2 Anne Frank first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) to The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis) (1947) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Anne Frank title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Diary of a Young Girl — 1947 · Contact, AmsterdamDutch true first: Het Achterhuis, Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, published 25 June 1947 in an edition of 3,036 copies. The decisive point is the series statement "Proloog-reeks" on the half-title, present only in the first edition and dropped from the second onward. The first edition carries NO printing statement anywhere; the second through fifth editions print it on p. IV and the sixth on the title page, so any…. The Dutch Het Achterhuis (Contact, Amsterdam, 1947) is the true first of the work. The census note is corrected on English precedence: the Vallentine Mitchell London edition appeared 30 April 1952 and precedes the Doubleday New York edition of 12 June 1952 — they were not simultaneous. Both English editions use the same B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday translation and both are collected: London holds priority as the…. The reliable tell on the American side is the copyright-page "First Edition" statement: its absence means the copy is not the first Doubleday printing. Doubleday's club and later issues characteristically drop that statement and, per the publisher's general practice of the period, carry a blind-stamped device on the rear board with an unpriced jacket. On the Dutch side, any "druk" (printing) statement, or a….
The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis) — 1947 · Uitgeverij ContactAmsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, published 25 June 1947 in 3,036 copies, printed by Ellerman Harms N.V., Amsterdam. Title page: "Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven van 12 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944... met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor." Collation [2], X, 253 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, photographic plates of the hiding place, a plan of the Annex and diary facsimiles; format roughly 11…. Original-language (Dutch) precedence; the census claim is correct. Contact, Amsterdam, 1947 is the true first. Two 1952 English editions are separately collected and both should be named. UK: London, Vallentine Mitchell, published April 1952, which precedes and was quietly received. US: New York, Doubleday & Company, published 12 June 1952 in a first printing of 5,000 copies — translated from the Dutch by B. M.…. The Doubleday American edition was reprinted almost immediately — a second printing of 15,000 and a third of 45,000 followed the 5,000-copy first — so copies lacking the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page are common later printings, not the first. For the Dutch original, the "Proloog-reeks" half-title statement and the yellow jacket lettering are the discriminators against the second and later….

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