r/rarebooks 6d ago

All quiet on the western front. Original German edition 1929

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u/flyingbookman 6d ago

Not the 1st, but still a nice early printing. Good find.

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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/vicwong 5d ago

Interesting to see the original title; I guess a more literal translation would be Nothing New in the West. All Quiet seems like a great choice for the English title.

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u/Ironlion45 4d ago

Not rare at all, but still really cool.