A W Wheen Trans (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Printing (US). 291pp.; HB pale beige w/black & red; heavy rub & soil w/stains; wear on edges & corners; library stamps, marks, & due-date card; half-title torn & detached (included); pg. 15/16 detached w/bttm.1/3 torn off (included); pg.279/280 detached(included); hinges cracked & loose; pages w/light stain & fox. A young man of nineteen fights for Germany in WWI. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4".

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Soft cover. Condition: Worn. Reprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. No Jacket. Reprint.

US FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, octavo, beige cloth boards, black & red lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, unpaginated prelims + 291pp, VG (moderate fading & soiling to boards, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, author's sm picture tipped in to ffep with pencil inscription above, light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters).

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Green boards with black logo to front and titles to spine. Slight bumping and edge wear. Inside, slight toning and foxing, mainly to text block edges, o/w clean and tight. 448pp.

1st ed. thus dust jacket Very Nice Copy small octavo 291pp., Facsimile of the 1929 edition. Neat ownership signature details o/w 'as new'.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). 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 sequelThe 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. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Thirteenth Impression, 3 months after the first edition (completing 80,000). 320 pp. Cream cloth binding with green lettering to front and spine. Top edge green. Marks and staining to the boards. Binding slanted; occasional smudges internally but generally clean internally. Early edition of an important book. 8vo.

Condition: VeryGood+ unmarked. Reprint. Clean tight copy of scarce edition. 5 x 7-1/2, 319 pp, top edge tinted. Hardcover in gray cloth boards w black titling, no jacket.

Hardcover. First American Edition (First Printing). pp. [1], 291. 8vo., measuring 8" x 5.5". Publisher's original gray woven cloth over boards with red-and-black lettering to the spine, and front board; maroon topstain, untrimmed page edges. Light edgewear to the cloth extremities, very faint sunning to the spine, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good and housed in a fine facsimile dustjacket. "First American Printing" stated on the limitation page, with a printing date of June, 1929. Originally serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung in November and December of 1928, it would be published in book form in January of 1929 as "Im Westen nichts Neues" ["Nothing New in the West"]. It would go on to sell more than 2.5 million copies in its first 18 months in print, and be translated to more than 22 languages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first US edition, first printing, of Erich Maria Remarque's lauded First World War novel. Published in the same year as the German language first edition, this is the first printing of the first US edition of this work, translated into English by A. W. Wheen.Remarque's novel is a powerful depiction of the devastating effects of war on individuals and society. The novel's legacy can be seen in its influence on subsequent works of war literature, its impact on public attitudes towards war, and its role in shaping the discourse around the nature of warfare and its human cost.It is a fictional account of the experiences of extreme mental and physical trauma experienced by a young German soldier named Paul Baumer and his comrades during World War I. The novel is considered a masterpiece of war literature and is often cited as one of the greatest anti-war novels of all time. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with light fading to back strip. Light handling marks to boards, with boards age toned. Tail of front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. grey cloth, black and red lettering, dust jacket unclipped, top edge red, 291 pp first US edition, owner's signature and bookstamp to front endpaper, dust jacket chipped top and bottom of spine and at corners Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful copy of the first U.K. edition, first impression, of Erich Maria Remarque's lauded First World War novel. Published in the same year as the German language first edition, this is the first impression of A. W. Wheen's English language translation, and the first U.K. edition of the work.Enclosed in a fine facsimile of the first issue dust wrapper.Remarque's novel is a powerful depiction of the devastating effects of war on individuals and society. The novel's legacy can be seen in its influence on subsequent works of war literature, its impact on public attitudes towards war, and its role in shaping the discourse around the nature of warfare and its human cost.It is a fictional account of the experiences of extreme mental and physical trauma experienced by a young German soldier named Paul Baumer and his comrades during World War I. The novel is considered a masterpiece of war literature and is often cited as one of the greatest anti-war novels of all time. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Light mark to rear board, with a touch of discolouration to back strip. With a fine facsimile dust wrapper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with binding a touch strained towards rear. Pages bright and generally clean, with light spotting to page perimeters. Very Good Indeed. book.