Inscribed by Burroughs on the front free endpaper, "To Edward Gilbert, with all good wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs." One of Burroughs' most bibliographically complex books, there has been disagreement over the years as to the priority of the 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. The frontispiece is in the second state, without the words "he said," but there is no wear to the type on the copyright-page, page 9 and page 195. According to Zeuschner, this is the second Macaulay printing. The facsimile dust jacket is that which he 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.