"There once was a girl
named Nicole Pennsylvania Snow
who, when she was ten months old,
slept in an abstract bed
designed and decorated for her by a famous artist."

So begins The Girl in the Abstract Bed by Vance Bourjaily and Tobias Schneebaum. It ends when "Reactionary Grandmother" drags Nicole away from the Danish tableware, Mother Proust stories, and Lait au lait and into the sunshine, where "DADA" and "jane" learn that "our baby is primitive, after all."

The Tiber Press published the book in 1954 in an edition of 1500 copies. The drawings are actually silk-screened. Last year illustrator Stephen Kroninger shared scans of the book on his amazing Drawger blog, and since then I've been watching the price creep out of my reach. The world needs a reprint!