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A nice 100th Anniversary Edition with 28 original illustrations by Sidney Paget.The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. It was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902, w...

A beautiful unabridged 200th Anniversary Edition with 20 illustrations and a ForewordNorthanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication in 1803. However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasion. Northanger Abbey is a satire of Gothic novels, which were quite popular at the time. This coming-of-age story revolves around Catherine Morland, a young and na...

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A beautiful unabridged 200th Anniversary Edition with 40 illustrations from a 1902 edition and a Foreword.Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, initially published anonymously in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne as they come of age. They have an older, stingy half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mothe...

A beautiful illustrated edition with 100 illustrations and the cover from the first edition.The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in the last adventure "The Final Problem". Readers wanted him to write more adventures featuring Sherlock Holmes, so Do...

A nice illustrated edition with 13 original N.C. Wyeth illustrations.The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 historical and romance novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The novel is set in the reign of King Henry VI and during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). The book tells the story of Richard Shelton becoming a knight, rescuing his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtaining justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in...

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 beautiful illustrated edition of a classic Shakespeare comedy with 16 original illustrations.The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare, most likely in 1596. A merchant in Venice (Antonio) must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered f...

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 nice edition with original first edition cover and 13 original illustrations.The Sign of Four was first released to magazines in 1890. It was later published in book format and is also known by the title The Sign of the Four. It is the second Sherlock Holmes novel, after A Study in Scarlet. The plot involves service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and ...

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 illustrated classic with 100 original illustrationsSeaWolf 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: 100 original illustrations. Don't be fooled by other versions with missing or made-up pictures. Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other version...

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 illustrations. 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 re...

A nice edition with 15 illustrations from the first edition of When the Sleeper Wakes which was rewritten by Wells and released as The Sleeper Awakes. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, a...

Famous Plague Stories contains three classic illustrated fiction stories about the plague and germ warfare that were written more than 100 years ago. They are particularly relevant due to emergence of new diseases world-wide in the 21st century. The Scarlet Plague, written by Jack London in 1912, was an early science-fiction story set in 2073, sixty years after a devastating plague wipes out most of the planet's population. One of the few surv...