Friday 24 July 2020

Star Weekly Novel Part I

The Star Weekly Complete Novel was published, as best I can determine, every week for 36 years from 1938 to 1973. That is about 1875 issues. The novel was part of the Star Weekly insert that Canadians saw every Saturday if they bought the Toronto Star. Usually 16 pages (15 1/2"x11") with around 40,000 words. There were a number of two part novels so I estimate around 1550-1600 titles were published.

I recently bought a few of these including Maysie Greig's That Girl in Nice, published on August 1, 1953. This was months ahead of the book, published by Wm. Collins (London, 1954). The Canadian White Circle paperback imprint was no longer around in 1953 but from 1946 to 1949 there were 12 Grieg novels published.

The artist is American Marland Stone (1895-1975).

Star Weekly Novel August 1, 1953

Star Weekly Novel August 1, 1953 back cover

White Circle 260 - 1946

White Circle 280 - 1946

White Circle 312 - 1947

White Circle 321 - 1947

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