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M.J. Ivers & Co.

Best known as a New York publishing house rather than a single writer, this name is closely tied to the lively world of dime novels and inexpensive popular books. Its editions helped bring dramatic, fast-moving reading to a wide audience around the turn of the twentieth century.

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Catalogue of Standard Recitations, Numbers 19-34

Catalogue of Standard Recitations, Numbers 19-34

by M.J. Ivers & Co.

About the author

M.J. Ivers & Co. was a New York–based publishing firm, not an individual author. Archival and library records describe it as a publisher of inexpensive popular books, including series such as Beadle's Dime Dialogues, Dime Speakers, Dime Hand Books, Boy's Library, and Deadwood Dick Library.

The company is especially associated with the period after the breakup of Beadle and Adams in 1898. Records from the University of Rochester note that James Sullivan, owner of M.J. Ivers and Company, acquired Beadle's dime and half-dime novel stock and continued issuing those titles as monthlies under the Beadle and Adams name until 1905.

Because this is a company name, biographical details are limited compared with a single person. What stands out is its role in cheap, accessible publishing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, helping circulate entertainment, recitations, and popular fiction to mass readers.