Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have..... Read More about The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster
![The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3727910_1.jpg?v=1541452178)
Rare; OCLC returns no copies. Here is Nick Carter foiling an assassin. The startling illustration shows private detective Nick Carter in disguise and his identically..... Read More about The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library
![Autograph of Bracebridge Hemyng, Dime Novelist, Speculative Fiction Author]. Bracebridge Hemyng,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Autograph inscription by Bracebridge Hemyng (1841–1901), British barrister and author, best known in the United States for the “Jack Harkaway” series of dime novels. Hemyng..... Read More about Autograph of Bracebridge Hemyng, Dime Novelist, Speculative Fiction Author
Unrecorded hand-colored illustrated broadside—large—advertising the humorous short story “Shorty and the Count” first published in 1878 in the 19th century juvenile dime novel series The..... Read More about Shorty and the Count: or the Two Great Unmashed. Commences this week in the Boss Boys’ Paper of...
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott](/pictures/thumb/3727337_1.jpg?v=1542657645)
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, preceded by Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless..... Read More about Drum. [Falconcrest Series
Otis Dunn, a black man, is an ex-F.B.I. Agent turned bounty hunter. Manhunter is sold as a “suspenseful story set against the interplay of Southern..... Read More about Otis Dunn Manhunter
First edition of The Ferguson Affair by Ross Macdonald, with California lawyer Bill Gunnarson as the main protagonist. Dust jacket artwork by Muni Lieblein. New..... Read More about The Ferguson Affair
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...](/pictures/thumb/3728220_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Twenty-first title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The plot involves the Native American..... Read More about The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...
![Daughters of Destiny [L. Frank Baum Pseudonym]. Schuyler Staunton, L. Frank Baum](/pictures/thumb/3728786_1.jpg?v=1572992743)
Sound and presentable copy of this adult adventure in which “Baum’s hero is a half-Persian, half-American Muslim who marries the Christian American heroine, with no..... Read More about Daughters of Destiny [L. Frank Baum Pseudonym
![Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...](/pictures/thumb/3727762_1.jpg?v=1576013704)
Rare first appearance of Wilkie Collins’ short story “The Girl at the Gate” published in New York in December 1884 before its January 1885 appearance..... Read More about Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...
Manuscript fair copy of the detective story “Pearls and Canes” by mystery writer William F. Vassall. Set in New York City, the short story recounts..... Read More about Manuscript of William F. Vassall’s 1916 New York City Mystery “Pearls and Canes,” published...
