This is a ORIGINAL SCARCE ISSUE NOT A REPRINT

                BEADLE'S HALF DIME LIBRARY 

        FIRST 26 ISSUES 1877 / 1878

 These are the very first issues of a very long run by some of the more well known authors of the late 1800s. see below and see the video for the best description available

BEADLE'S HALF DIME LIBRARY 1 THRU 26

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1. Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills. (October 15), 1877. Edward L. Wheeler.
"$500 Reward: For the apprehension and arrest of a notorious young desperado who hails to the name of Deadwood Dick. His present whereabouts are somewhat contiguous to the Black Hills. For further information, and so forth, apply immediately to HUGH VANSEVERE,
At Metropolitan Saloon, Deadwood City."
In this tale, Deadwood Dick proposes to Calamity Jane, but is turned down. The date of the story is 1877.

2. Jr. Yellowstone Jack; or, Trappers of the Enchanted Ground. October 19, 1877. Joseph E. Badger

3. Kansas King; or, The Red Right Hand. October 22, 1877. Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody).

4. The Wild-Horse Hunters. October 26, 1877. Mayne Reid and Frederick Whittaker.

5. Vagabond Joe, the Young Wandering Jew; or, Plotting for a Legacy. October 29, 1877. Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1856. Indians, bad men, etc. The expressions "Boy Friend" and "Believe him or not" occur here. Oll Coomes.

This is a double number, not reprinted in any other "library," and is one of the scarcest of the Half-Dime Libraries. Early copies are marked "Price 10 Cents," but later ones have the price mark reduced to five cents.

6. Bill Biddon, Trapper; or, Life in the North-west. November 2, 1877. Edward S. Ellis.

7. The Flying Yankee; or, The Ocean Outcast. November 5, 1877. Prentiss Ingraham.

8. Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier. November 9, 1877. Three illustrations.
Edward S. Ellis.

9. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. November 12, 1877. Three illustrations. Originally published in 1785. The baron told tall tales to his friends over a bottle; now-a-days the newspapers tell them. (Rudolf Erich Raspe).

10. Nat Todd; or, The Fate of the Sioux Captive. A Sequel to "Bill Biddon, Trapper." November 16, 1877. Edward S. Ellis.

11. The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl. November 19, 1877. Albert W. Aiken. Three illustrations.

12. Gulliver's Travels (A Voyage to Lilliput). November 23, 1877. Originally published in 1726.
"A Voyage to Brobdingnag" is also included. The imaginary voyages of Gulliver to lands of the lilliputians and the giants. Jonathan Swift.

13. The Dumb Spy. November 26, 1877. Oll Coomes.

14. Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp. November 30, 1877. Three illustrations. One of the stories from the Arabian classic "Kitab Alf Laylah wa Laylah," known to us as "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night." First translated into English in 1704 to 1712. Anonymous.

15. The Sea-Cat; or, The Witch of Darien. A Story of the Spanish Main. December 3, 1877.
Frederick Whittaker.

16. Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. December 7, 1877. Daniel Defoe.
Thirty-two pages with twenty-seven original illustrations by George White.
This number is incorrectly marked (printing error) No. 19. Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1715-16. This edition not in Lloyd.

17. Ralph Roy, the Boy Buccaneer; or, The Fugitive Yacht. A Romance of Sea and Shore. December 10, 1877. New England coast and New York City, in 1810-12. Prentiss Ingraham.

18. Anonymous. The History of Sinbad the Sailor. December 14, 1877. Four illustrations. Another story from "Kitab Alf Laylah wa Laylah."

19. The Phantom Spy; or, The Pilot of the Prairie. December 17, 1877. Three illustrations.
Buffalo Bill.
20.
The Double Daggers; or, Deadwood Dick's Defiance. A Tale of the Regulators and Road-Agents of the Black Hills. December 21, 1877. The second Deadwood Dick story.
Edward L. Wheeler.

21. The Frontier Angel. A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life. December 24, 1877.
Edward S. Ellis.
22. Juan Lewis. The Sea Serpent; or, The Boy Robinson Crusoe. December 28, 1877.
New York, and an island in the Atlantic.

23. Nick o' the Night; or, The Boy Spy of '76. December 31, 1877. T. C. Harbaugh.

24. Prentiss Ingraham. Diamond Dirk; or, The Mystery of the Yellowstone. January 7, 1878.
Yellowstone Park in 1877. An Indian story.

25.
The Boy Captain; or, The Pirate's Daughter. January 14, 1878. Roger Starbuck.

26.
Cloven Hoof, the Buffalo Demon; or, The Border Vultures. A Tale of the Southwest. January 21, 1878. From Missouri to Texas—Indians and bandits. Edward L. Wheeler.This issue is in good condition with foxing on edges. See video for very best description.

Scarce, rare or just call it hard to come by they just aren't out there in this condition. The nearly full page lithograph is quite striking and is very collectible stories with a backdrop of many great western and nautical themes. Our dealer stamp on interior page. This issue is a large format 12.5 inches by 8.25 inches. 

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