Nick Carter Library No. 7. Old Thunderbolt, Locomotive; or, The Package in the Midnight Mail. September 19, 1891

(Pulp Fiction - Detective Magazines) NICK CARTER LIBRARY NO. 7. OLD THUNDERBOLT, LOCOMOTIVE; OR, THE PACKAGE IN THE MIDNIGHT MAIL. SEPTEMBER 19, 1891; by the Author of "Nick Carter." New York: Street & Smith, Publishers, September 19, 1891. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 11-7/8" x 8-1/2". 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 pistol wielding villain threatening the life of a locomotive fireman if the villain's demands are not met to front wrapper, and the concluding text of the story and an advertisement from the publisher to back wrapper with 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.; pages are age-tanned; most pages are unopened. Nick Carter, the fictional detective, began as a dime novel private eye in 1886. Credit for creating the charac