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Antique Dime Novels


DN_Brave_and_Bold_156

07 May 2010 183
A more perfect mephistoplean villian could not be had! Brave and Bold - Issue No. 156, December 16, 1905. A collector long ago lovingly and dutifully reinforced this issue along the edges, even going so far as to replace a small piece near the bottom left.

DN_Pluck_and_Luck_540

07 May 2010 186
Pluck and Luck - Issue No. 540, October 7, 1908.

DN_Pluck_and_Luck_763

07 May 2010 195
Wall Street reform of a different kind... Pluck and Luck - Issue No. 763, January 15, 1913.

DN_All_Around_14

05 May 2010 209
Poor elephant - stuck in the middle of the ongoing culture clash... All Around Weekly - Issue No. 14, Jan 28, 1910.

DN_All_Around_29

05 May 2010 210
Ourang-Outang?? How positively antediluvian! All Around Weekly - Issue No. 29, May 13, 1910 - soon to be 100 years old!!

DN_Bowery_Boy_85

06 Apr 2010 159
In the days before i-Pods and Nintendo, young boys sought other diversions, like sleuthing and crime-spoiling. Bowery Boy Library No. 85 - June 1, 1907 issue.

DN_Secret_Service_524

05 Apr 2010 144
Two generations of detectives and an exploding billiard ball - what more could a reader ask for? Secret Service No. 524, February 5, 1909 issue.

DN_Nick_Carter_599

06 Apr 2010 149
Crime rides the rails on this vintage Nick Carter Weekly from 1908. Nick Carter was one of the few dime novel heroes that survived the transition to the pulps.

DN_American_Indian_21

05 Jul 2008 172
Published in 1911, this antique dime novel, rich in Indian lore as the title suggests, features the adventures of a "boy scout" - though not necessarily a reference to the then burgeoning American Boy Scout movement.

Paying out the rope

22 Apr 2012 163
Doesn't this remind you of "The Perils of Pauline," even though upon closer inspection it is Singing Sue who is slated to play the part of heroine this day. Diamond Dick Jr. - No. 646 - February 27, 1909.

Daring deed

22 Apr 2012 166
Antique dime novel published by Street and Smith of New York. Diamond Dick Jr. - No. 689 - Christmas Day, 1909.

Buried alive

22 Apr 2012 174
"Both Diamond Dick and Handsome Harry stared in dismay..." Diamond Dick Jr. - No. 633 - November 28, 1908.

DN_Diamond_Dick_Jr_603

08 Nov 2010 201
Perhaps Diamond Dick is a little too pretty to intercede in this dispute between this diverse group of railway toughs..? Diamond Dick Jr. - No. 603 - May 2, 1908.

DN_Diamond_Dick_Jr_639

08 Nov 2010 165
It's hard to believe that a mere century ago you could still lay claim to an expanse of free land, and moreover, that there were others that would usurp that claim! Diamond Dick Jr. - No. 639 - January 9, 1909.

DN Geisha Girl

DN The Red League

DN Rajahs Ruby

The Red Rajah

19 Jan 2017 1 292
The Red Rajah by Capt. Frederick Whittaker - Great American Detective Series No. 2 (second series), published by The Arthur Westbrook Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

23 items in total