Author: [Dime Novel]. 'By a Self-Made Man'
Title: The LADDER Of FAME; or, From Office Boy to Senator. Fame and Fortune Weekly. No. 514. June 12, 1915
Description: New York: Frank Tousey, 1915. Early, if not first, printing thus. Printed paper wrappers, stapled. Color pictorial to front wrapper. 30, [2] pp. Text double column. Adverts last 2 pages. Partially unopened. 11-1/4" x 7-7/8". Wear to spine fold. Some foxing & browning. A VG copy. A series that usually features Wall Street, with boys making fortunes after beginning as a runner, messenger, whathaveyou. Rear advert lists through #516 in the series, though Bragin notes only 488 original titles before Tousey began recycling, to total 1193 issues (cf. Bragin, p. 23). This title not listed on OCLC.

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