NMLP P-022624 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

In the Habitations of Death (In den Wohnungen des Todes)

Nelly Sachs · Aufbau-Verlag (Berlin) · 1947

The true first is the Aufbau-Verlag (East Berlin) issue of 1947, Sachs's first published poetry collection: 75 pp., small octavo (roughly 19 x 13 cm), with full-page drawings by Rudi Stern (dealer copies collate 11 illustrations) and the dedication "Meinen toten Brüdern und Schwestern" ("to my dead brothers and sisters")

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-022624 for "In the Habitations of Death (In den Wohnungen des Todes)" by Nelly Sachs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022624, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).