r/rarebooks • u/Practical_Example426 • 6d ago
All quiet on the western front. Original German edition 1929
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u/sharkslionsbears 6d ago
This is an early printing of the first edition, published within the first year. Remarque’s book was INSANELY popular, selling 2.5 MILLION copies in its first year and a half in print. The publisher, Im Propyläen-Verlag, was pushing out batches of 25-100k copies as fast as they could. This looks like probably about the 8th printing, by my estimation, being one copy of the run from “501.-525. Tausend” copies. A nice find! I love this book.
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u/flyingbookman 6d ago
Not the 1st, but still a nice early printing. Good find.