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The New Dime Novel Series introduced color covers but reprinted stories from the original series. In 1874, Beadle & Adams added the novelty of color to the covers when their New Dime Novels series replaced the flagship title.
The American Women's Dime Novel Project features women's romantic dime novel fiction from 1890 to 1920 with cover art, publisher overviews, author bios, and digitized primary materials.
Dime Novels. The first dime novels were pamphlet-bound 4” x 6” booklets with approximately 100 pages, wrapped in burnt orange paper covers that often featured sensational illustrations.
This collection contains dime novels, nickel weeklies, reprint libraries (some of which contain both fiction and non-fiction but are collected here), and related popular fiction titles from the dime novel era (1860-1915).
Typical "Yellow-backs" numbered 321, and New Dime Novels, with "illuminated" covers, 310 more. The history of the beginning of the series is given in Part II of this book under "Year 1860."
He defines dime novels as “lurid literature” – of the West, detectives, bandits, etc. – peculiarly American – with lurid cover illustrations.” Dime Novels for Women Although it is true that “lurid” literature of the West made up the majority of the dime novels published, particularly in the first decade of cheap fiction ...
The caricatures on the covers of these dime novels show immigrants, Indigenous, and Black Americans as violent murderers and thieves or ignorant fools. They are most often written as antagonists for or servants to the White protagonist of the dime novel.
