
Nick Carter Library No. 151. The Stolen Race-Horse; or, Nick Carter's Great Play for the Fairview Stakes. June 23, 1894
(Pulp Fiction - Detective Magazines) NICK CARTER LIBRARY NO. 151. THE STOLEN RACE-HORSE; OR, NICK CARTER'S GREAT PLAY FOR THE FAIRVIEW STAKES. JUNE 23, 1894; by the Author of "Nick Carter." New York: Street & Smith, Publishers, June 23, 1894. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 11-7/8" x 8-9/16". Staple bound pictorial cheap wood pulp paper self wrappers printed in black with a masthead featuring seven different portraits of "Nick Carter in Various Disguises" and a large drawing of a horse race in mid-action, with the lead horse just having veered off course (literally) and plunging full-speed through the racetrack's fencing, throwing his rider sprawling head-over-heels to front wrapper, and publisher's advertisements to back wrapper, with very minor fraying to the edges and age-tanned paper for what is a very nice copy of what is a rare survival of a 19th century pulp magazine. 16 pp.; with age-tanned pages, most of which remain unopened; one page opened a bit roughly. Nick Carter, the fictional