THIRTY-SIX ISSUES OF THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY, 11 DECEMBER 1889 - 24 SEPTEMBER 1897 Tousey, Frank AMERICANA,CHILDREN,LITERATURE,LOMAZOW

8-1/2" x 11-1/2". Each issue is 16 -32 pages, with caption title. Each title page has a large engraved illustration of the featured story, and some have additional illustrations in text. Despite the poor quality of the paper, most are complete and tell the story advertised on the first page. Chipping of edges and several issues have corners cut [both causing occasional loss of pagination or text], a few are partly uncut. Many with staples or stitching at bound edge. No. 1204 with a significant tear of front wrap and first leaf of text with text loss; No. 1263 lacks pp.25-32; No. 1300 with significant tattering of outer edge [some text loss]. Occasional stationer's rubberstamps. Otherwise, conditions vary from Good to Very Good. No. 919 Henpecked [1889] No. 931 Muldoon Out West [1890] No. 939 Our Landlord: Or, Life in French Flats [1890] No. 979 Little Tommy Bounce; or, Something Like His Dad [1890] No. 1016 Muldoon's Trip Around the World. Part II [1890] No. 1102 Muldoon's Hotel. Part II [1892] No. 1151 The Parson's Boy: Or, The Innocent One of the Family [1892] No. 1183 The Shortys On the Road; or, In the Old Business Just for Fun [1893] No. 1203. The Young Aeronaut. [1894] No. 1204. Denver Dan and His Mystic Band [tear with loss to first six pages] [1894] No. 1213. Prairie Phil [1894] No. 1215. Black and Blue or Nick Wharton on the War-Path [1894] No. 1217. The Pirates Son [1895] No. 1229. Jack Harkaway at Oxford [1895] No. 1254. Dick Lightheart [1896] No. 1263. The Marked Moccasin: Or, Pandy Ellis' Pard [lacks pp.25-32] [1896] No. 1266. Ferret, The Little Detective: Or, The Man of Many Faces [1896] No. 1269. Young Jack Harkaway and the Idols of Gold [1896] No. 1275. Long-Paw, The Mysterious Hunter [1896] No. 1276. The Young Engineer, Or, Fighting Against Odds [1896] No. 1279. Zola The Old Trapper's Daughter [1896] No. 1281. Young Jack Harkaway And the Pearly Divers of Ceylon [1896] No. 1286. Denver Dan Jr. And His Band of Dead Shots [1896] No. 1294. Young Jack Harkaway and the Boars of the Transvaal [1896] No. 1300. Old Fox: Or, The Mystery of the Trunk [1897], moderately chipped No. 1302. Young Jack Harkaway Among the Cuban Insurgents [1897] No. 1306. Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Slave Traders of the Soudan [1897] No. 1309. Silvershot, The Sport from Sacramento [1897], moderately chipped No. 1310. Young Jack Harkaway and the Dervishes of the Nile [1897] No. 1314. Young Jack Harkaway in Armenia: or, A Fight With The Turks [1897] No. 1318. Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Bandits of the Balkans [1897] No. 1322. Young Jack Harkaway in the Wilds of Siberia [1897] No. 1326. Young Jack Harkaway and the Shah of Persia [1897] No. 1329. A Soldier at Sixteen: or, Fighting for the Union [1897], moderately chipped No. 1333. Tick Tack, The Messenger Boy; Or, Sharp Work for a Million [1897] No. 1338. Young Jack Harkaway, Millionaire, in Paris [1897], moderately chipped "Frank Tousey's 'Five Cent Wide-Awake Library' marketed half-dime books to boys between 1878 and 1896 and produced over a thousand different stories. The Wide-Awakes were also a northern Republic[an] youth organisation of local chapters, associated with Lincoln's 1860 election. Although the group was meant to represent up-to-date young Americans, it became disturbingly paramilitary. . ." [Langbauer, Young America: Dime Novels and Juvenile Authorship, researchgate.net, page 106.] LeBlanc Dime Novel Bibliography, online at dimenovels.org.