Notes: • Price from AbeBooks • "Of the first edition there have been bound in the draperies of a famous New York hotel and signed by the author two hundred and forty-five numbered copies for sale and sixty copies for private distribution"--Prelimimary leaf. • Fantastic incidences and an inside view of the lives of bus boys, waiters, dish washers, and the maitres d'hotel of that imaginary institution designed as the Hotel Splendide. - an abstract • OCLC is the source for above and contents and it also notes interior illustrations but not the artist; sourced from multiple AbeBooks listings