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A List of the Number of Novels in Each Series Compared with the Number Never Previously Published and Never Reprinted by Beadle in Other Series


I

II

III

IV

Dime Novels

321

316

0

1

New Dime Novels

310

6

0

5

Fifteen Cent Novels

22

0

0

0

Half-Dime Novelette

1

1

0

0

American Library

84

1

0

0

American Library Special publication

1

0

0

0

Sixpenny Tales

11

8

6

0

American Library Tales

12

0(1)

0

0

Standard Library of Romance

8

0

0

0

Tales, Traditions and Romance

12

12

0

0

Irwin P. Beadle's Ten Cent Novels

6

6

4

0

Irwin P. Beadle's Ten Cent Stories

1

1

1

0

American Tales

92

89

3

0

Dime Library of Choice Fiction

6

6

1

0

Dime Fiction

9

9

1

0

Dime Classic Stories

1

1

0

0

Irwin's American Novels

48

48(2)

17

0

Irwin P. Beadle's Six Penny Tales

2

2

1

0

Fifty Cent Books

5

1

0

4

Frank Starr's American Novels

221

112

0

1

Twenty-five Cent Novels

4

4

0

0

Frank Starr's Fifteen Cent Illustrated Novels

22

22

5

0

New and Old Friends

18

1

0(3)

0

Boy's Books of Romance and Adventure

21

0

0

0

Pocket Novels

272

0

0

4

Cheap Edition of Popular Authors

29

0

0

11

Twenty Cent Novels

32

0

0

26

Fireside Library

145

67

53

61

Frank Starr's Ten Cent Pocket Library

6

4

0

1

Frank Starr's New York Dime Library

26

8

0

4

Dime Library

1103(4)

692

638

316

Sunnyside Library

6

6

6

0

Half-Dime Library

1168

824

558

164

Waverley Library (quarto edition)

236

143

65

61

Waverley Library (octavo edition)

117

2

2

26

Boy's Library (quarto edition)

121

88

0

15

Boy's Library (octavo edition)

319

21

6

21

Pocket Library

492

5

4

46

Popular Library

48

42

0

6

5258

2548

1371

773(5)

Serials

718

610

59

Total

different novels

3158

Total appearing only once

1430



I

II

III

Biographical booklets

38

21

21

Handbooks

34

34

34

Song books

119

119

119

Dialogues

41

41

41

Speakers

25

25

25

Humor

6

6

6

Baseball

20

20

20

Civil War

11

11

11

Tax books

8

8

8

Year books

2

2

2

Cloth bound

9

9

9

313

296

296



I

II

III

The Home

6

6

6

Beadle's Monthly

6

6

2

Saturday Journal/Star Journal (various title changes)

305

285

38

Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes)

376

293

9

Belles and Beaux

4

4

0

Girls of Today

10

5

2

Young New Yorker

11

11

2

718

610

59


I Number of novels in each series.
II Number in each series never previously published by Beadle.
III Number in each series never reprinted by Beadle in other series.
IV Number of stories in the various series which originally appeared as serials in Beadle's story papers.


Notes

1 The titles in Vols. II and III are unknown, but since the tales in Vols. I and IV are reprints, these are probably also.
2 The number of originals is probably right, although not all have been seen, consequently reprints of a few may be listed as originals in other series which may possibly make an error of four or five in total of originals.
3 In the second series, part of one was not reprinted.
4 The first 26 numbers, which were the same as Frank Starr's New York Dime Library but with new headings, are counted as new issues.
5 This total contains some duplication since a serial in one of the story papers may have appeared later in several "libraries."

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