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AUTHOR’S ADVANCE FEES! Herr Remarque, the author of “AU Quiet on the Western Front,” is, according to the Oeuvre, the Paris paper, to receive a “kolossal” price for his next book—as yet unwritten. Several of the biggest literary and newspaper agents have been bidding for it, and an American concern has obtained the world’s rights. For these it will pay Herr Remarque half a million dollars—more than £lOO,OOO. The book will be published first in the United States and afterward in the different countries of Europe.
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Southland Times, Issue 20979, 11 January 1930, Page 17
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89HALF A MILLION Southland Times, Issue 20979, 11 January 1930, Page 17
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