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

The true first edition is the German-language "In den Wohnungen des Todes," Aufbau-Verlag, (East) Berlin, 1947 — Sachs's first published poetry collection. The first English-language book is "O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli," Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1967 (xxi + 387 pp.), a career-spanning bilingual selection with an introduction by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and translations by several hands (Michael Hamburger, Ruth and Matthew Mead, Michael Roloff, Christopher Holme, and others), issued right after her 1966 Nobel Prize; first printings are stated "First English Language Edition" and should retain the original unclipped dust jacket. There is no standalone English-only first edition of "In den Wohnungen des Todes"; English readers encounter it inside "O the Chimneys."