Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

No book-club issue documented for 1904. The principal traps are later fine-press and reprint editions, not book clubs: the Limited Editions Club issue printed in Tokyo by The Shimbi Shoin, 1932, in Japanese brocade boards with a silk wrap-case, limited to 1500 copies signed by illustrator Yasumasa Fujita with an introduction by Oscar Lewis, is frequently mistaken for an early edition; a German translation was issued by Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1909, illustrated by Emil Orlik. Neither is a first.