1227 - Remarque, E.M. (i.e., E.P. Remark).

Remarque, E.M. (i.e., E.P. Remark). All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated from the German by Alzir Hella and Olivier Bournac. New edition. Paris, Librairie Stock (Delamain and Boutelleau) 1929. 8°. 303, (1) pp. Black calfskin binding circa 1940 with spine title in silver, white, and red; figurative leather inlays on the front cover in gray, black, and gold (German soldiers wearing spiked helmets in a trench), edging with blind-stamped and white-stamped frames and silver-edged pages in a lined cardboard slipcase (original cover bound in). First French edition, published in the year of the first edition. One of 1,550 numbered copies on “Papier pur Fil de Corvol” (total print run of 1,660 copies). — An exceptionally beautiful copy in a harmonious artist’s binding featuring the “trench” motif.