Interesting facts:

• The first edition was bound in mustard paper and had a blank spine and blank backside.
• It cost Crane $869 to have the 1100 copies made
• The price of the first edition was $.50
• The revised version in 1896 was advertised for $.75
• In the first edition, Crane frequently misspelled words. Some examples are missle vs missile, mode vs mood, grimey vs grimy, unskilfull vs unskillful, similiar vs similar