The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels

Albert Johannsen

The House of Beadle and Adams

and its Dime and Nickel Novels

The Story of a Vanished Literature

University of Oklahoma Press

Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Volume 1

1950, XXV + 476 pages

no ISBN

Volume 2

1950, 444 pages

no ISBN

(volume 1 & 2 sold in a slipcase)

Volume 3

1962, VII + 100 pages

no ISBN

Volume 1

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword, by John T. McIntyre

Part I. Introduction

1. Dime Novels

2. Authors, Artists, and Readers

Part II. A history of the Firm

3. Early days in Cooperstown and Buffalo

4. 1851 to 1856

5. 1857 to 1859

6. The year 1860

7. 1861 and 1862

8. The year 1863

9. 1864 to 1866

10. 1867 to 1869

11. The decade 1870 to 1879

12. The eighteen-eighties

13. The final years, 1890 to 1897

Part III. Numerical lists of the various series of Beadle Novels

Numerical lists

Miscellaneous publications

Biographical booklets

Handbooks

Songbooks

School books

Miscellaneous

Periodicals

Volume 2

Part IV. The authors and their novels

Biographies of authors, alphabetically arranged

Part V. Appendix

A list of the principal Beadle Publications

Dates at which the Firm changed names and addresses

A list of the number of novels in each series

Beadle reprints

Pseudonyms of various Beadle authors

Condition and values

Pre-Beadle novels

A list of some newspaper and magazine articles

Index of titles and subtitles in Part III

Index of principal localities

General index

Volume 3

Supplement, Addenda, Corrigenda, etc.

Preface

Corrections and additions, Volume 1

Corrections and additions, Volume 2

Beadle reprints in the Aldine "Boys' first-rate pocket Library", the Aldine "O'er Land and Sea Library"

    (London), and Aldine "Tip Top Tales"

Translations of foreign quotations

An index of the songs in Beadle's song books, 1858 to 1870

General index