8vo. Original gray buckram lettered in black and red, top edge stained red; dust jacket (minor rubbing).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Following its initial publication in Germany, All Quiet on the Western Front was quickly translated and published throughout the English-speaking world. The book attracted harsh criticism in its native Germany, and in particular from the rising Nazi Party, who considered its pacifist themes an insult to the Germans who had fought and died in the First World War. When the 1930 Academy Award-winning adaptation by Russian-American director Lewis Milestone was released it was met with Nazi-organized protests which often resulted in mob attacks on both theatres and moviegoers. Upon the ascension of the Nazi Party into power Remarque's book was among the first to be declared a "degenerate" work and publicly burned. The book was additionally banned in Boston on the grounds of obscenity and U.S. Customs in Chicago seized several early printings on the same grounds (Karolides, et al., 100 Banned Books pp.3-7).