remarque erich maria wheen arthur (19 résultats)

Etat : New.

Etat : New. pp. 304 1st Vallantine Books Edition Translated From the German.

Etat : New. pp. 304.

Paperback. Etat : New. 1/27/1998.

Paperback. Etat : New. 9/29/1996.

Paperback. Etat : New. 1/27/1998.

Etat : New. pp. 320.

Etat : New. pp. 240.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : New. pp. 320.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : New. Reissue. Special order item direct from the distributor.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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. Etat : Good. Special Edition for THE BOOK CLUB. London. Nd circa 1937 hardback no jacket, black titles to red spine and cream boards, 448 pages. Minor discolouring to boards, tan spots to extreme page edges and eps but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

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.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in Germany in 1929 as 'Im Westen Nichts Neues' and in the UK in March 1929, this is a first UK edition, fifteenth impression, completing 113,000 copies, of June 1929. A massive tribute to the book's popularity. Top of page block dyed green as issued. Some edge wear, chipping and loss to top of largely green jacket and spine, some slight edge wear and rubbing to bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, slight lean, some slight creasing and yellowing to back jacket and inside flaps, some slight yellowing and spotting to page block. Not price clipped (7s 6d), no inscriptions, contemporary advert advertising the work of translator A. W. Wheen tipped in, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 319pp. Possibly the most famous anti war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches. Erich Maria Remarque (b. Erich Paul Remark 1898-1970), was a German novelist. His landmark novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front' about the German military experience of World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre, and was subsequently adapted into a film of the same name in 1930 directed by Lewis Milestone. It was subsequently adapted for television in 1979, starring Ernest Borgnine. During WWI, Remarque was conscripted into the German Imperial Army at the age of 18. In 1917, he was transferred to the Western Front, 2nd Company, Reserves, Field Depot of the 2nd Guards Reserve Division at Hem-Lenglet. On 26th June 1917 he was posted to the 15th Reserve Infantry Regiment and fought in the trenches between Torhout and Houthulst. On 31st July 1917 he was wounded by shell shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck, and after being medically evacuated from the field was repatriated to an army hospital in Germany where he spent the rest of the war recovering from his wounds, before being demobilized from the army. On 10th May 1933, at the initiative of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Remarque's writing was publicly declared as 'unpatriotic' and was banned in Germany. Copies were removed from all libraries and restricted from being sold or published anywhere in the country. Germany was rapidly descending into a totalitarian society, leading to mass arrests of elements of the population of which the new governing order disapproved and Remarque fled Germany to live at his villa in Switzerland. Remarque's French background as well as his Catholic faith were also publicly attacked by the Nazis. They continued to decry his writings in his absence, proclaiming that anyone who would change the spelling of his name from the German 'Remark' to the French 'Remarque' could not be a true German. The Nazis further made the false claim that Remarque had not seen active service during World War I. In 1938, Remarque's German citizenship was revoked. In 1939, he and his ex-wife were remarried to prevent her repatriation to Germany. Just before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, they left Porto Ronco, Switzerland for the United States. They became naturalised citizens of the United States in 1947. Arthur Wesley Wheen MM & Two Bars (1897-1971), was an Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian, best known for translating Remarque's work. An exceptionally scarce book in this early impression.