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M.J. Ivers & Co.
A lively New York publisher from the dime-novel era, this firm helped put cheap, fast-moving popular reading into countless hands. Its books and pamphlets ranged from recitations and joke collections to frontier adventures and detective stories.
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M. J. Ivers & Co. was a New York publishing house rather than a single writer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Archival records describe the firm as a producer of inexpensive popular books, including series such as Beadle's Dime Dialogues, Dime Speakers, Dime Hand Books, Boy's Library, and the Deadwood Dick Library.
The company operated from 379 Pearl Street in New York, and surviving publications show James Sullivan as proprietor. After the breakup of Beadle and Adams in 1898, Sullivan acquired important parts of that catalog, which helped M. J. Ivers & Co. continue and reissue well-known dime-fiction lines for a broad readership.
Because M. J. Ivers & Co. was a firm, not an individual author, there is no confirmed portrait for the name itself. The image provided here is of Erastus Flavel Beadle, a key earlier figure in the dime-novel world closely connected to the publishing tradition that Ivers later carried forward.