Dime Novels

Buffalo Bill's Special
Service. No. 243.
New York: Buffalo Bill Stories,
1906
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
(190.1)

Crack Skull Bob. No. 5.
New York: Orum & Company,1872
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
(188.1)

Jesse James Protector. No. 113.
New York: Jesse James Stories, 1903
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
(189.1)

[Dime novel grouping] including:
Beadle's Dime Novels.
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens.
Malaeska; the Indian Wife of the White Hunter. New York: Irwin P. Beadle & Co., 1860
American Novels.
Merciless Matt.
New York: Frank Starr & Co., 1872
Beadle's Dime Novels.
The Texan Trailer.
Beadle & Co., 1871
New Nick Carter Weekly.
By Command of the Czar.
New York: Street & Smith, 1905
Frank Reade.
Transient Lake: Frank Tousey, 1905

Keetsea, Queen of the Plains.
New York: Beadle & Co.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Copyright deposits
(187A.1)

In 1860 a publishing phenomenon appeared that would provide Americans a wealth of popular fiction in a regular series at a fixed, inexpensive price. Early dime novels, first printed in orange wrapper papers, were patriotic, often nationalistic tales of encounters between Indians and backwoods settlers. By the mid-1890s, bold color covers depicting scenes of bloodshed and courage appealed to a mostly adolescent audience. Through copyright deposit the Library has accumulated a collection of nearly 40,000 titles.

Harry Cavendish.
The Privateer's Cruise and the
Bride of Pomfret Hall. No. 2.
New York: Irwin P. Beadle & Co., 1860
(186.1)

The Forest Spy, A Tale of the
War of 1812. No. 29.
New York: Beadle's & Co.: 1905
(187.1)

The Black Princess, no. 243
New York: Beadle & Co. , 1871
(187A)

Young Wild West Missing; or
Saved by an Indian Princess, no. 8
New York: December 12, 1902
(188B)

King of the Wild West's Cattle War or Stella's Bout with the Rival Ranchers,
Crack Skull Bob, no. 170
New York: Smith Publishing,
July 20, 1907
(188A)

Jessie James the Outlaw, no. 2
New York: Jesse James Stories,
December 22, 1897
(189A)

Female Trapper or, Lone-Star Lizzie, no. 108
New York: Robert M. Dewit Publishers,
1873
(190A)

The Southern Star; or,
the Belle of the Island City, no. 4
Boston: Hub Publishing Co.,
September 1891
(190.5)

King of the West and the Timber Cruisers or How Stella Stormed the Lumber Camp, no. 163
June 1, 1907
New York: Street & Smith Publishers, 1907
(188A.1)

White Wolf; or, The Mountain Den, no. 110
New York: Robert M. Dewit Publishers, 1873
(190A.1)

Beadle's Dime Novels
The Partisan Spy, no. 230
New York: Beadle & Co., 1871
(187A.2)

Jesse James's Oath or Tracked to Death, no. 6, January 19, 1898
New York: Street & Smith Publishers, 1898
(189A.1)

Buffalo Bill's Best Shot, no. 3,
December 29, 1897
New York: Log Cabin Library, 1897
(190.6)

The War Library. Blue or Gray or Hunted Spy of the Chickahominy,
Vol. 1, no. 2, September 23, 1882.
New York: Novelist
Publishing Co., 1882
[Digital ID# at0187a_3]

O. J. Victor
Beadle’s Dime Biographical Library.
Garibaldi, The Washington of Italy.
New York: Beadle & Co., 1860
[Digital ID# at0189a_2]

The Union Library. Dick the Engineer Boy or Gen. Bixby’s Trusty Messenger,
Vol. 1, no. 15, April 12, 1890.
New York: W. H. Hinckson, 1890
[Digital ID# at0190_2]

Army and Navy (Cadet School Stories),
Vol. 1, no. 27, December 18, 1897
New York: Street & Smith, 1897
[Digital ID# at0188a_2]

Rare Book & Special Collections Division