The Book of Jade by [David Park Barnitz] First Edition, Limited. Doxey’s At the Sign of the Lark. This edition is limited to six hundred copies, of which this is No. Pictorial cloth, cover stamped red and yellow, spine lettered yellow. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Silk ribbon place marker. This is a collection of 59 poems in Two Parts with Prelude and Postlude. Dedicated To the Memory of Charles Baudelaire. The author’s only book. An American reaction to Puritanism inspired by the British Decadent movement closing the Victorian era. Very Good+: A firm square copy with rubbed corners and spine ends and a small tear to spine bottom. Two closed tears to first contents page. The author’s name is penciled in lightly above the title on the half-tile page, and below the title, in pen, written by Park Barnitz, Howard’98.
