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A nice edition of this Oz classic with more than 100 original illustrations by John R. Neill.The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) is the seventeenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill.The story opens with Mustafa of Mudge, a turbaned desert monarch with blue whiskers, who collects lions. Mustafa demands one more lion-he already has ...

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A nice edition with all 7 N. C. Wyeth original illustrations.The Mysterious Stranger is a novel by the American author Mark Twain that he worked on for a number of years between 1897 and 1908. This final version was published in 1916 after his death. The story takes place in 1590, where three boys, Theodor, Seppi, and Nikolaus, live relatively happy simple lives in a remote Austrian village called Eseldorf (German for "Assville" or "Donkeytown...

A nice version with 220 original illustrations from the first edition.The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. The book is remarkable for two reasons-it is the only novel Twain wrote with a...

A nice edition of the two classics, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, with 130 illustrations by Arthur Rackham from 100 years ago."The Sleeping Beauty" is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, where she would be awakened by a handsome prince. When the good fairy hears this she knew that the princess would be frightened if she found herself alone when she wakes up, so the fairy uses...

A nice edtiion with 80 illustrations from the first edition.Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne published in 1863. The book helped Verne perfect his story telling skills, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the...

A nice editon of this Grahame classic complete with original illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to the 1895 collection The Golden Age, Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day. Like its precurso...

A nice edtiion of this classic novel fully illustrated by well-known artist Maxfield Parrish.The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and first published in book form in 1895. The Prologue and six of the stories had previously appeared in the National Observer, the journal then edited by William Ernest Henley. Widely praised upon its first appearance - Algernon Charles Swinburne, writing in the D...

A nice edition with 12 original illustrations by Clare LeightonWuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847 with the author identified as Ellis Bell. The American edition published a year later incorrectly attributed the book to "The Author of Jane Eyre". Emily's real name did not appear until an 1850 edition. Wuthering Heights's violence and passion led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written...

A nice illustrated edition of the classic, complete with 12 illustrations and pictures from the Battle of Chancellorsville.The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane. Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage, " to counteract his cowardice. Wh...

A nice illustrated version of this original play, compete with 20 illustrations.Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote this wonderful tale under the pen-name of Lewis Carroll. It was written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of a fellow college professor at the University of Oxford in England and first published in 1865. It is often classified in the literary nonsense genre. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy wor...

A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 12 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout.A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies and was most likely written in 1595. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. The play follows the actions of four young Athenian lovers and six amateur actors (who are co...

A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 16 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout.The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is another historical tragedy written by William Shakespeare, most likely performed first in 1599. It is one of several plays he wrote based on events from Roman history. Other characters, particularly Brutus, speak many more lines than the title character and the play focuses on Brutus' struggle be...

A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 23 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout. Hamlet, also known as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a Shakespeare tragedy written most likely around 1599. Set in Denmark, the play follows the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the thr...

A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 18 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout.Compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was most likely finished in 1595. It was among Shakespeare's most popular pla...

A beautiful edition with the cover, text, and all 56 original illustrations from the 1906 first edition."Eve's Diary" is a short story by Mark Twain first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar. Written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, it is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by her mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know...

A beautiful, illustrated edition of the classic Peter Pan, originally titled Peter and Wendy.SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its collection of illustrated classic literature. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition. Our version has 12 illustrations from a 1912 edition.J.M. Barrie first released Peter Pan, or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in the form of a play in 19...

A beautiful edtion with 40 original illustrations.A Study in Scarlet first appeared in 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual and was marked the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder inve...

A beautiful illustrated edition with 16 original Sidney Paget illustrations.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote several novels in addition to his short stories. The Hound of the Baskervilles is his third novel featuring the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally serialized in The Strand Magazine. It is set on Dartmoor in Devon, England and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of su...

The classic H. G. Wells book, The War in the AIr, written before World War I but predicting the rise of airplanes in warfare. Nice edition with 16 illustrations and cover from the first 1908 edition.The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts-in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare. Written before World War I an...