Remarque (Erich Maria) All Quiet on the Western Front, ink ownership name and bookseller ticket to front pastedown, first issue dust-jacket priced at 7s. 6d. and with the "German Opinions" to the front flap,1929; The Road Back, faint browning strips to endpapers, 1931, first English editions, original cloth, toning and spotting to edges, dust-jackets, paper and tissue repairs to spine ends at verso, extremities fractionally creased, 8vo (2)

⁂ An excellent set of the most important war novels of the 20th century. Originally serialised in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung, Remarque's duology describes the enormous physical and mental stresses of WW1 and its aftermath. Both novels were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany for being anti-German. The book was also scrutinised in Britain, where it appeared in censored form with passages excised or softened that might be read as critical of the military. An unexpurgated edition was published that same year in America.