The last day. Numbers 1-86 in 92 issues. Approx. 22 x 13 cm. 74 black brooch with coloured lid plate (of which 1 is rebound; Back partly somewhat laded, light-edge, and bursted on the capitals as well as other minor cover defects), 4 illustrated Obroschuren, 13 OPappbände, 1 private cardboard tape. Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1913-1921. Göbel Sp. 573. Raabe, Zeitschriften 145. – Numerically complete episode of the famous "Bücherei" of Expressionism, mostly in copies of the second edition, but also in many cases in the first. "The most famous publishing company Wolffs and ... the most closed, representative collection of expressionist poetry" (Göbel). "'The youngest day' is said to be more than a book and less than a library: it is the order of creations of the youngest poets, produced by the common experience of our time" (publisher's announcement, cit. according to Smolen-Stammerjohann p. 18). The following first editions are mentioned, which differ from the typical version of the series (black original brochures with coloured cover plates): Ferdinand Hardekopf, Der Abend (Smolen 4.1.A), Georg Trakl, Poems (7/8.1.B.1), Ottokar Brezina, Hymnen (12.1.A.1) and Berthold Viertel, Die Spur (13.1.B. 1), Marcel Schwob, Der Kinderkreuzzug (16.1.A), Gottfried Kölwel, Gesänge gegen den den Death (17.1.A.1), Paul Kraft, Poems (18.1.A), Carl Sternheim, Napoleon (19.1.A) Carl Sternhem, Schuhlin (21.1.A.1), Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (22/23.1.B, i.e. not available here in the edition with the cover illustration of O. Starke), Carl Starheim, Meta (26.1.A.1.1), Albert Ehrenstein, Not there (27/28.1.A1), Franz Werfel, Sänge aus den drei Reichen (29/30.1.A.2.), Franz Kafka, The Judgment (34.1.A.1) and Gottfried Benn, Brains (35.1.A.1). Furthermore, the only edition of Adolf Knoblauchs Dada (73/74.1.A) with a woodcut by Leo Feininger is included. In total, the present mixed lot contains 16 duplicates. – Some copies have possession entries, dedications, stamps or mounted exlibris; occasionally uncut copies. Very few have slight stick spots or signs of wear. All in all, a well-preserved series.