 Published only in hardcover, the book has since become a collectors' item and sells for up to $2500 a copy.In 1980 Gaines met Robert Jon Cohen, a 21-year-old Studio 54 bartender, with whom he collaborated on a book called "The Club", a thinly-veiled "roman a clef" about Studio 54.The book a raised the ire of nightclub owner Steve Rubell, designer Halston, and singer Liza Minnelli, among others.