The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis)

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. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. The Doubleday first American edition states "First Edition" on the copyright page, is 285 pp., has a red spine lettered in black and the top edge of the text block dyed red (the dye is often faded), and the first-issue jacket is priced at the flap, carries the code "A.F;T.O.D.A.Y.G." at the top of the front panel, and has no code on the rear panel or rear flap. Separately, do not treat the 1995 "Definitive Edition" or the 2001 "Critical Edition" as firsts — both restore passages absent from the 1947 text and are new texts, i.e. classic "first thus" traps.