• Publication: Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and the Last TrumpPublication Record # 304079
• Author: H. G. Wells
• Date: 1920-10-00
• Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
• Price:
  8/-^?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: 320
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• 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.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 21-11498
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 71383847

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