According to Kettner, "This is the first (and only) edition, limited to less than 100 copies. Cover a color xerox of a Chris Winkler painting tipped onto very heavy, gold card stock. Text illustrated throughout with Miskowski's "applananoids;" that is, animated figures with an appliance/electrical theme. Print on covers rubber-stamped. Tissue endpapers. A primo xerox publication." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. Light gray cover with matching text of heavy vellum offset stock. Mixture of art, visual poetry and prose poetry. An orgy of collage-like visions, whipped to a froth and served to the raging, cosmic furnace." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jake Berry desscribes this book as prose poems. The colored cover drawing of a scratched face is by Rich Curtis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is accompanied by letter pictures, fragmented test or illustrations by Hill placed on the outside margins of the pages. In this version, Jake Berry has added more illustrations to the margin. This revision was first published in 1987 and digitized by Miekal And in 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The line drawings, one each to the page of poems has surrealistic imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. From brief author's introduction 'In these writings and collages some "other," the "rawspirit," does the speaking. For that reason any attempt to understand this in a linear or logical context will be difficult or impossible. I see pandemonium as a break from the strictures of codified behavior into a liberated existence.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.