ELEVEN ISSUES FROM VOLUME 1 OF THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY, 1878-1884 Tousey, Frank AMERICANA,CHILDREN,LITERATURE,LOMAZOW

8-1/4" x 11-1/2". Most are 32pp, two with 16pp [as issued], one with 64pp [as issued]. Caption titles. Each title page has a large engraved illustration of the featured story, some illustrations within text. Despite the poor quality of the paper, each issue is complete and tells the story advertised on the first page. Light to moderate wear with some chipping, some with staples or stitching in left margin, occasional edge reinforcements, some clipped corners. A few issues partly uncut. Issue No. 546 lacks one leaf of advertisements. Good+. No. 14 Shorty in Luck [1878] No. 29 One of the Boys of New York: or, The Adventures of Tommy Bounce [1878] No. 56 Shorty Junior [1879] No. 68 Mulligan's Boy [1879] No. 183 Chips and Chin Chin [1879] No. 461 The Shortys' Trip Around the World [1881] No. 476 Stuttering Sam [1882] No. 503 Tommy Bounce, Jr., in College [1882] No. 534 The Shorty's Out For Fun [1882] No. 546 Pickle & Tickle [lacks one leaf of advts.] [1883] No. 598 Cheeky and Chipper; or, Through Thick and Thin [1884] "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.