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A special edition with 40 illustrations from the book's first magazine appearance in 1904.The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. There have been various B-movie adaptations. The novel is about a group of scientists who invent a food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults. It is divided into three "books": "Book I: The ...

A nice version with over 130 illustrations, 10 of them full page.The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark. Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal). His life includes the first toys, stockings, Christmas trees and other Christmas traditions.

A nice edition of this Christmas classic with 50 original illustrations.Three Christmas stories by Charles Dickens. The Holly-Tree Inn begins with a gentleman on his way to Liverpool that gets snowed in at the Holly-Tree Inn in Yorkshire. He remembers previous inns he has visited. The Seven Poor Travellers and The Christmas Tree are two other short stories that Dickens included in his Christmas Stories collection. They are all overshadowed by ...

A nice edition with 12 original illustrations by H. T. Dunn.A nice collection of stories with a western setting by the author of The Virginian. This was first published in book form in 1911. Includes "Happy-Teeth", "Spit-Cat Creek", "In The Back", "Timberline", "The Gift Horse", "Extra Dry", "Where It Was", and "The Drake Who Had Means Of His Own".

A nice edition with 12 illustrations from the 1881 release.Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine. It is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble...

A nice edition with 9 illustrations from the original publication in Collier's Magazine in 1898.The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine in 1898. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. In the century following its...

Lord Jim is a powerful novel by Joseph Conrad. A young British seaman named Jim abandons his ship Patna in the middle of a storm, fearing the ship will sink and leaving the 800 passengers on board to fend for themselves. He arrives in port to discover the ship has survived and has been brought safely into port. Censured for this action, he disappears into the jungle to attempt to come to terms with himself and his past.

A nice edition enhanced with 16 illustrations and photographs.Heart of Darkness is a 1899 novella by Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the successful ivory trader Kurtz. Conrad offers parallels betwee...

A nice edition of two classic Conrad stories. Includes 6 illustrations from an original Typhoon publication.Typhoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard a steamer. It describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the SS Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon-a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific...

A nice edition with 12 illustrations from the first edition of this Western classic.Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time." It is a story about three main characters, Bern Venters, Jane Withersteen, and Jim Lassiter, who ...

A nice edition with 16 illustrations for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.The Man Who Would Be King is about two British adventurers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was published in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book. It follows the adventures of a valiant young Indian gray mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi as he becomes the pet of a British family in India as p...

A nice edition with all 3 parts from the original first edition including 18 photographs and illustrations.The Story of My Life, published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. It has been adapted for plays and films. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, "To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the...

A nice edition with 28 photographs about the Mexican Revolution.In the autumn of 1913, the journalist John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months and was with Villa's Constitutional Army (whose "Primer Jefe" political chief was Venustiano Carranza) when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City...

A nice edition with 18 illustrations and photographs and the full text of his Fourth of July Speech.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes th...

A nice illustrated edition of this classic, powerful autobiography about slavery in the nineteenth century in America. Also includes The Anti-Slavery Alphabet.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedo...

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A nice illustrated edition of another classic in our Wizard of Oz Collection with more than 100 original illustrations.Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad, even the rag crop is failing. To top it all off, King Fumbo's head is blown away in a ferocious st...

A nice edition with 22 original illustrations.Captains Courageous, published in 1897, follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. After being washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship, he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's. It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America. Through a ...

A nice version with 56 original illustrations.Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, "Oz books in miniature, " in 1913, and then in a collected edition in 1914 with illustrations by John R. Neill. The stories are:"The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger"Little Dorothy and Toto"Tiktok and the Nome ...

A nice version with 34 illustrations and photographs that bring the working conditions to life.The Jungle is a 1906 novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with several pass...