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Remarque, Erich Maria -- All Quiet on the Western Front [Book]
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London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1929. First Edition. 319pp. Hardcover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: VERY GOOD. Oatmeal cloth lettered in green at the spine and front board, with the publisher's original green top edge stain, which has some color loss. Spine lightly tanned and the top edge a little spotted. The free endpapers and half-title are lightly browned, as are some of the leaf margins. A very good copy in the most uncommon first issue dust wrapper, non-price-clipped (7s. 6d. net) but chipped, with some loss at the spine ends, corner tips and top edge.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as "the greatest war novel of all time".
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back (1931), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.