Erich Remarque All Quiet On The Western Front- First Printing 1929
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Erich Maria Remarque Im Westen nichts Neues Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1929 An early German printing of Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues, issued in the year of the novel’s first appearance and international impact. Published by Propyläen Verlag in Berlin in 1929, this copy belongs to the initial wave of printings that accompanied the book’s rapid ascent to global prominence. Emerging from the cultural and political atmosphere of late Weimar Germany, the work offered one of the earliest and most enduring literary reckonings with the experience of the First World War. Published in the year of its sensational debut, this early German edition of Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues captures the moment when the novel first reshaped public understanding of the First World War. Issued during the book’s immediate and unprecedented success, this copy—drawn from the 976–999 thousand printing—belongs to the earliest wave of editions that brought Remarque’s stark, unsentimental account of trench warfare to a global readership. Unlike later reprints, this is an authentic period printing from 1929, preserving the book's physical character and historical presence as it first circulated in Weimar Germany. As a historical object, the volume preserves not only the text itself but also the material context in which it first reached its audience—an artifact of a pivotal literary and cultural moment.
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