![Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title]. Unkwn., and, 1850–1920, Charles Garvice](/pictures/thumb/3728555_1.jpg?v=1555520828)
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..... Read More about Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title
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...
![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
![For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play...](/pictures/thumb/3728228_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
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..... Read More about For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play...
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..... Read More about Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name....
![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...
![The Forest Avenger. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series. Capt. Frederick Whittaker, 1838–1889](/pictures/thumb/3728219_1.jpg?v=1545247770)
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..... Read More about The Forest Avenger. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series
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...... Read More about Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition
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... Read More about The Colored American Magazine. August, 1900
![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
![Wilkie Collins:] “The Girl at the Gate (Written for the Christmas Spirit)” [published...](/pictures/thumb/3727762_1.jpg?v=1539185583)
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...
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
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..... Read More about Little Caesar
![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
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... Read More about The Ferguson Affair
![Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]. Kyle Onstott](/pictures/thumb/3727037_1.jpg?v=1542657639)
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... Read More about Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition
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...
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
