23.2 x 18.3 cm. 12 pages. With 5 full-page original woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Illustrated original paperback with original dust jacket. - First edition. Kirchner's woodcuts for Döblin's novella "The Convent Maid and Death" represent his first series of illustrations. The novella is taken from the story "The Murder of a Buttercup." Extremely rare and an incunabulum of Expressionist literature. Printed on chamois-colored wove paper. A. R. Meyer produced batik-printed dust jackets for a few copies. Thus, this copy is in absolutely mint condition, free from any trace of age. - Dube H 199-203. - The Artist and the Book 141 with illustration. - Raabe 58/4 with illustration. - Schauer, Vol. II, 119-120 with illustration. - Jentsch 12 with illustration. - Lang 171 with illustration, page 19.