The Diary of a Young Girl

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 jacket with the name in blue or orange rather than yellow, indicates a later Contact edition. No book-club issue of the 1947 Contact edition is documented.