Selections from Beadle's American Library - Volume II. [Includes Indian Jim; The Hunter's Escape; The Riflemen of the Miami; The Hunter's Cabin; Oonomoo ]

London: Beadle, Routledge. Very Good. (1864-65). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 549 pages; Contents clean and complete in contemporary binding of black half calf over pebbled boards, marbled endpapers, four raised bands and gilet lettering and decorative stamping at spine. Leather rubbed at corners and spine Small printed booksellers tag at bottom of front pastedown: "This book was supplied by / Edward Baker, / 14 & 16 John Bright Street..."Quite scarce anthology of five American Indian stories by Edward Sylvester Ellis, originally published individually as issues of Beadle's Dime Novels. Contents includes the following five novels (original Beadle's Dime Novel number): Indian Jim - A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre (No. 67), Beadle, London (1864). OCLC 560100546; 100 pp. Engraved frontispiece: Indian Jim and two white men hunting in tall grass. The Hunter's Escape - A Tale of the North-West in 1862 (No. 50), Routledge, London (1864). OCLC 4321448 ; 100 pp. Engraved frontispiece: Indian and two white men fighting. The Riflemen of the Miami (No. 18), Routledge, London (1865). OCLC 457568671; 118 pp. Engraved titlepage: Frontiersman and young girl fleeing Indians. The Hunter's Cabin - An Episode of the Early Settlements of Southern Ohio (No. 20), Routledge, London, (1865). OCLC 457568632 ; 117 pp. Engraved frontispiece: Oonomoo and white settler family. Oonomoo, the Huron (No. 48), Beadle, London (1863). OCLC 505142843; 114 pp. Engraved illustration by Nathaniel Orr : Oonomoo protecting a white woman from attack. Indian Jim deals fictionally with the atrocities of the Dakota War of 1862. Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840–1916) was an American author, teacher, school administrator, and journalist, who wrote hundreds of books and magazine articles published under his own name and also more than a dozen differen pen names. Many were issued in the early dime novel format published by Beadle and Adams. .