Remarque’s elegy to the generation that had been “destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells” sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first eighteen months in print (Falls, p. 293). It was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1930, directed by Lewis Milestone. Octavo. Original beige cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in green, top edge green. With dust jacket. Housed in a green morocco- backed book-form slipcase and chemise. A truly fine copy, exceptional. ¶ Cyril Falls, War Books: A Critical Guide , 1930. £7,500 [153354] 85 RICHARDSON, Dorothy M. Revolving Lights. London: Duckworth, 1923 Scarce signed copy, from the Pilgrimage series First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title and very scarce thus. Revolving Lights was the seventh instalment in Richardson’s 13-book Pilgrimage series, the first of which, Pointed Roofs , appeared in 1915. The author was a clear precursor to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and it was to describe her work that the phrase “stream of consciousness” was first applied in a literary context, by May Sinclair in The Egoist . Octavo. Original red cloth, titles white to spine and front. Neat ink ownership inscription of Anglo-Canadian author John Metcalf to front free endpaper. Slight sunning to spine, but an exceedingly sharp copy, effectively fine. £950 [153847]
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approved Scott Moncrieff’s translation, writing to him on 10 October 1922, after the release of Swann’s Way , to compliment his “fine talent”. Scott Moncrieff’s Proust “was the classic text which exerted an incalculable influence on readers and on literature in English in the 20th century. There are errors and omissions in the translation, but it is generally scrupulous, rendering Proust’s rhythms and images with remarkable flair. His English has acquired a not inappropriate period flavour; although some feel that his version prettifies Proust, he creates in language an attractive and witty narrator worthy of the original” ( ODNB ). 7 works in 11 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Remains of the dust jacket laid in at rear of Time Regained . Mild toning to some spines, some minor marks and rubbing, but on the whole an excellent set, very fresh, Time Regained with some foxing to endpapers only. £6,750 [139929] 84 REMARQUE, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929 The first edition in English, in a truly fine example of the first issue jacket First edition in English, first impression, in the first state jacket with “German Opinions” on the front flap, this example in exceptionally fine condition. Originally serialised in the Vossische Zeitung in late 1928 and published in German as Im Westen nichts Neues in January 1929. The first edition in English was published three months before the US edition.
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