Urbanitzky, Grete von. Longing. Novellas and fairy tales. Leipzig, Xenien-Verlag, 1911. 118 p., 1 leaf. 20.5 x 13 cm. Original paper boards with gilt-stamped spine and cover title (small marginal tears, spine title faded). Rare first edition of the first publication of the Austrian writer, translator and journalist Grete von Urbanitzky (1891-1974). - Not bibliographically traceable for us, no proof via KVK. - Front endpaper with dedication by the author in her own hand: "To the most beautiful woman and the/ prince consort/ in memory of the author." - "Her novels were primarily concerned with the position of women and artists in society and the public sphere of the time, addressing female homosexuality as well as criticism of the existing bourgeois sexual morality. ... Despite her liberal views on sexuality and existing friendships with Jewish writers such as Felix Salten, Nelly Sachs and Gertrud Isolani, Grete von Urbanitzky's political views were deeply nationalistic; she lived in Berlin from 1933, showed solidarity with German nationalist writers, refused to condemn the book burning by the National Socialists at the PEN congress in Ragusa and, not least because of this, initiated the split in the Austrian P.E.N.Club, which she founded in 1923 and of which she was the first General Secretary." (Wikipedia). - Untrimmed. - Very good copy.