REMARQUE (Erich Maria).
All Quiet on the Western Front.
A bright copy of the first English edition of Remarque’s evocative novel, told from the perspective of a German soldier during the First World War.
The loosely autobiographical novel, which was originally serialised in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitunghe in 1928, was an immediate bestseller and sold two and a half million copies in twenty two languages in its first eighteen months in print. In 1930 it was adapted into an Oscar award winning film and received high acclaim. However, at the German premier screening of the much anticipated movie, the Brown Shirts under the command of Goebles disrupted the film with mice and stink bombs, they made anti-semitic claims about the film calling it anti-war, and anti-German. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933 all of Remarque’s books were banned, and All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first to be burned.
With publishers’ advertising slip for All Quiet at the Western Front loosely inserted.
A very good copy, with some creasing to the front cover, and a little wear and creasing to extremities of the jacket, nicks and chips at corners and top and tail of spine panel. Cloth clean with a little age toning along the top edge. Slight offsetting to endpapers.
