Notes: First state of the 1st printing per Hall's James Branch Cabell: A Complete Bibliography. The first state can be identified by the frontispiece which is of a seated girl; It has green pictorial endpapers and the cover is lettered in gilt with the central design in gilt and white; The dedication is to M. L. P. B. Hall also notes a variant binding of this state, with white endpapers and white lettering on the cover and spine. Price from promotion by the publisher NY Times 1904-10-08 pBR673 "First printing exhausted on publication" (Note in same weekly publication 10-15 pBR690 states "published last week ... exhausted on publication day") -- "illustrated by Will Grefé ; decorated by Blanche Ostertag" -- endpapers and front material decorated, printed in green ink Copyright page states -- (c) 1904 The Curtis Publishing Company; (c) 1904 Doubleday, Page & Company; Published, October, 1904 -- "An abridged version of this story appeared serially in The Saturday Evening Post during the summer of 1904. The novel is here given in its entirety as originally conceived by the author." The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.