FIELD NOTES QE Dime Novel 2-Pack

Field Notes’ Fall 2017 edition was inspired circa 1860 in New York City, and by a pair of brothers: Erastus and Irwin Beadle. The Beadles had published a variety of inexpensive paperback books on subjects ranging from the tax code to baseball, but when they released Ann S. Stephens frontier tale Malaeska as the first of their orange-covered Dime Novel series, it sold more than sixty thousand copies and started a trend for cheap pocket-sized genre fiction. Beadles Dime Novels eventually topped 300 titles, each selling 3580,000 copies, and inspired countless other publishers to imitate (or often steal outright) the Dime Novels format, style, characters, and content. Along with imitators came an epic brotherly feud and a long series of lawsuits. Its a complicated story, but in the end, a fair argument can be made that the Beadles created the mass-market American paperback. The format and construction of the Dime Novel Edition is all-new. Theyre 4″ 6″, right between the Memo Book and Note Book sizes. The 100# French Paper Co. Construction Safety Orange cover is far more durable than what was used on the original Dime Novels, and the Natural White Strathmore Premium 70# youll find inside is the highest-quality body paper they’ve used in any Field Notes edition ever. The 72 body pages are Smyth-sewn in three, 24-page signatures with Coats Dual-Duty thread, then securely glued into the cover. Aside from a black-and-white engraving of an Adams Power Press from the mid-1800s on the first page, and page numbers (the Beadles tended to skip a few page numbers in the front to make sure they ended up with a 100-page book), they’ve left the pages blank so you can write or sketch your own tales of mystery, romance, and adventure on the luxurious wove-finish Strathmore paper.

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