![Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title]. Unkwn., and, 1850–1920, Charles Garvice.](/pictures/thumb/3728555_1.jpg?v=1555520828)
Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title].
C.1920s pulp romantic fiction magazine aimed at women comprising two titles, one of which was copyrighted in 1898 by noted dime novel publishers, George Munro’s.....
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Shorty and the Count: or the Two Great Unmashed. Commences this week in the Boss Boys’ Paper of the World, the Boys of New York. [illustrated, hand-colored broadside]
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.....
![[Autograph of Bracebridge Hemyng, Dime Novelist, Speculative Fiction Author]. Bracebridge Hemyng,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
[Autograph of Bracebridge Hemyng, Dime Novelist, Speculative Fiction Author].
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.....
![For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play...](/pictures/thumb/3728228_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
Pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play For His Brother’s Crime. The romantic melodrama concerns the travails of twin brothers, Victor and Ben.....
Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. The melodrama concerns a young single woman.....
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on A.H. Wood’s play Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. The melodrama concerns a young single woman’s struggle.....
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...](/pictures/thumb/3728220_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series.
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.....
![The Forest Avenger. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series. Capt. Frederick Whittaker,...](/pictures/thumb/3728219_1.jpg?v=1545247770)
The Forest Avenger. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series.
Twelfth title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The adventure story is set in.....
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition.
From slavery to emancipation, popular Civil War era fiction written by this Gloucester, Massachusetts native about the emancipated male African American slave “Peculiar Institution”, a.k.a......
The Colored American Magazine. August, 1900.
The Colored American Magazine is a rare, short-lived, and important African-American periodical published in Boston from 1900 to 1909. Contributing authors over its run included...
![The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library. Anon.](/pictures/thumb/3727910_1.jpg?v=1541452178)
The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library.
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...
![[Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...](/pictures/thumb/3727762_1.jpg?v=1539185583)
[Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published within:] The Spirit of the Times.
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.....
Otis Dunn Manhunter.
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.....
Little Caesar.
The author’s first book, a crime novel about gangsters published in 1929. The story: Rico, a small-time criminal heads east to join mob to increase.....
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott.](/pictures/thumb/3727337_1.jpg?v=1542657645)
Drum. [Falconcrest Series]
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...
The Ferguson Affair.
A handsome copy of the first edition of The Ferguson Affair by Ross Macdonald, with California lawyer Bill Gunnarson as the main protagonist. New York...
![Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]. Kyle Onstott.](/pictures/thumb/3727037_1.jpg?v=1542657639)
Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as...
[Manuscript of William F. Vassall’s 1916 New York City Mystery “Pearls and Canes,” published in Detective Story Magazine].
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.....
The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster.
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.....
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