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: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 1920
  • Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
  • Price: 8/-
  • Pages: 320
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Introduction (Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump)
  • Notes:
    • 2nd ed. This is a stated "Second Edition" with Wells acknowledged as the author on the title page. There was a second printing in 1915. --from the title leaf viewed at HDL
    • Publication date and price from listing in "This Week's Books", The Athenaeum #4721 (1920-10-22) p567. The listing states "2nd ed. 8x5 1/2. 342 pp. il." (same page count as the 1st ed.) but 320 is correct.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides 3 copies without the original cover: -- title page, evidently revised only by augmentation of the 4th component:   with An Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells   (Who is in Truth the Author of the entire Book) -- text spans p9-320 (entirely reset) -- no back pages Page 320 ends with the two lines, "Printed in Great Britain by // Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham Press, Woking and London" (fashioned differently from the 1st ed., p[342]).

      There is no frontispiece. The earliest illustration, paging from the front, is a small line drawing on page 32. The illustrator must be Wells, as Reginald Bliss.