London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First English language edition. First impression, in the first state jacket with “German Opinions” on the front flap. Original beige cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in green, top edge green. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Slight foxing to edges and browning to endpapers. Extremities of dust jacket slightly worn with small tears, but a lovely example overall. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box.

Originally serialised in the Vossische Zeitung in late 1928 and published in German as Im Westen nichts Neues in January 1929. The first edition in English was published three months before the US edition. Remarque's elegy to the generation that had been "destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells" sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first eighteen months in print (Falls, p. 293). It was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1930, directed by Lewis Milestone. Cyril Falls, War Books: A Critical Guide, 1930. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #4488)

Price: $7,500