Illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by Cummings over a yellow background, plus frontispiece (no drawing but yellow background, as issued). 12¼x9¼, original gray cloth, front cover stamped in silver, mylar cover. No. 158 of 491 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.

Signed by Cummings in the colophon. Cleverly titled without a title, but text begins: "An Imaginary Dialogue between ALMOST Any Publisher And A certain Author, A.D. 1930." Half-title before chapter one reads: "The Garden of Eden...before the dawn of history...". Small paper label from the Lilly Library at Indiana University, on the rear pastedown. Firmage A9.