The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger first english edition 1929

JUNGER, Ernst. The Storm of Steel. From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front. Translated by Basil Creighton. With an introduction by R. H. Mottram. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.
 
First English edition, first impression. Octavo. xv, 319, [1] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, in the scarce original dust wrapper priced 7s. 6d. net.
 
Book very good, with some fading to the spine corresponding with loss to the wrapper, foxing to the page edges and scattered foxing internally, principally to the preliminary leaves. Binding firm.
Dust wrapper good only but substantially complete. Spine toned, with a chip at the head and lesser chipping at the foot and extremities; a long vertical split to the spine has been repaired on the reverse with archival tissue. General age-toning and handling marks. Both panels and both flaps remain present and the original price is intact.
 
The first English edition of one of the defining literary accounts of the First World War. Junger based the book on the diaries he kept while serving on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, during which he was repeatedly wounded and was awarded the Pour le Merite. First published in Germany in 1920 as In Stahlgewittern, the work established Junger's reputation and occupies a markedly different position from much British First World War writing: rather than presenting combat simply as waste or disillusionment, it records the intensity, violence and exhilaration of front-line warfare with an often disturbing immediacy.