30. The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories

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  1. *The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1907.
    ?4 1-108. Pp. [8] 1 2-160.
    Contents: [1-2] blank; [3] half-title: THE PASSING OF THE / THIRD FLOOR BACK; [4] Popular 3s. 6d. Books. [… list of 6 titles, beginning with The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Idle Ideas in 1905]; [5] title-page; [6] lower right, logo of the Chapel River Press, Kingston, Surrey; [7] CONTENTS.; [8] blank; 1 2-40 The Passing of the Third Floor Back; 41-72 The Philosopher’s Joke; 73-102 The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or the Miser of Zandam; 103-28 Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies; 129-45 The Cost of Kindness; 146 blank; 147-60 The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl
    Printed on wove paper, size 187 x 120mm., fore-edge and bottom edge uncut.
    Inserted after the last gathering are 4 pages of Hurst and Blackett advertisements.
    *Green cloth , lettered in light green on front and spine; spine: THE PASSING / OF THE / THIRD FLOOR / BACK / JEROME / HURST & BLACKETT
    Listed in English Catalogue, May 1907, 2/6; reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, 24 May 1907, 166.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (9).
  2. *The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1909.

    ?4 1-516. Pp. [8] 1 2-160.
    Contents: as Hurst & Blackett 1907 edition, but the type has been reset.
    Printed on wove paper, size 182 x 119mm.
    Inserted after the last gathering are 4 pages of Hurst and Blackett advertisements.
    *Red cloth, lettered in black on front and spine; spine: THE PASSING / OF THE / THIRD FLOOR / ·BACK· / JEROME / K. / JEROME / 1/- NET / HURST & / BLACKETT
    Listed in English Catalogue, July 1909, 1/-.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (5, including reprints).
    The 1909 edition was reprinted without date on the title-page and omitting the price on the cover; also including advertisements for the play and the separately published single story The Passing of the Third Floor Back, both published in 1910.
    Copies seen: APR (5)

  3. The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories. Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company, Limited.
    ?4 1-516. Pp. [8] 1 2-160.
    Contents: [1-2] blank; [3] half-title: THE PASSING OF THE / THIRD FLOOR BACK; [4] blank; [5] title-page; [6] Printed in Great Britain’; lower right, logo of the Chapel River Press, Kingston, Surrey; [7] CONTENTS.; [8] blank; 1 2-160 text.
    Uses sheets of the Hurst & Blackett 1909 edition, except for changes in preliminaries.
    Printed on wove paper, size 180 x 117mm., fore-edge uncut.
    Red cloth, lettered in black as in the Hurst & Blackett 1909 edition except for omission of the price on front and spine and substitution of the Canadian publisher’s name at foot of spine: THE COPP, CLARK / COMPANY LIMITED
    Copies seen: FR.
  4. *The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories. London, Hurst & Blackett, [1927].

    ?4 1-148 154. Pp. [8] 1 2-232.
    Contents: [1-2] blank; [3] half-title: THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK; [4] By the same / author / “Three Men in a Boat,” / “Paul Kelver,” / etc. etc.; [5] title-page; [6] blank; [7] CONTENTS. / [short rule] / [8] blank; 1 2-232 text.
    The text to page 160 uses the plates of the Hurst & Blackett 1909 edition, after which are three additional stories: 161-84 His Time Over Again; 185-209 The House of the Two Cedars; 210-32 House Hunting
    Printed on wove paper, size 187 x 120mm.
    *Green cloth, lettered in red on front and spine; spine: [rule] / THE / PASSING / OF THE / THIRD / FLOOR / BACK / JEROME K. / JEROME / HURST & / BLACKETT / [rule]
    Copies seen: APR (1927; 1929 (2) undated, no catalogue (5); FR (1929).

  5. The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907.
    18 2-158 164. Pp. 1-9 10-246 247-48. Stapled.
    Contents: 1 half-title: COLLECTION / OF / BRITISH AUTHORS / TAUCHNITZ EDITION. / VOL. 3973. / THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK. / BY / JEROME K. JEROME. / IN ONE VOLUME. ; 2 list of other Jerome titles in Tauchnitz editions; 3 title-page; 4 blank; 5 CONTENTS; 6 blank; 7 half-title; 8 blank; 9 10-246 text (each story has a half-title); 247 [rule] / PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER. / [rule]; 248 blank.
    Printed on wove paper, size 152 x 111mm.
    Buff paper cover, lettered in black.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (3).
  6. *Passing of the Third Floor Back. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908.

    Unsigned, 1-128. Pp. i-iv v-vi 1 2-186.
    Contents: i half-title: PASSING OF THE / THIRD FLOOR BACK; ii blank; iii title-page; iv COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY / JEROME K. JEROME / COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY / DODD, MEAD & COMPANY / Published, September, 1908; v CONTENTS; vi blank; 1-186 text
    *Dark green cloth, lettered in white on front and spine; spine: [three blind-stamped rules] / PASSING OF / THE THIRD / FLOOR BACK / JEROME / [three blind-stamped rules] / DODD, MEAD / & COMPANY
    Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1920, 14 November 1908; American Catalog, 1908-10, $1.00.
    Copies seen: FR; APR (1909).

  7. Passing of the Third Floor Back. Toronto, Wm. Briggs, 1908.
    Identical in every respect with the Dodd, Mead edition, above, except for substitution of the Canadian publisher’s name on the title-page and, at foot of spine: BRIGGS
    Copies seen: FR; APR.
  8. Passing of the Third Floor Back. New York, Grosset & Dunlap.
    Unsigned, 1-208. Pp. [6] 1 2-186 [2] 7-123 124 [8].
    Contents: [1] half-title: PASSING OF THE / THIRD FLOOR BACK; [2] blank; [3] title-page; [4] COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY / JEROME K. JEROME / COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY / DODD, MEAD & COMPANY / Published, September, 1908; [5] CONTENTS; [6] blank; 1 2-186 PASSING OF THE THIRD / FLOOR BACK; [1] half-title [gothic type face] Tea Table Talk / By / Jerome K. Jerome; [2] Copyright, 1902, / By JEROME K. JEROME. / Copyright, 1903, / By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY. / [short rule] / Published, October, 1903.; 7-123 TEA-TABLE TALK / [short rule]; 124 blank; [1-2] list of other Grosset & Dunlap publications.
    Text printed from the plates of the Dodd, Mead editions.
    Printed on wove paper, size 188 x 128mm. Frontispiece, on plate paper, inserted facing title-page and plates facing Passing page 120 and Tea-Table Talk pages 8, 64.
    Grey-green cloth, lettered in red on front and spine; spine [three dark green rules] / PASSING OF / THE THIRD / FLOOR BACK / JEROME / [three dark green rules] / GROSSET / & DUNLAP
    Copies seen: FR; APR (2); University of California, Berkeley, Library, University of Miami Library (advertisements differ).
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