28. American Wives and Others

Unsigned, 1-238 244. Pp. [4] i-vi vii-viii 1-3 4-364.
Contents: [1-4] blank; i half-title: AMERICAN WIVES AND OTHERS; ii –iii blank; iv frontispiece; v title-page; v Copyright, 1904, / BY CENTRAL NEWS AND PRESS EXCHANGE / Copyright, 1904, / BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY. / [short rule] / Published in October, 1904’; vii-viii CONTENTS; 1-3 4-364 text.
Each of the 25 essays in the collection has a half-title, included in the pagination; 20 of them are also in Idle Ideas in 1905, but with different titles, the remaining 5 are in The Angel and the Author – and Others, without titles.
Printed on stout wove paper, size 183 x 127mm.
*Buff cloth with pictorial front, lettered in white on front and spine; spine: AMERICAN / WIVES and / OTHERS / JEROME / K. / JEROME / [ring or hoop outlined in black] / STOKES
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 1712, 19 November 1904; United States Catalog, 1902-5, $1.50; reviewed in New York Times, 19 November 1904, 786-77.
Copies seen: FR; APR (3); University of California, Berkeley, Library.