Erich Maria Remarque; A. W. Wheen [trans] — All Quiet on the Western Front

London, Putnam, 1929. Cloth. An early printing of Erich Maria Remarque's celebrated war novel. Twenty-fourth English impression of this bestselling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, translated to English by A. W. Wheen. An important and influential novel based on the experiences of the author on during World War I. Telling of a German soldier on the front, the novel is descriptive of the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma as well as the detachment from civilian life felt upon returning home. The book, first published in German in 1929, along with its sequel The Road Back, was among the books banned and burned by Nazi Germany. Adapted as an academy Award-winning film of the same name directed by Lewis Milestone in 1930; as a television film directed by Delbert Mann in 1979; and again into an award winning film of the same name in 2022.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine, boards lightly marked, back strip faded; spine gently cocked forward. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper dated '51. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .