131 pp. Title page vignette. 18x13 cm (7x5") original black cloth pictorially decorated in red and yellow, silk ribbon bookmark. No. 433 of 600 copies.
No author listed in the volume, as Barnitz insisted on remaining anonymous. The young Harvard grad killed himself shortly after publication. Considered a masterpiece of decadent and nihilistic verse in a similar vein as Baudelaire, to whom the book is dedicated. Scarce.
