All Quiet on the Western Front - 1929

VERY GOOD — BOARDS: Very good condition. Small spot to lower right, front. BOOK: Very good condition. Nice topstain. Abrasions to FFEP from removed bookplate; pencil mark ghosts to LFEP. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Here on offer is a very nice copy of Erich Remarque's masterpiece, albeit controversial novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, a chronicling of the horrors and degradation of World War I as seen from the perspectvie of a German soldier. This copy is a true 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the book published by Little, Brown and Company in 1929. There is no dust jacket with this copy. ********************************************************* "Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . . This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive. 'The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.'—The New York Times Book Review" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic." He was able to use his literary success and fame, to relocate to Switzerland as refugee, and to the United States, where he became a Naturalized citizen. The above text was taken from, respectively, Random House (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.