Category: Adventure
Through the generosity of Dr. Frank P. O’Brien of New York, who has given this collection to the Library, it is possible to place on exhibition about fourteen hundred of those rare little books and magazines which, beginning about the year 1859, were issued in America under th...
Through the generosity of Dr. Frank P. O’Brien of New York, who has given this collection to the Library, it is possible to place on exhibition about fourteen hundred of those r...
2. Part 2Most spectacular and attractive of all, in their outward appearance, are the books of the Type H series. These are likewise octavos, published in 1870 and the years immediately...
3. Part 3BALLARD, J. D. Sparks from the camp-fire. The truest and most tragic tales of the war. New York: Army and Navy Pub. Co., 1883. 23 p. illus. f^o. (no. 9.)
4. Part 4DUMONT, Frank. Wide-a-wake, the robber king; or, The idiot of the Black Hills. A dramatic romance of wild life on the border. New York: Beadle & Adams, cop. 1879. 21 p. illus. 4...
5. Part 5MERRILL, James Milford. Kinkfoot Karl, the mountain scourge; or, Wiping out the score. By Morris Redwing [pseud.]. New York: Beadle & Adams, 1884. 29 p. illus. 4. ed. f^o. (no....
6. Part 6SIMS, A. K. Stuttering Sam, the whitest sport of Santa Fe; or, How the hummer from Hummingbird feathered his nest. New York: Beadle & Adams, 1891. 32 p. illus. f^o. (no. 673.)
7. Part 7no. 1 has title: Beadle’s dime American speaker; no. 2: Beadle’s dime national speaker; no. 3: Beadle’s dime patriotic speaker; no. 4: Beadle’s dime comic speaker; no. 5: Beadle...
8. Part 8HALL, Samuel S. The Tarantula of Taos; or, Giant George’s revenge. By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall.... New York: Beadle and Adams, 1883. 14 p. illus. 3. ed. 4^o. (no. 297.)
9. Part 9COWDRICK, Jesse C. Broadway Billy’s queer bequest; or, Sifting the Santvoord secret. The romance of a remarkable remainder. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1892. 14 p. illus. 4^o. (...
10. Part 10WHEELER, Edward L. The Buffalo Demon; or, The border vultures. A tale of the Southwest. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1884. 31 p. illus. 2. ed. 8^o. (no. 7.)
11. Part 11HENDERSON, J. Stanley. The Cherokee chief; or, The white rose of the Saluda. A romance of 1756. New York: Beadle and Adams [cop. 1867]. 99 p. 16^o. (no. 156.)
12. Part 12WEAVER, Dick. Dick Weaver’s great keno songster. Selection of comic, sentimental, burlesque and character songs. New York: F. Starr & Co. [cop. 1871.] iv, 6-64 p. 16^o. (Frank S...
13. Part 13SHILLABER, Benjamin Penhallow. Mrs. Partington’s ridicule. A collection of wit and humor, which the old lady offers to her friends. Boston: Thomes & Talbot [cop. 1863]. 100 p. 1...
14. Part 14Hall, S. S.: Arizona Jack, 46. Bald Head’s pards, 60. Bandera Bill, 48. The bayou bravo, 28. Big Foot Wallace, the king of the lariat, 26. The black bravo, 26. Bowlder Bill, 29....
15. Part 15Victor, Metta V. F.: Alice Wilde, the raftsman’s daughter, 71. The backwoods bride, 38, 71. The housewife’s manual, 22. Maum Guinea, and her plantation “children,” 38. Myrtle, t...
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