The House Of Beadle And Adams And Its Dime And Nickel Novels. The Story Of A Vanished Literature

ALBERT JOHANNSEN

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950, Norman

First edition. Quarto. VOLUME I: Cloth, xxv [3], 476 pp., frontis. [portrait], preface, abbreviations, foreword, introduction, appendix, general index. Very good copy. VOLUME II: Cloth, [4], 443 pp., illustrated, plates, portraits, bibliography, index of titles and subtitles, index of principal localities, general index. Very good copy. Both volumes housed in the original slipcase. The first volume contains a history of the firm and bibliographical lists of its publications. The second volume provides biographical sketches of the authors and specimens of their writing styles. Complete with Volume III: published in 1962, by the University of Oklahoma Press as a supplement, addenda, corrigenda, etc. to the original two volumes. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. The best work on the subject.

Inventory Number: 42271