253 splitting
but sound, tiny inkstamp to corner of front
pastedown; preserved in
1
/
4
morocco
clamshell case.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, (1947)
[2,500/3,500]
THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF ANNE FRANK
’
S
DIARY
.
AN EXCELLENT SURVIVING EXAMPLE
OF A FRAGILE BOOK
.
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).
129
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FROST, ROBERT.
A Way Out: A One Act Play.
Printed in black and brown.
Small 12mo, gilt-stamped cloth backed boards; original glassine wrappers.
NUMBER
403
OF
485
COPIES SIGNED BY FROST
. APG 13a.
NewYork:The Harbor Press, 1929
[300/400]
130
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL.
Cien Años de Soledad.
8vo, rebound in
1
/
4
modern silver-stamped calf over silver boards; a little browning to preliminaries and
endleaves.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
. The novel that won him the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, (1967)
[600/900]
131
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
8vo,
publisher’s gilt-stamped green cloth,
dampspotting to corner of rear board and
portion of lower spine; first state dust
jacket (with the first paragraph on the
inside flap punctuated with an exclama-
tion point), price-clipped, horizontal
creasing to flaps, short closed tear, minimal
edgewear; dampstaining along lower edges.
NewYork: Harper & Row, (1970)
[800/1,200]
FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING
with no number
sequence in the back and states “First Edition”
on the copyright page; in the first state jacket.