copyright 1997; "Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on title page; The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut; with an intrduction by Harry Hansen and illustrations by John Groth; very good as-new condition with unmarked pages and includes the original Eastern Press flier for this collectors book; a beautiful book (see below).
From the original Easton Press flier:
"This Great Books of the 20th Century edition of All Quiet on the Western Front is a superbly printed and beautifully bound volume. The finest archival-quality paper has been radiantly gilded. The genuine leather cover is deeply inlaid with an appropriate design and the spine is elegantly titled in precious 22kt gold. The deluxe features include smyth-sewn pages, moire fabric endsheets and a satin ribbon page marker. This Easton Press edition of this 20th century classic is an essential and luxurious addition to your private library.
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Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I:
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review