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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...

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

GENERAL RULES OF MARINE INSURANCE 1919

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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 ...