NMLP P-022630 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

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

Nelly Sachs · Aufbau-Verlag (Berlin) · 1947

No U.S. book-club (BCE/Reader's-type) edition of this German poetry volume exists, so the classic blind-stamp/clipped-jacket book-club tells do not apply. The real trap is dating and later reprints: scholarly consensus (German Wikipedia; the Frühe Texte der Holocaust-/Lagerliteratur catalog; the Literary Encyclopedia) fixes the first edition at 1947, yet some dealer/eBay listings tag the wrappered trade issue "1946" — treat a bare "1946" claim skeptically and verify against the "1.-20. Tausend" statement and the Rudi Stern drawings rather than a penciled date. Also distinguish the 1947 Aufbau first from the later Suhrkamp reissues (from 1961 onward) and its reappearance within collected editions such as "Fahrt ins Staublose" (Suhrkamp, 1961) and the multi-volume "Werke. Kommentierte Ausgabe" — none of which are the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-022630 for "In the Habitations of Death (In den Wohnungen des Todes)" by Nelly Sachs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022630, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).