Softcover. 4to.  Black fabric-tape spine covering staple binding (as issued). One of 450 unsigned copies (500 total edition).  [37] leaves, of which 36 are illustrated, plus colophon printed on recto of rear cover. Covers soiled, with stain to rear cover, internally fine throughout. Includes a handwritten sheet from Frank Bidart noting three pages "omitted in 'Pay Dirt."

A parody of mid-century baby books, as written by Elmslie and drawn (and lettered) by Brainard - the first of the long-time couple's numerous collaborative books.

From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 19652016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.