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