[4], 23, [1] leaves. (Oblong) 6¼x9½, Japanese stab binding with exposed sewing, pictorial wrappers. Limited to 400 copies. Designed and Printed by Steven Chayt at the Kenmore Press. Cover silk-screened from an original photograph by Judy Lane. Bound by Steven and Meryle Chat. First Edition.

Billy Collins' scarce first book. Collins said of this book: "Pokerface, was a livre de luxe put together by a husband and wife who ran a hand letterpress out of their home in Los Angeles. I remember dropping in on them one morning to find the two of them busy at their labor of love. The husband was cranking out individual pages of my little book on an enormous, Dickensian-looking press while his wife sat on the floor, hippie-style, hand-stitching the covers on with a needle and thick black thread." The book is inscribed by Collins on the title page: "To Eric-- hold on to this. It might be worth something in 500 years, Billy 1997".