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A nice edition that includes the text of Booker T. Washington's influential Atlanta Compromise Speech.The Future of the American Negro was written in 1899 by American educator Booker T. Washington. It set forth his ideas regarding the history of enslaved and freed African-American people and their need for education to advance themselves. He believes that even though slavery is illegal, the freed African-Americans are still enslaved to the whi...

A nice edition with more than 40 original illustrations by Frank Schoonover from the 1923 edition.Ivanhoe: A Romance is a historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in late 1819. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England. It has proved to be one of the best known and most influential o...

A nice edition with 36 illustrations and photographs from the first edition.Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics. The book is a detaile...

A nice edition of this classic book about an amazing woman, includes 7 photographs.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 listening ear to hear s...

A nice edition with 80 illustrations and photographs to accompany the text. His article Strivings of the Negro People is also included.SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Illustrated Black History Collection. Each book in the collection usually contains the text and illustrations from the first or early edition, and additional photographs about the subject. Our version has:80 illustrations and photographs. These really help bri...

A nice edition with 11 illustrations and photographs to accompany the text. His article The Social Evolution of the Black South is also included.The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. It is a fairly comprehensive overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songhai, as well as covering the history of the slave trade and the history of Africans ...

A special edition with 22 photographs and Washington's The Story of Slavery.Character Building is a book published by Booker T. Washington in 1902. It is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute he was leading. Mr. Washington's habit has for many years been to deliver a practical, straightforward address to the students of Tuskegee Institute on Sunday evening. These addresses have had mu...

A nice edition with 100 original illustrations by John R. Neill, many full page. Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1912. L. Frank Baum is the author of the famous Wizard of Oz series. As the full title indicates, Sky Island is a sequel to Baum's The Sea Fairies of 1911. Both b...

A nice, unabridged edition of this classic with 28 photographs and illustrations. Includes his influential Atlanta Compromise speech.Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington. The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to h...

A nice edition with 78 illustrations and photographs to accompany the text.The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African Amer...

A nice edition with 16 illustrations and photographs.John Brown was born in slavery and made his way North to escape slavery, working in various places. He sailed to England in 1850, as the new Fugitive Slave Law passed in the United States increased enforcement against fugitive slaves even in free states. He did not want to be taken back into slavery. In London, Brown worked as a carpenter. There he contacted the British and Foreign Anti-Slav...

A nice edition of this classic book with 85 original illustrations by John NeillThe Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1911 by the Reilly & Britton Company, the publisher of Baum's series of Oz books. The novel involves Mayre Griffiths, nicknamed Trot, or sometimes Tiny Trot, is a little girl who lives on the coast of southern California. Her father is the captain ...

A nice edition with 60 illustrations from various artists.The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India, one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" in the central state of Madhya ...

A nice edition with 75 illustrations.Just So Stories is a 1902 collection of original stories. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acq...

SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition. Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Our version has:46 black and white illustrations including 8 full page illustrations by David Ljungdahl. Don't be fooled by other versions with missing...

A nice edition with all 12 original illustrations.Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the ...

A nice edition with 18 pictures and illustrationsNarrative 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 the events of his life and is considered to be one of...

A nice illustrated edition of another classic in our Wizard of Oz Collection. It contains more than 100 original John Neill illustrations.The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Woggle-bug tells him that he has no family, so he g...