All Quiet on the Western Front (First English Edition, Seventh Impression)

A$600 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

Retains the rare original dust jacket, unclipped and in beautiful condition! REMARQUE, Erich Maria (trans. A. W. Wheen). All Quiet on the Western Front. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth boards, titled in dark green to front cover and spine. Original dark green paper dust jacket, unclipped. Top edge tinted green to match jacket. 320 pp. First edition in English / first UK edition, seventh impression. Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) drew directly on his own experience as an eighteen-year-old German conscript on the Western Front to write Im Westen Nichts Neues , first serialised in the Vossische Zeitung in late 1928 before its German book publication in January 1929. This English translation by A. W. Wheen, published by Putnam in London in March 1929 (preceding the American first edition by three months) brought Remarque's unflinching, deliberately unglamorous account of trench warfare to an English-speaking readership within weeks of the German original. The response was immediate and overwhelming: it sold some 2.5 million copies in twenty-two languages within its first eighteen months in print. A contemporary Putnam publisher's advertisement for the title, cited in the trade, called it plainly "the greatest of all war novels... the simplest, the starkest, and the most beautiful war book that has yet been written... the war memorial of all the 'unknown soldiers.'" All Quiet on the Western Front is universally regarded as the single most signif

• Binding: Hardcover

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