There is also a collection of modern juvenile books , including runs of the Newbery and Caldecott medal winners, and Russian children's books published between the two world wars. There are more comprehensive collections of Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson , and Arthur Rimbaud , for example, and the Edwin S. Shneidman and David W. Shneidman Collection of Herman Melville , which contains most of the first editions as well as Melville biographies and books on whaling. The strength of the literary collections of this period is British, anchored in the Michael Sadleir Collection which the university acquired en bloc in 1951. The collection is housed in the Bradford A. Booth Memorial Room and includes first editions of Jane Austen, R. D. Blackmore, Rhoda Broughton, Fanny Burney, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Theodore Edward Hook, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Captain Marryat, Anthony Trollope , and Mrs. Humphry Ward . Among published materials are many important publishers' series of the period and a comprehensive gathering of the cheaply published yellowbacks , the counterparts of modern paperback novels.
Many single manuscripts support the printed collection.
The department also holds part of the archive of the firm of Richard Bentley , publisher of many of the authors in Sadleir. There is a collection of books of the Tauchnitz Edition , the first paperback line, which was sold at European railroad stations, followed by yellowback thrillers, dime novels, pulp magazines , and the paperback . Examples of longer runs include Black Mask, Dime Detective Magazine, Weird Tales, and Wild West Magazine . The department holds the Nitka Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction and a collection of first issues of comic books . There are the papers of Michael Nava , whose detective fiction takes its roots from Chandler and Joseph Hansen.