{"product_id":"all-quiet-on-the-western-front-first-english-edition-seventh-impression","title":"All Quiet on the Western Front (First English Edition, Seventh Impression)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRetains the rare original dust jacket, unclipped and in beautiful condition!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREMARQUE, Erich Maria\u003c\/strong\u003e (trans. A. W. Wheen). \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front.\u003c\/em\u003e London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOctavo. 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. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in English \/ first UK edition, seventh impression.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eErich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) drew directly on his own experience as an eighteen-year-old German conscript on the Western Front to write \u003cem\u003eIm Westen Nichts Neues\u003c\/em\u003e, first serialised in the \u003cem\u003eVossische Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe 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.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e is universally regarded as the single most significant literary work to emerge from the First World War, and one of the most important anti-war novels in any language. Its stripped, unsentimental prose style and its refusal to grant the war any redemptive or heroic meaning shaped the whole subsequent tradition of war literature that followed it. The book's notoriety extended well beyond ordinary literary reception: it was among the books publicly burned by the Nazi regime in 1933, and Remarque himself was stripped of his German citizenship and forced into exile, first to Switzerland and later to the United States, for the remainder of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe original dark green paper dust jackets issued with this first UK edition are notoriously fragile and prone to fading and toning, making surviving examples in genuinely well-preserved condition — as with this copy — increasingly scarce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good in near fine dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dust jacket in wonderful condition, colour well preserved. Some mild rubbing and creasing along edges. A few minor markings to cloth boards. Volume has foxing along edges. Contents very good–near fine. Some toning to endpapers, and some scattered markings sporadically throughout. Otherwise, clean and bright throughout. Previous owners inscription to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000708\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erich Maria Remarque","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660846174451,"sku":"1110003011817","price":600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_df1a4308-895e-4397-a686-b622d6fceed5.png?v=1788151798","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-first-english-edition-seventh-impression","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}