This scarce novel is one of several books set in the fictional Scottish village of Thrums and written by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Said to be modelled ...

This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in 1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'The ...

This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'Rough ...

This volume contains an vintage article on the lychee, with information on growing, harvesting, problems, and other related species and varieties. Illustrated ...

"Good-Bye My Fancy" is an 1891 collection of poetry by Walt Whitman, intended to be a companion to his work "Leaves of Grass". Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) ...

Matthew Fontaine Maury has been nicknamed the "pathfinder of the seas" and the "father of modern oceanography". This is a detailed biography of the man ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing ...