Pretty much everyone is familiar with Andy Warhol’s silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe, but what many don’t know is that the famed pop artist once worked on a children’s book about a Mexican jumping bean. For whatever reason the book was never finished, but it will be on display starting Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum as part of Warhol by the Book, the first U.S. retrospective devoted to Warhol’s fascination with publishing and career as a book artist. The exhibit, organized in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, will be at the Morgan through May 15, 2016.

Books were an important part of Warhol’s practice for close to 40 years. After majoring in pictorial design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Warhol made a name for himself as a graphic artist working in advertising, fashion illustration, and publishing. He designed dozens and dozens of book jackets and continually went back to the medium even after his art career took off. He found that he could be wildly experimental with the form, and designed, published and collected books.

Warhol by the Book is a traveling exhibit that began its journey at Williams College Museum of Art last year. What comes to the Morgan, however, is pared down version of the original exhibit. The show that opens Friday features over 130 objects dating back to Warhol’s school days in the 1940s. In the mix are drawings, screen prints, photographs, self-published books, children’s books, photography books, text-based books, unique books, archival material, and his dust jacket designs. Specific highlights include a copy of his rarely-seen Love is a Pink Cafe, a recently discovered maquette for a book made from his Marilyn Monroe prints, which unfolds to a length of almost 30 feet, preliminary mock-ups of Andy Warhol’s Index, and A: A Novel (1968), which used a cassette recorder to document a day in the life of one of Warhol’s sixties superstars Ondine.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Morgan will be hosting lectures, gallery talks, a screening of Chuck Workman’s Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol, and a poetry reading by Ron Padgett. For more information, visit the museum’s website. Warhol by the Book is on view at the Morgan from February 5-May 15.

Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), New York: Random House; A Black Star book, 1967. Photo by Graham S. Haber