Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump

Overview:

  • Title: Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump
  • Author: Reginald Bliss
  • Year: 1915
  • Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: 342
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump
  • Notes:
    • 1st edition
    • Publication date from listing as "Illustrated. 6s." by the publisher, The Spectator 1915-04-24 p562, this one annotated "[May 3."
    • Price from the review "A Questionable Boon", The Academy #2246 (1915-05-22) p330.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front/back covers: -- front cover minimal gold line illustration on dark cloth, no lettering (that on the spine evidently) -- title page (first four components):   Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump   Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times   Prepared for publication by Reginald Bliss [Author of ...]   With an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells -- half-title page shows first component only -- copyright page: "First published in 1915" -- Introduction, p5-6, closes "H. G. WELLS" -- text spans p9-342 -- no back pages, except p[343] identification of printer "The Gresham Press // Unwin Brothers, Limited // Woking and London"

      There is no frontispiece. The earliest illustration, paging from the front, is a small line drawing on page 34, in the style of the front cover drawing. The illustrator must be Wells, as Reginald Bliss.