306, [8] pp. Orange cloth, blue titles, blue and maroon decorations. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Francis P. Wightman. A novel set in Chicago, by the Scottish-Canadian author, journalist, and editor who co-founded The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. Barr is possibly most notable for writing the first Sherlock Holmes parody, Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs. He also completed Stephen Crane's unfinished novel The O'Ruddy.
