The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Frank V. Webster

at one point the author makes a note that his readers are aware of a certain location being on the lower east side or something to that effect.

Everything in this book is authentic and true to the time period. So when I ran across this book (free on kindle) I jumped at the chance to read it and was automatically hooked because:ġ) this was published in 1909- ten years after the strike in 1899. To start, I'm a HUGE fan of Newsies and not just the show and Disney film, but everything about that era, the newsboy strike, the day to day life, the entertainment, the fashion. Saalfield issued groups of 3 Webster Series in slipcased gift editions.īooks marked pg are available in free digital editions on Project Gutenberg.Where to even begin? This book was a ride of ups and downs- of times I was literally gushing and then times when I wanted to scream at my phone. Slightly larger textured composition binding, plain cover. Same as 1 but all black ink, DJs in full color.Ĭloth binding like 2 but in several colors, same DJs as 2 but cheap paper. Later DJs on white coated paper, pictorial illustration in color, different for each book. Some DJs in this format have additional colors. Illustrations: (1-20) frontispiece and 3 illustrations on plain paper (21-25) frontispiece only on coated paper.ĭust Jackets: Powder blue or white coated paper, line pictoral in dark blue ink, same illustration as book cover. Rogers (18-25)Ĭream colored cloth binding, black lettering pictorial front & spine in different colors. Illustrators: Charles Nuttall (1-12) Richards (13-15) H. Publishers: 1909-1915 Cupples & Leon (1-25) Reprinted in 1938 by Saalfield Publishing Co. All the stories are in the public domain and some are available for free on Project Gutenberg and in low priced (often free for Kindle) reprint editions available from. The Newsboy Partners) who are conspiring against him. Bob Chester's Grit) or 'enemy boys' (e.g. Typically, the hero is a poor boy, often an orphan, who must fend for himself, thwarted by evil adults (e.g. The stories' settings are varied, but can generally be described as Algeresque. Webster is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym. The books have no common characters or settings.

The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Frank V. Webster