Kaleko, Mascha The lyrical shorthand notebook. Verses from everyday life. Cover drawing by Barlog. 1st-5th thousand. Berlin, Rowohlt, 1933. 80 pp. 8°. Illustrated OPbd. First edition of the first work, banned by the National Socialists in 1937. - Cf. Mascha Kaléko. Poet of the New Objectivity. At: https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/DE/Personen/kaleko-mascha.html (15/03/2015). - Rare in the intact original binding, currently untraceable for us in international trade and at auctions. - "After her expulsion from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in August 1935, Mascha Kaléko was banned from any further literary activity in Germany. In January 1937, her publisher Ernst Rowohlt was officially ordered to stop distributing her books and to recall any copies already in circulation." (Spine somewhat darkened, covers minimally stained, otherwise well preserved. First edition of the first book publication, banned by the Nazis in 1937. - Rare in a well preserved original cardboard binding, currently untraceable for us in international trade and at auctions. - 'After her expulsion from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in August 1935, Mascha Kaléko was banned from any further literary activity in Germany. In January 1937, her publisher Ernst Rowohlt was ordered by the authorities to stop distributing her books and to recall any copies already in circulation.' - Spine of cover with minor shelf-wear, boards minimally stained, otherwise well preserved indeed.