Fine condition oversized (folio, just over 12 inches tall) blue cloth boards with silver, gold and blind-stamped front cover illustrations, silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color drawings and one black-and-white drawing. ""Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emannuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."" - from the copyright page. ""This book is the curious brainchild of Frank Platt, a genial publishing consultant in New York City, who suggested to his friends Ivan Chermayeff and Kurt Vonnegut that they do a book together -- but with Chermayeff making the illustrations first, without saying what they meant, and with Vonnegut then making up a story to fit them. This is a song, then, whose music came first. Others may find it entertaining to put their own words to Chermayeff's tune."" - from the inner front jacket flap.