[Berkeley]: Rebis Press, 1975. From a total edition of 326, of which 26 copies were signed and lettered. 32pp; alternating French-fold and single-sheet leaves; b&w illus. Side-sewn with eyelets and knots in thick canvas wraps, 8-1/4 x 9-3/4 in. Some fraying to bottom fore-corners, else fine. Though from the regular edition, this copy signed, inscribed, and dated in year of publication to title page: "To Alta - Johanna Drucker 7/4/75."
The second publication by American book artist Johanna Drucker (b. 1952), preceded only by her 1972 student project, Dark, The Bat Elf Banquets the Pupae. A hand-set and letterpress-printed prose text accompanied with drawings also by Drucker, who summarizes the work thus on her website: "The nautical motif in images and binding combine with the stippled ink drawings to produce an effect that suggests a children's book, at first glance. The text is dense, rhymed, complex, almost unreadable in any straightforward sense. Thick with double entendres, allusions, puns, it is the story of a failed New Year's party I attended with my parents in what must have been the winter 1974-75."
