The title page of the 1920 Second Edition acknowledged Wells the author of the entire work, by appending a parenthetical note at the end of the very long 1915 title and credits (below): "... With an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells (Who is in Truth the Author of the entire Book)".
The 1920 and later editions retain the original "Ambiguous Introduction" (see), which must have hinted the truth adequately for most readers.
Contents (10 unnumbered chapters):
• 1. The Back of Miss Bathwick and George Boon
• 2-7. [six chapters feature The Mind of the Race]
• 8. The Beginning of "The Wild Asses of the Devil"
• 9. The Hunting of the Wild Asses of the Devil
• 10. The Story of the Last Trump
As of May 2020, two stories in the database as 1915, The Wild Asses of the Devil and The Story of the Last Trump, are derived from chapters 8-9 and 10, by inference from their titles.
- 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
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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.
