Dehmel, Richard & Schindler, Paul Johannes [editor] — Dichtungen, Briefe, Dokumente

Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1963 1st edition. Cloth, G. 315pp, b/w tipped in frontis, cloth somewhat damp marked, text unaffected. The poems, letters & essays of Richard Dehmel [ 1863 - 1920 ] the German poet and writer, considered one of the foremost German poets of the pre-World War I era. His Weib und Welt triggered a scandal in the late 1890s, Dehmel was tried for obscenity and blasphemy, the court condemned the work as obscene and blasphemous and ordered that it be burned.