Frank P. O'Brien papers, 1862-1922.

Beadle, Erastus Flavel.

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O'Brien, Frank P.

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Frank P. O'Brien, a dentist in New York City, was a collector of Beadle and Adams dime novels and half-dime novels. These novels were published from 1859 to 1905 (Orville J. Victor was the editor). Dr. O'Brien was known as "the living authority on the affairs of the House of Beadle". From the guide to the Frank P. O'Brien papers, 1862-1922, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Frank P. O'Brien, a dentist in New York City, was a colle...

Beadle and Adams (1872-1898)

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The Beadle Dime Novels , together with numerous other publications issued by the firms Beadle and Co., Irwin P. Beadle and Co., and Beadle and Adams, were a tremendously successful foray in cheap literature for the mass public. Dime novels, like the story papers that had preceded them and the pulp magazines that would replace them in the twentieth century, delivered adventurous or sensational stories in inexpensive, paper-bound editions. Although the Beadle brothers,...