"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"--Preliminary leaf.
Color illustrations on lining-papers.
Contents
1. The animal waiter -- 2. Art at the Hotel Splendide -- 3. The lost mandolin -- 4. Easy money -- 5. Kalakobé -- 6. A night in Granada -- 7. The Hispano -- 8. The homesick bus boy -- 9. The new suit -- 10. The ballet visits the magician -- 11. The magician does a new trick -- 12. The dreams of the magician -- 13. My valet Lustgarten -- 14. The banquet -- 15. The murderer of the Splendide.
Summary
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.
