EXTREMELY RARE memoir by Carl Sternheim (1878-1942), a German playwright and short story writer, widely renowned as one of the major exponents of German Expressionism, as well as one of the early supporters of Franz Kafka`s literary activity (Sternheim launched in 1908 the Expressionist literary journal `Hyperion` which published Kafka`s first eight prose works, and also presented him the prize money he received for the Fontane Prize in 1915 to the then largely unknown writer). 195x115mm. 222 pages. Softcover. Front cover detached. Rear cover coming loose. Cover and spine worn and somewhat stained. Cover edges/corners tattered. Front whitepage wrinkled. Spine edges tattered and peeled. Spine hinges worn. Text block edges and pages age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare memoir has sustained some external damage to cover, but is otherwise in good condition.