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. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 30, [2] pp. Text double column. Adverts last 2 pages. Partially unopened. 11-1/4" x 7-7/8" 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. Wear to spine fold. Some foxing & browning. A VG copy.

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