remarque erich maria 1898 1970 a w (2 résultats)

American first edition, first printing (with requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). [6], 291 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13.5cm. No dust jacket present (i.e. lacking). Gray woven cloth with red and black lettering to spine and front board; strong toning to spine with lesser toning to boards; small surface abrasion to lower spine. Maroon top edge with a few early leaves slightly nicked at near the fore-edge; text block's toned fore-edge has a few small stains. Endpapers toned; ink ownership inscription on front pastedown; small stains to lower fore-edge margin of ffep and half-title; a few stains and foxing to interior leaves; fore-edge margin closed tears to pages 23-26. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy. Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel set in the brutal combat of World War I. Translated to English by Arthur W. Wheen from the original German edition "Im Westen Nichts Neues." The novel was serialized during November and December 1928 in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" and was first issued in book form in late January 1929 by Berlin publisher Im Propylaen-Verlag with translations to twenty-five languages available by 1931. A Hollywood cinematic adaptation of the novel was released by Universal Pictures in 1930 and received four Academy Award nominations of which it won two Oscars for Best Picture and for Best Director (Lewis Milestone). {LitShelf#4}.

Hardcover. First American Edition (First Printing). pp. [1], 291. 8vo., measuring 8" x 5.5". Publisher's original gray woven cloth over boards with red-and-black lettering to the spine, and front board; maroon topstain, untrimmed page edges. Light edgewear to the cloth extremities, very faint sunning to the spine, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good and housed in a fine facsimile dustjacket. "First American Printing" stated on the limitation page, with a printing date of June, 1929. Originally serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung in November and December of 1928, it would be published in book form in January of 1929 as "Im Westen nichts Neues" ["Nothing New in the West"]. It would go on to sell more than 2.5 million copies in its first 18 months in print, and be translated to more than 22 languages.