 Only 45 first-issue copies of the first edition remain in existence, consisting solely of those copies sold at the launch reading at Melville House in Brooklyn on November 4, 2009.Of the 250 copies printed, the remaining 205 were destroyed when the author pointed out that Kirsch's name was misspelled; the reprint of 205 new copies in the second issue correctly spells Kirsch's name.Ernest Hilbert has worked as an antiquarian and first edition bookseller at the firm Bauman Rare Books since 2003.