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Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc

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Publication Date

1865 - 1893
(years)

Genre

  • Sea stories (28) + -
  • Romance fiction (7) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (1) + -
  • Science fiction (1) + -
  • Western stories (1) + -

Series

  • Beadle's dime novels (13) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (8) + -
  • Beadle's new dime novels (7) + -
  • Nugget library (1) + -

Author

  • St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889 (1) + -

Publisher

  • Beadle and Company (12) + -
  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (8) + -
  • Tousey, Frank (8) + -
  • Street & Smith (1) + -

Topic

  • Shipwrecks (7) + -
  • Whaling (7) + -
  • Castaways (6) + -
  • Pacific Islanders (4) + -
  • Pirates (4) + -
  • Mutiny (3) + -
  • Portuguese (3) + -
  • Ship captains (3) + -
  • Smugglers (3) + -
  • Treasure troves (3) + -
  • Muslims (2) + -
  • Spaniards (2) + -
  • Spies (2) + -
  • Tatars (2) + -
  • Abduction (1) + -
  • Algerians (1) + -
  • Chileans (1) + -
  • Daughters (1) + -
  • Diamonds (1) + -
  • Dwarfs (1) + -
  • Escaped prisoners (1) + -
  • Eskimos (1) + -
  • Frigates (1) + -
  • Hawaiians (1) + -
  • History (1) + -
  • Inventors (1) + -
  • Investigation (1) + -
  • Islands (1) + -
  • Lighthouses (1) + -
  • Menageries (1) + -
  • Mental illness (1) + -
  • Missing persons (1) + -
  • New Zealanders (1) + -
  • Penal colonies (1) + -
  • Priests (1) + -
  • Sailors (1) + -
  • Shark attacks (1) + -
  • Slave traders (1) + -
  • Tornadoes (1) + -
  • Volcanoes (1) + -
  • Warships (1) + -
  • Waterspouts (1) + -
  • Wreckers (Plunderers of ships) (1) + -
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Character

  • United States. Navy (2) + -

Place

  • South Pacific Ocean (4) + -
  • New Bedford (Mass.) (3) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (Brazil) (2) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (North America) (2) + -
  • Hawaii (2) + -
  • Mexico, Gulf of (2) + -
  • Pacific Ocean (2) + -
  • Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) (2) + -
  • West Indies (2) + -
  • Aleutian Islands (Alaska) (1) + -
  • Arctic Ocean (1) + -
  • Australia (1) + -
  • Bahamas (1) + -
  • Cincinnati (Ohio) (1) + -
  • Faial Island (Azores) (1) + -
  • Fiji (1) + -
  • Japan, Sea of (1) + -
  • Kamchatskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) (1) + -
  • Kentucky (1) + -
  • Mediterranean Sea (1) + -
  • Mozambique (1) + -
  • New Orleans (La.) (1) + -
  • Okhotsk, Sea of (1) + -
  • Ozark Mountains (1) + -
  • Pacific Coast (North America) (1) + -
  • Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1) + -
  • United States (1) + -
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Format

  • Dime novels (20) + -
  • Nickel weeklies (9) + -

Collection

  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (21) + -
  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (8) + -

Query

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  • (-) = Starbuck, Roger, 1837-

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Adrift in a haunted lake, or, The mystery of a lost war-ship
The lost gold raft, or, A perilous cruise for a floating treasure
Afloat in a tiger's den, a or, The wreck of the menagerie ship
The phantom light-house, or, The mystery of the storm coast
A ship on wheels, or, The wonder of Hurricane Coast
The mysterious light-ship, or, The smugglers of the death-coast
The boy wrecker, or, The young pilot of the breakers
The mystery of the fire-ship, or, A brave boy sailing-master
The rival rovers, or, The flying wake
The golden harpoon, or, Lost among the floes
The ice-fiend, or, The hunted whalemen
The Blue Clipper, or, The smuggler spy
The specter skipper, or, The sunken will
Shadow Jack, or, The spotted cruiser
The blue anchor, or, The lost bride
Sheet-Anchor Tom, or, The sunken treasure
The island bride, or, Cast away
The lost ship, or, The cruise for a shadow
Overboard, or, The double cruise
The mad skipper, or, A cruise after the maelstrom
Cast away, or, The island bride
The young diamond-hunter
On the deep, or, The missionary's daughter
The Blue Clipper, or, The smuggler spy
Sheet-Anchor Tom, or, The sunken treasure
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