One of Burroughs' most bibliographically complex books, there has been disagreement over the years as to the priority of the printing, binding cloth and other points. The present copy is in the now-agreed upon first binding, rough-textured red cloth with green lettering, rather than the pebbled cloth which Heins thought came first. According to Currey, this copy is in the first printing state, with the frontispiece showing the words "he said"; also, there is no wear to the type on the copyright-page, page 9 and page 195. The dust jacket is that which Zeuschner calls for on the first printing, with the spine imprint a "modified octagon." The story is an unusual one for Burroughs, in which a cocaine-addicted starlet finds the strength to quit. Heins X4.2; Zeuschner 165; Currey, p. 88.