• Publication: Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last TrumpPublication Record # 304078
• Author: Reginald Bliss
• Date: 1915-05-03
• Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 342
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Webpages: archive.org-1, archive.org-2
• 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.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003885863
  • LCCN: 23-3024
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 270876681

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Introduction (Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump) • (1915) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 9 • Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last Trump • non-genre • (1915) • novel by H. G. Wells [as by Reginald Bliss]