This is copy number 2. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small marks to the front cover. First edition. Quarto. [32] pages. Illustrated with a color pictorial title page by Larry Rivers reproducing Ned Rorem's "fair hand" score. Quarter orange cloth and pastepaper-covered boards. A fine, bright copy. Specially bound issue limited to 25 numbered copies specially bound and Signed by Ned Rorem and Larry Rivers. Prints "Remembering a Poet," Ned Rorem's two-page tribute to Paul Goodman, excerpts from Ned Rorem's journal, and "Near Closing Time," "Bawling Blues," and "Jail-Bait Blues," with lyrics by Paul Goodman and music by Ned Rorem.