Lines from the Library

Time for another entry in the panorama of Totally Forgotten Novelists of Fales. Today's subject is one Frank R. Stockton. He wrote this book:

and about fifty others. Fales currently has 61 titles by Stockton, but some of these are different editions of the same title. You can find them all in BobCat.

I stumbled across Stockton in my investigations of early science fiction in the Fales stacks. We have both The Great Stone of Sardis (1898) and The Great War Syndicate (1889), two of Stockton's widely-imitated forays into science fiction. I particularly like this copy of The Great Stone of Sardis because it satisfies both my interest in 19th-century decorative bindings and my growing interest in early sci-fi.

Just so I can say I posted two entries in the month of April, here are some random Dime Novel covers:

As with many items from the Levy Dime Novel Collection, I'm not entirely sure these qualify as "dime novels" -- they're both novelizations of popular plays. But with covers like these, who wants to split hairs?