The Webster Series
by Frank V. Webster

The books have no common characters or settings. Frank V. Webster is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym. Actual writers include Howard Garis, St. George Rathbone, J.W. Lincoln, and Weldon J. Cobb. The stories' settings are varied, but can generally be described as Algeresque. Typically, the hero is a poor boy, often an orphan, who must fend for himself, thwarted by evil adults (e.g. Bob Chester's Grit) or "enemy boys" (e.g. The Newsboy Partners) who are conspiring against him. All the stories are in the public domain and some are available for free on Project Gutenberg and in low priced (often free for Kindle) reprint editions available from Amazon.com.

Publishers: 1909-1915 Cupples & Leon (1-25); Reprinted in 1938 by Saalfield Publishing Co. (4-6, 9-13, 16, 19, 23, 25)

Illustrators: Charles Nuttall (1-12); Richards (13-15); H. Richards Boehm (16-17); Walter S. Rogers (18-25)

Publishing Information
1) Cupples & Leon (1-25)
Cream colored cloth binding, black lettering; pictorial front & spine in different colors.
Illustrations: (1-20) frontispiece and 3 illustrations on plain paper; (21-25) frontispiece only on coated paper.
Dust Jackets: Powder blue or white coated paper, line pictoral in dark blue ink, same illustration as book cover. Some DJs in this format have additional colors. Later DJs on white coated paper, pictorial illustration in color, different for each book.
2) Cupples & Leon (1-25)
Same as 1 but all black ink, DJs in full color.
3) Saalfield (all)
Cloth binding like 2 but in several colors, same DJs as 2 but cheap paper.
4) Saalfield (some)
Slightly larger textured composition binding, plain cover.
Saalfield issued groups of 3 Webster Series in slipcased gift editions.