Musson, Toronto, 1909, believe 1^st Canadian Edition.  Hard cover, 309 pages.  Red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine; front board blind ruled, white stamped oval frame encasing black and white paste-on illustration.  Corners and spine ends worn with a bit of fraying; some spots on boards and colour bleaching on rear board from water damage.  Front hinge cracked, front end paper removed, some paper residue on half-title page and rear paste-down.  Prior owner’s info inked on verso of frontispiece; foxing throughout, a few short lower margin tears, two short worm holes at bottom edge.  Binding cracked in various spots with two illustrations loose; all other pages secure and all pages and illustrations present; some colour bleeding in margins of last few pages.   Illustrations by Spenser Pryse.  Macabre novel of Alexandra, a celebrated yet mysterious dancer in London.  One evening she is performing the dance of Salome, not with a prop head but that of her murdered husband.