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A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 19 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout.Othello, the Moor of Venice is another tragedy by William Shakespeare, most likely written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army and his unfaithful ensign, Iago. Given its varied a...

A beautiful edition of the classic Shakespeare play. Illustrated with 18 original etchings and an easy-to-read layout.Macbeth, also know as The Tragedy of Macbeth, is a classic Shakespeare tragedy, most likely written in 1606. It examines the damaging effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotl...

A beautiful, unabridged version with 80 illustrations and a cover from the 1874 edition. Includes Verne's sequel, A Trip Round It.From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. This edition combines that novel with his sequel, A Trip Round It. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad cannon and launch three people-the G...

A beautfiul version with the original illustrations and text from the first edition.The Call of the Wild is Jack London's best known book. It follows Buck, a huge Saint Bernard, as he is kidnapped from his comfortable life in California and transported to the Klondike Gold Rush. His abductors sell him to be used as a sled dog for the miners in the North. He slowly discovers his ancient root as his civilized upbringing is slowly eroded by the h...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original frontispiece. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are rep...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original frontispiece. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are rep...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are replicas of the first edition...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original illustration. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. The follow-up book to Jerry of the Islands, this story follows Jerry's Irish terrier brother Michael in the Solomon Islands. The dog is working aboard a slave hunting...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original illustration. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916.Published after his death, this is one of two dog stories that London wrote set in the South Pacific. The story is told through the eyes of Jerry, an Irish terrier. The...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A nice version with the first edition cover. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. One of Jack London's several plays that he wrote, Scorn of Women is similar to some of his best books about the North. It takes place over a period of thirteen hours in 1897 in the Northwest Territ...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original illustration. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. The last of London's books published during his lifetime, it involves a love triangle set in California. The main character, Paula, is married to Dick Forrest but fal...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and text. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. Jack London was a Socialist for most of his life. He had seen great injustices done to the working poor in America and in London. This book contains seven essays expounding his views ...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original illustration. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. A collection of eight very different short stories and plays by Jack London. The title story, "The Human Drift", describes the ebb and flow of the world's population ...

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and original illustration. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: Published two years after his death, The Red One contains four of Jack London's short stories. London ventures into the realm of science fictio...

A beautiful illustrated edition with all 22 original photographs from the first edition.Several years after Jack London's death, his wife Charmian released a 2-volume biography of his life. Volume II starts with his return from Korea after war-reporting and his divorce from his first wife. It covers their trip on the Snark and trips to New York and around Cape Horn. The 'bad year' when his house burns is described in detail, as is a return to ...

A beautiful illustrated version with all 25 original photographs and cover from the first edition.Several years after Jack London's death, his wife Charmian released a 2-volume biography of his life. Volume I starts with the origins of his parents, John and Flora, and covers Jack's childhood and early life growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also covers his oyster pirating, Klondike trips, and time spent riding the railroads. The book...

A beautiful illustrated edition with all 45 original photographs and full original text. Jack London's wife, Charmian London, kept a journal during her trip to the South Pacific with Jack on their sailboat Snark. Jack went on to publish his version, The Cruise of the Snark, while Charmian later released her version, The Log of the Snark. She removed the section about Hawaii and made it into this separate book. It is both an interesting travel ...

A beautiful illustrated edition with all 42 original photographs and original text from the first edition.Jack London's wife, Charmian London, kept a journal during her trip to the South Pacific with Jack on their sailboat Snark. Jack went on to publish his version, The Cruise of the Snark, while Charmian later released her version, The Log of the Snark. She details, day by day, the trials, challenges, and joys of sailing a small boat through ...

A beatiful edition of this classic with 42 original John Tenniel 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 worl...

A classic edition based on the original 1938 edition.Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella first conceived as a play and finally published as a novel in England in 1938. It was published in the U.S. only after the success of her novel The Fountainhead. In the future, mankind has entered a new Dark Age where everything is planned and individuality eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 carries out secret scientific research and has to...