43. My Life and Times

A4 B-U8. Pp. [2] i-iv v-vi 1 2-302 303-4.
Contents: [2] blank; i half-title: MY LIFE AND TIMES; ii blank; iii title-page; iv PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY / RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, / BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.; v CONTENTS; vi blank; 1 2-302 text; 303-4 blank.
Printed on laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 222 x 146mm. Coloured frontispiece (from the de László portrait) after A.2.
Blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine: [rule] MY / LIFE / AND / TIMES / · / JEROME K. / JEROME / HODDER & / STOUGHTON / [rule]
Listed in English Catalogue, September 1926, 16/- ; reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, 23 September 1926, 625.
Copies seen: APR (6); Bodleian Library – Arch. H e.157, Jerome’s copy, with title-page dedication: ‘To my dear Wife / with 50 years love / Jerome K. Jerome / Sept ’26; British Library, accession date 26 September 1926; Library of Congress.

Unsigned, 1-198 20-224. Pp. [8] 1-318 319-20.
Contents: [1] half-title: MY LIFE AND TIMES; [2] blank; [3] title-page; [4] MY LIFE AND TIMES / COPYRIGHT 1926, BY JEROME K. JEROME / PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / FIRST EDITION / H-A; [5] CONTENTS; [6] blank; [7] half-title: MY LIFE AND TIMES; [8] blank; 1-318 text; 319-20 blank.
Printed on laid paper, chain lines vertical, size 237 x 159mm. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut.
Frontispiece (photo portrait) inserted between 1.1 and 1.2.
Dark blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine: [double rule, the lower heavy] MY LIFE / AND / TIMES / [small circle] / JEROME K. JEROME / [three small circles, arranged as cloverleaf] / [rule] / HARPERS
Listed in Publisher’s Weekly 110 no. 16, 16 October 1926; United States Catalog, 1928, $4.00; reviewed in New York Times Book Review, 26 December 1926, 8.
Copies seen: FR; APR; Library of Congress, accession date 28 September 1926; Bodleian Library –Arch. H d.49, morocco bound presentation copy, with collation 1-208 214; University of Miami Library; Portland State University Library.