5 A.M. IN BEIJING: Poems of China

New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1987. First Edition. First printing. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 115 pages. Inscribed on the first free end page by the poet Willis Barnstone to a Jonathan Spence noted professor of Chinese History at Yale University. Near fine in a spine-sunned else near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in Hardcover. Barnstone is a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana Univ. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection.