tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32333334705156562052024-03-29T11:10:13.792-03:00Fly-by-nightCanadian paperbacks of the 40s and 50sbowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.comBlogger659125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-30475858915129136632024-03-28T12:18:00.001-03:002024-03-28T12:18:28.679-03:00Newspaper Novels Part IV<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2024/03/newspaper-novels-part-iii.html">Part III</a> discussed my estimate of the surprising number of copies of novels that were published by <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> as Sunday inserts over 14 years - 700 million. I use an estimate of 1,000,000 average circulation for the Sunday edition to arrive at that figure. This is based on actual figures that range from 1.035 million in 1938 to 1.093 million in 1947.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have identified 430 of the estimated 700 <i>Inquirer</i> issues. There are 295 authors in that group with Georges Simenon first with 19 titles and Ben Ames Williams and Faith Baldwin second with five. How many of these authors are around (i.e. in print) today? Simenon certainly is - all 75 of his Maigret novels are available from Penguin. Rex Stout, Stefan Zweig, Agatha Christie and F. Scott Fitzgerald (<i>The Great Gatsby</i> - May 23, 1937) are four </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">more obvious ones. It takes some research to find others. I would guess a few dozen at most.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are three authors who are among the roughly 270 forgotten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">October 12, 1941 -<i> Our Second Murder </i>by Torrey Chanslor (Frederick A. Stokes, 1941)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">May 11, 1941 -<i> Little Hercules </i>by Francis Wallace (M. S. Mill, 1939)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">August 24 1941 -<i> Hometown Angel </i>by Reita Lambert (Macrae-Smith, 1940)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGhxcdOfKvLtwbwo3ti9UOffaaZEoP9iRZeKgSU43uxmYg7Mc-a4wLECLXvt8QhUUUg40wmtXKb1XmFfBb3nuNIUNoL4E2jHmGqBLA74Mi9Yq0o5-VGHryYncH8An8U_ST8nCzm_D2pb3r9jiO_xzej80AFy2m6fDTInAlmtjIXa-y1mh2dMByLgqpIw/s4152/InquirerOc121941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4152" data-original-width="3160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGhxcdOfKvLtwbwo3ti9UOffaaZEoP9iRZeKgSU43uxmYg7Mc-a4wLECLXvt8QhUUUg40wmtXKb1XmFfBb3nuNIUNoL4E2jHmGqBLA74Mi9Yq0o5-VGHryYncH8An8U_ST8nCzm_D2pb3r9jiO_xzej80AFy2m6fDTInAlmtjIXa-y1mh2dMByLgqpIw/s320/InquirerOc121941.jpg" width="244" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer - October 12, 1941</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxLfC64nM1r_d2Nctb68_LAqluFehRvgAEexFPOiyuI2NnsivO_OeluxAVjQZD3UcDb3dgnyRlwT2Az8lUc3joToXsw1qrQDIpwQrtpPs5KA-3YUaPb7uAPzqlfMpx20Dku2v-ocbt4CWZ1Wor2fQjq6PdEq_2Wik7SzB9JMuKz8nzdBu4CbdNHJuCRI/s4131/InquirerMay111941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4131" data-original-width="3174" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxLfC64nM1r_d2Nctb68_LAqluFehRvgAEexFPOiyuI2NnsivO_OeluxAVjQZD3UcDb3dgnyRlwT2Az8lUc3joToXsw1qrQDIpwQrtpPs5KA-3YUaPb7uAPzqlfMpx20Dku2v-ocbt4CWZ1Wor2fQjq6PdEq_2Wik7SzB9JMuKz8nzdBu4CbdNHJuCRI/s320/InquirerMay111941.jpg" width="246" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer - May 11, 1941</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15Iiu8lj1pYU-N5HjiHYR4hM2hQ9dVlCZJX-nvVaGdKEm5kBF_yAxVhyZPxt22hIqYSUfjEy8FoBt0iy7PA9CVi4F55XFf8elcIajVGnp7FpIWSSNwsbo4dZhLTVqMvhOZrC1swOUnWNX38D-glvJ4u2udVKTqZZk9cfMKs6CW7XXhcqqlOaNuczV3lM/s4148/InquirerAug241941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4148" data-original-width="3160" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15Iiu8lj1pYU-N5HjiHYR4hM2hQ9dVlCZJX-nvVaGdKEm5kBF_yAxVhyZPxt22hIqYSUfjEy8FoBt0iy7PA9CVi4F55XFf8elcIajVGnp7FpIWSSNwsbo4dZhLTVqMvhOZrC1swOUnWNX38D-glvJ4u2udVKTqZZk9cfMKs6CW7XXhcqqlOaNuczV3lM/s320/InquirerAug241941.jpg" width="244" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 24, 1941</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-38129242601112448632024-03-25T13:57:00.001-03:002024-03-25T13:57:52.004-03:00Newspaper Novels Part III<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Continuing the story from <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2024/03/newspaper-novels-part-ii.html">part II</a> here are three more weekly newspaper novel supplements from <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, all from August 1941.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Inquirer</i> (1829-), as far as I can tell, published the Gold Seal Novels on Sunday from May 1934 to September 1949 with no issues from May 1946 to April 1948 - approximately 700 issues. I have been able to identify 430 of them. During these years Sunday circulation was likely averaging close to a million copies per week, again, based on what I can find on line. This means around 700 million copies of the novels were sold by this one newspaper alone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What was the impact of this on the publishing world? For example, what were the royalty terms for the publisher/author and what did booksellers think of this competition? I can find no answers to these and other questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">August 3, 1941 -<i> Sinfully Rich </i>by Hulbert Footner (Harper and Brothers, 1940)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">August 17, 1941 -<i> A Face For a Clue </i>by Georges Simenon (Artheme Fayard, 1931 as <i>Le chien jaune</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">August 31, 1941 -<i> Mooney Moves Around </i>by Kerry O'Neil (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAECMr0tnqSkcuQZCC3-sKkLPblCTr7Q8_AZKN0gryOvCyO1vWCg6ASNLNgNc5qTpGX4cKBY-dZt9I6HyHa0OMRMCP-TpRCfHl1zLU-_8X4uNhfREW5Qp_gKDbx9Mm3nUGfTsNyo23F12xwH9x_RtgRj-Pgw2dep-qA9Iyu4DHdyxS2oaqDbTrjorG4nQ/s4130/InquirerAug31941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4130" data-original-width="3147" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAECMr0tnqSkcuQZCC3-sKkLPblCTr7Q8_AZKN0gryOvCyO1vWCg6ASNLNgNc5qTpGX4cKBY-dZt9I6HyHa0OMRMCP-TpRCfHl1zLU-_8X4uNhfREW5Qp_gKDbx9Mm3nUGfTsNyo23F12xwH9x_RtgRj-Pgw2dep-qA9Iyu4DHdyxS2oaqDbTrjorG4nQ/s320/InquirerAug31941.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Philadelphia Inquirer - August 3, 1941</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcY9uW03vvMu1Up74j4npBJpGsj17s6WES-0utogf1YS5P5z0cckZZpoEOuioWns4_dEWF4BY-c7cWo_A9ok8hyRrXXgY1r3OggPRdCvetNn5Wp5aUeZ67VdPb8o6AdF_PDbE4OjVMSCU0U5gZVjYs8r6gUxkjlW5hyB4Mw2BJA2os7Cj_JCnbNJAb_Y/s4136/InquirerAug171941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4136" data-original-width="3177" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcY9uW03vvMu1Up74j4npBJpGsj17s6WES-0utogf1YS5P5z0cckZZpoEOuioWns4_dEWF4BY-c7cWo_A9ok8hyRrXXgY1r3OggPRdCvetNn5Wp5aUeZ67VdPb8o6AdF_PDbE4OjVMSCU0U5gZVjYs8r6gUxkjlW5hyB4Mw2BJA2os7Cj_JCnbNJAb_Y/s320/InquirerAug171941.jpg" width="246" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Philadelphia Inquirer - August 17, 1941</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQ1QQrwfWS4qflM_Gp0FScJxHzs6KOSQPwT0K8fzP2C-1Pwo3z4mKM3nMUfCEgKXUo6HtcT5wTRClEH8GqlmSQfn4XSyS4lJf9UXsnSDyNErUfl2ZzK24QLnTxnjL-juVEfS-JTN5EgRRn9KExFtB5Q_pRyehdbMc_ycvmtHPsOjWyLUzCUiKLj78zak/s4227/InquirerAug311941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4227" data-original-width="3153" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQ1QQrwfWS4qflM_Gp0FScJxHzs6KOSQPwT0K8fzP2C-1Pwo3z4mKM3nMUfCEgKXUo6HtcT5wTRClEH8GqlmSQfn4XSyS4lJf9UXsnSDyNErUfl2ZzK24QLnTxnjL-juVEfS-JTN5EgRRn9KExFtB5Q_pRyehdbMc_ycvmtHPsOjWyLUzCUiKLj78zak/s320/InquirerAug311941.jpg" width="239" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Philadelphia Inquirer - August 31, 1941</span></div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-30661053792847018992024-03-23T13:54:00.002-03:002024-03-25T14:31:13.894-03:00Newspaper Novels Part II<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2023/08/newspaper-novels-part-i.html">part I</a> I introduced mid-century weekly novel newspaper inserts. I recently picked up 40 examples from <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> who published around 700 from 1934 to 1949. Unlike some of their US competitors who used Canadian produced supplements the <i>Inquirer's </i>were unique. Here is one example - Georges Simenon's <i>A Crime in Holland</i> from November 30, 1941.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The insert is 20 pages (including front and back covers) with the cover and internal illustrations by Ben Dale (1889-1951) and an advertisement on the last page. The novel is quite short yet approximately 29% abridged for the insert. The dimensions are 27 1/2mm (10 7/8") x 36mm (14 1/4").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Simenon (1903-1989) was the most popular <i>Inquirer </i>author with at least 20 novels.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsR82llnshahWJF7w-N-lRFQ7e2vAaLvA0ubQp651q0wnSGUxiX4AK8Cl6k652TMzH5HW6ykPdCjld7wE4nveUUNpqbjMnGRhJWalshD8FRJxG6-d1bXcfWtWoV7XXSLvX-awmaQbn2glhwvtLYBwI8flWTJx_ATzuKB_6y2Xy868L4vSazSrc5JkBJNE/s4135/InquirerSimeonHolland.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4135" data-original-width="3193" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsR82llnshahWJF7w-N-lRFQ7e2vAaLvA0ubQp651q0wnSGUxiX4AK8Cl6k652TMzH5HW6ykPdCjld7wE4nveUUNpqbjMnGRhJWalshD8FRJxG6-d1bXcfWtWoV7XXSLvX-awmaQbn2glhwvtLYBwI8flWTJx_ATzuKB_6y2Xy868L4vSazSrc5JkBJNE/s320/InquirerSimeonHolland.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelpia Inquirer - November 30, 1941</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-88573131388960596842024-01-27T13:35:00.005-04:002024-01-27T13:42:25.133-04:00Avon Books in Canada Part III<span style="font-family: verdana;">In <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2024/01/avon-books-in-canada-part-ii.html">part II</a> I introduced a short-lived (1952-3) series of paperbacks from Avon Canada. Here's more about them.<br /><br />The early numbers (at least to C762) in the series do not have a price on the covers. Later books have the price (35 cents) on both covers. All titles have “Printed in Canada” on the back cover and the copyright page. The Canadian subsidiary of American News Corporation (<a href="https://www.hullmark.ca/474-wellington">474 Wellington Street West</a> in Toronto), the owner of Avon, is the distributor. The number on all books is on </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the top left front cover and lower spine.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAgLerl63VClnOyAkuYhRmxVDr8XAwxQJvncyIDQ_6KwV6eWnBPB1gWON_b54qM79DJ_t007ft-uWrTHoxi7-iWejnrJ1hIaDL8MrI_rFK87t2kMBuA-eVGRE2vtNoI-BPsHXCBsFtIPwzA0dILh3VsDzzNXHipJ_5UBKHwSOGaEr5nR4M1nbNL5AO6o/s1897/AvonCanC788.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1897" data-original-width="1253" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAgLerl63VClnOyAkuYhRmxVDr8XAwxQJvncyIDQ_6KwV6eWnBPB1gWON_b54qM79DJ_t007ft-uWrTHoxi7-iWejnrJ1hIaDL8MrI_rFK87t2kMBuA-eVGRE2vtNoI-BPsHXCBsFtIPwzA0dILh3VsDzzNXHipJ_5UBKHwSOGaEr5nR4M1nbNL5AO6o/s320/AvonCanC788.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C788</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 467)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Gb8kY4oWoCTzIdOPf8da4WkUEmd51iZ9wcaAbtVE-SL2IpDQAnkXNbGB1csIVyABmIQ76DF_f6qbFdBFpkUHkK0slRkrjLFPeaNhzUXHYzaQgZ7egOI3H2xKkLA4TStUVZ8UTpbDaXFONh0Uo-AaHOUYg7EolkXzXnuin1x4rwWc2FI5Bj5n85ib86U/s1897/AvonCanC788.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1897" data-original-width="1253" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Gb8kY4oWoCTzIdOPf8da4WkUEmd51iZ9wcaAbtVE-SL2IpDQAnkXNbGB1csIVyABmIQ76DF_f6qbFdBFpkUHkK0slRkrjLFPeaNhzUXHYzaQgZ7egOI3H2xKkLA4TStUVZ8UTpbDaXFONh0Uo-AaHOUYg7EolkXzXnuin1x4rwWc2FI5Bj5n85ib86U/s320/AvonCanC788.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C798 - May 1953</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 504)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWYgdH0oWSuLL4VF5FLS4GFxxtDjpOdd-fwadj6TyjVs76hCFILtsnKrYQVIzCBp2mRoALpRdHKJxkaKQeHPSXVrV4tVK11fYcCMssKVUiSeaO01B1B-YAnQcYH0TFtt9hYIu_U7bWb3LSxzbRKraSpNwF4HoPAxbN_lkCbM7mznyIXARxE59n1O-u0E/s1904/AvonCanC788%20back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="1251" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWYgdH0oWSuLL4VF5FLS4GFxxtDjpOdd-fwadj6TyjVs76hCFILtsnKrYQVIzCBp2mRoALpRdHKJxkaKQeHPSXVrV4tVK11fYcCMssKVUiSeaO01B1B-YAnQcYH0TFtt9hYIu_U7bWb3LSxzbRKraSpNwF4HoPAxbN_lkCbM7mznyIXARxE59n1O-u0E/s320/AvonCanC788%20back.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C798 back</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-40620322966070438522024-01-22T20:50:00.000-04:002024-01-22T20:50:02.067-04:00Avon Books in Canada Part II<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2022/11/avon-books-in-canada-part-i.html">Part I</a> described the introduction of Avon paperbacks into Canada in late 1941. Here I'll skip ahead a decade to a short lived series of Avon titles that were renumbered for the Canadian market. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are 62 titles starting at C751 and ending at C812, 57 of which I have identified. Most have no print date but the few I've seen that do are spring 1953. I'm guessing the series ran from 1952 to 1953. They sold for 35 cents.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The US numbers range from 300 to 526. There are also four titles from Avon's Eton subsidiary in the series.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are a few examples.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Pu-5TdTkg06zWhEf7rYFG8wuS47f4M9s7deilIvkNke40j_wooTZLPix78evS7z7Fuh52fcLpzS27oDRyzdrKMA5paI8MBcdfY00oPFp_dZBPADAIOqYU2Pyxo26NxilXMJsAZafd2_nF_3_nNE8Rts4W1bE7LMiv34ErZa6Jt58a_ujC6ALmn0_ER0/s1897/AvonCanC757.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1897" data-original-width="1227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Pu-5TdTkg06zWhEf7rYFG8wuS47f4M9s7deilIvkNke40j_wooTZLPix78evS7z7Fuh52fcLpzS27oDRyzdrKMA5paI8MBcdfY00oPFp_dZBPADAIOqYU2Pyxo26NxilXMJsAZafd2_nF_3_nNE8Rts4W1bE7LMiv34ErZa6Jt58a_ujC6ALmn0_ER0/s320/AvonCanC757.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C757</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 366)</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCzl8Tqo30cF475ooLehB2gUONG6ArLvJ1BQ2pcKZUIlrV1rHEsb5W75ghJuQ_LTyRQC9a5g2Q7qxEiCkQd2_fJW5OnN0i_fjdHxU9NKgxvc64aHb0S6YcDsA6YxBwq66whdzav13qZfTCwgPGeTtSrpDolR2AH4IiDwpwrZhC4yIOZPxoi4_EQnXpxdQ/s1904/AvonCanC769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="1268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCzl8Tqo30cF475ooLehB2gUONG6ArLvJ1BQ2pcKZUIlrV1rHEsb5W75ghJuQ_LTyRQC9a5g2Q7qxEiCkQd2_fJW5OnN0i_fjdHxU9NKgxvc64aHb0S6YcDsA6YxBwq66whdzav13qZfTCwgPGeTtSrpDolR2AH4IiDwpwrZhC4yIOZPxoi4_EQnXpxdQ/s320/AvonCanC769.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C769</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 474)</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaIyvORoGlmEQtWs8YhzJuwCo0nq5PHHDxG7Kzzbqc7AXq0VbujB2NVsNsxeX_nDGJ_pPu2vnOJZZwkhBPGqE6YyP7qexPMflGdBTv6crirhykCoagqFglxf487XAEw3I7rZTUj_Ty_Ut26M5TvZgjzCYIuZENsV-4GVg0j9tT-FrmvJmTeX3n9WCn30/s1895/AvonCanC775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1895" data-original-width="1246" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaIyvORoGlmEQtWs8YhzJuwCo0nq5PHHDxG7Kzzbqc7AXq0VbujB2NVsNsxeX_nDGJ_pPu2vnOJZZwkhBPGqE6YyP7qexPMflGdBTv6crirhykCoagqFglxf487XAEw3I7rZTUj_Ty_Ut26M5TvZgjzCYIuZENsV-4GVg0j9tT-FrmvJmTeX3n9WCn30/s320/AvonCanC775.jpg" width="210" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C775</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 481)</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPEHqNb-e-WUdfclXaFLZ0w3PWlK5PYWe-wn6FIdWCJ7hwq6WSItUMcwkShUbWjCTUpkOx1QgksxlopkRrn_weV3MMR_o57HOH0aPfq2klThK1F-LXDvQ3FoN7aehTi0CEvCfT_BUBl8pRR3QOt0qkkVcSw-WB4XLe3NSe-WGep3jfNE1Y-sgOfeUGjo/s1903/AvonCanC762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1903" data-original-width="1229" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPEHqNb-e-WUdfclXaFLZ0w3PWlK5PYWe-wn6FIdWCJ7hwq6WSItUMcwkShUbWjCTUpkOx1QgksxlopkRrn_weV3MMR_o57HOH0aPfq2klThK1F-LXDvQ3FoN7aehTi0CEvCfT_BUBl8pRR3QOt0qkkVcSw-WB4XLe3NSe-WGep3jfNE1Y-sgOfeUGjo/s320/AvonCanC762.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon (Canadian printing) C762</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(US printing number 455</span>)</div></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-36583459819277772882024-01-21T12:45:00.060-04:002024-01-24T20:16:26.292-04:00Heed the Thunder<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I haven't published a post about Toronto paperback publisher Export Publishing Enterprises in a while. But a couple of recent bookseller listings for one of Export's books has inspired.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Export's primary imprint was "News Stand Library". Between May 1948 and January 1951 Export published 159 News Stand titles. Number 54 is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer)">Jim Thompson's</a> <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-922890-98-9"><i>Heed the Thunder</i></a>, his second book, originally published in 1946 (New York: Greenberg).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Thompson's reputation the two listed copies are expensive - <a href="https://www.doullbooks.com/product/125262/Heed-the-Thunder-News-Stand-Library-Number-54-Paperback">here at $500CAN</a> (this bookseller happens to be a 5 minute drive from our house) and <a href="https://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=13345129357&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=tTHlYyiyyBY&utm_campaign=10&siteID=tTHlYyiyyBY-JFf2p44hdrBiR17fY_wKbA">here at $442CAN</a>. This is one of the few Export titles still in print and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">is abridged at 160 pages (the Amazon listed </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">edition in print is 352 pages). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In common with many of Export's books there are different states for the book. One has red brown inner covers and the other brown. Cover art by D. Rickard.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjG7dAgB6pzofjSJ_ZSVZVLEGg1MxN0Ls78Qa4pG835a2ZNeOrHIXRo3BVEnlUpPGqitcBBvO3aLtwfvt-qIx8pbzr7pFTdIdTzYlZg0-v67FHGNBCWHHGvJNWb2_rBztlKWB_TvjZNJbSIexLJAeVIg6cQ0YR2FHPgWwh-ICFkR5esFf48Ni0-fSu8I/s2746/NSL54.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2746" data-original-width="1658" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjG7dAgB6pzofjSJ_ZSVZVLEGg1MxN0Ls78Qa4pG835a2ZNeOrHIXRo3BVEnlUpPGqitcBBvO3aLtwfvt-qIx8pbzr7pFTdIdTzYlZg0-v67FHGNBCWHHGvJNWb2_rBztlKWB_TvjZNJbSIexLJAeVIg6cQ0YR2FHPgWwh-ICFkR5esFf48Ni0-fSu8I/s320/NSL54.jpg" width="193" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">News Stand Library 54 June 1949</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-76060317270105008322023-11-28T15:53:00.001-04:002023-11-28T15:56:07.970-04:00Whispering City<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The latest title in Montreal publisher Vehicule Press's <a href="https://www.vehiculepress.com/1-ricochet.php#:~:text=Ricochet%20Books%20is%20a%20series,Montreal%20originally%20published%20in%201951.">Ricochet</a> imprint has just been published.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><a href="https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2023/10/whispering-city-horace-browns-second.html">Whispering City</a></i> was first published in 1947 as a paperback original by Global Publishing Company in Pickering, Ontario, a city just east of Toronto. The publisher was Horace Brown who was also the author. It is a novelization of a movie which takes place in Quebec City that was released in both French and English. </span><br style="font-family: verdana;" /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The new edition has an introduction by series editor Brian Busby and the original foreword by the author. Unable to be reproduced are three photos from the movie on the inside covers and back cover. Also unseen is a "Camera Quiz" from the original edition. This is a set of 12 photos from the movie with captions and the reader is invited to put them in their correct order after reading the book.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKdh7f54AgI0lmNzWJkFt5s3z6o_B4dM8Z9XD1DotFFl-mW5qx_RaqqxG16sG9v-HRBKQdSazXr02CT_MfIdcGffKSyB2kvEA3bVHt1MQOoT8rpkQEGUylLDFQalCwr6rmYktvQ5wQ1ElgC1NJ33v8-ouj8bG5GqgBjRnc-BPg9uoVRcFoxBMEmwUT8o/s2076/WhisperingCity1947.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="1261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKdh7f54AgI0lmNzWJkFt5s3z6o_B4dM8Z9XD1DotFFl-mW5qx_RaqqxG16sG9v-HRBKQdSazXr02CT_MfIdcGffKSyB2kvEA3bVHt1MQOoT8rpkQEGUylLDFQalCwr6rmYktvQ5wQ1ElgC1NJ33v8-ouj8bG5GqgBjRnc-BPg9uoVRcFoxBMEmwUT8o/s320/WhisperingCity1947.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Global Publishing -1947</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ2BbGSukwsEuwaAbW78SE1IqzmdH5ObUMaOdQxKRh3wuvr8STXY_iDFWkCT_ReGM5Qg3UCBm4XGK67lnGvinpygQyX2Up5DzHZs5FxlGJnSbE3iWRBW7_ao3_b9EIUfGqKnwkZnCFeDVb15l91awJyw_gZUCa24De3ZaK6IqAY4DK6ODa42YmhyphenhyphenICvjY/s2076/WhisperingCity1947-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="1245" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ2BbGSukwsEuwaAbW78SE1IqzmdH5ObUMaOdQxKRh3wuvr8STXY_iDFWkCT_ReGM5Qg3UCBm4XGK67lnGvinpygQyX2Up5DzHZs5FxlGJnSbE3iWRBW7_ao3_b9EIUfGqKnwkZnCFeDVb15l91awJyw_gZUCa24De3ZaK6IqAY4DK6ODa42YmhyphenhyphenICvjY/s320/WhisperingCity1947-back.jpg" width="192" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vehicule Press - 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWZBhIxYzTSiUSTV4yf2bEUhSMrdkVfTxtU7La37qYqY54Y6QD14UY35MwhrSoRiHZtTwqcGH6C5uFrcKjuAIKQ6u9PMBDvPUDS7yxqIa-BFWuuvbz7-_J9m3pZFoLabc2h8bB0giUbAJV582az5NnFuWS4dYtf_2UamJ6-_C6SDdrHUzMVRRvkVIRhA/s2081/WhisperingCity2023-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2081" data-original-width="1252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWZBhIxYzTSiUSTV4yf2bEUhSMrdkVfTxtU7La37qYqY54Y6QD14UY35MwhrSoRiHZtTwqcGH6C5uFrcKjuAIKQ6u9PMBDvPUDS7yxqIa-BFWuuvbz7-_J9m3pZFoLabc2h8bB0giUbAJV582az5NnFuWS4dYtf_2UamJ6-_C6SDdrHUzMVRRvkVIRhA/s320/WhisperingCity2023-back.jpg" width="193" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vehicule Press - back</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-24408274544951723532023-08-07T20:34:00.002-03:002023-08-11T09:18:36.073-03:00Newspaper Novels Part I<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recently I did a series on the <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2023/06/star-weekly-novels-part-vi.html">Star Weekly Novels</a> which were published from 1938 to 1973 as inserts in the Saturday Toronto Star, one of 21 US (18) and C</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">anadian (3) newspapers with novel inserts that I've so far identified. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is very little information on these inserts on-line but I've cobbled together lists totaling 2500. An early guess is at least 12,000 were published. The dates so far are 1910/11 and 1928 to 1973. At least six US newspapers used inserts produced in Canada, just changing the newspaper name on the first page.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are three US examples. The Philadelphia Inquirer Gold Seal Novel was published at least from 1934 to 1949 and, unlike the Long Island Sunday Press, were original novel inserts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, November 2, 1941 - <i>The Affair of the Circus</i> <i>Queen</i> by Clifford Knight, illustrated by Harry Weinert</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, August 10, 1941 - <i>A World in Spell </i>by D. E. Stevenson, illustrated by Harry Weinert</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Long Island Sunday Press, Sunday, November 13, 1949 - <i>Lord of Atlantis</i> by John Russell Fearn, illustrated by William Book. First published as Toronto Star Weekly Complete Novel, October 8, 1949</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MzaCJBOcA8hR7U0Cfn8tAuDv6cKAglIQhkgMkuIFbqPua25yu_MGsDOdRxnBpZBNCNMUid5ysbnFv7U2pgH9ds8ozVpQXU9_ExAe7P7TbNDQZ4xxErAxGBEfMEgOhETm0VGNfqtVJxCMI8PWf5fjeYnMcvaJb2zd3EW4UFHFOnYtlK8_eNAjwToaI0M/s3142/PInquirer1941Nov2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3142" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MzaCJBOcA8hR7U0Cfn8tAuDv6cKAglIQhkgMkuIFbqPua25yu_MGsDOdRxnBpZBNCNMUid5ysbnFv7U2pgH9ds8ozVpQXU9_ExAe7P7TbNDQZ4xxErAxGBEfMEgOhETm0VGNfqtVJxCMI8PWf5fjeYnMcvaJb2zd3EW4UFHFOnYtlK8_eNAjwToaI0M/s320/PInquirer1941Nov2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer - November 2, 1941</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI9PfjxoO4-9kDeZzhC2cD_ElMWfk1_BIbxFrnVmgIH-4NTjCvifLQVM0OHnjNnoRdvDWGgTHgcxeg6Z9MGqO0h6C9ge8ooYpJ8dNvsfxD00508D9QvxKwfxG7T9972-S7ZF8EbTcjFM0F8Y6SwaVRVLOXVHkYRRgM_xUYUaGai-VP0Q6ibN3BigE9WM/s3121/PInquirer%201941Aug10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3121" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI9PfjxoO4-9kDeZzhC2cD_ElMWfk1_BIbxFrnVmgIH-4NTjCvifLQVM0OHnjNnoRdvDWGgTHgcxeg6Z9MGqO0h6C9ge8ooYpJ8dNvsfxD00508D9QvxKwfxG7T9972-S7ZF8EbTcjFM0F8Y6SwaVRVLOXVHkYRRgM_xUYUaGai-VP0Q6ibN3BigE9WM/s320/PInquirer%201941Aug10.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 10, 1941</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2RxMwkCqcFoPI9TblgoMAfP6UOFKPpZrAMCjfI2fDlK8ewjtGjuanx0QXVhPFm4smewK-an_gVCVDzkrsDr9GUQ0AYRlOfoQhH5-oRM0UF7Cx2nUB5EnmVLDylYKIfu1qI6XiGL4VTjkSkKdFRM897Sqtytp61f-hjzN76ZL_jV9FgzWbR5pVPSBlcM/s3142/Long%20Island1949Nov13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3142" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2RxMwkCqcFoPI9TblgoMAfP6UOFKPpZrAMCjfI2fDlK8ewjtGjuanx0QXVhPFm4smewK-an_gVCVDzkrsDr9GUQ0AYRlOfoQhH5-oRM0UF7Cx2nUB5EnmVLDylYKIfu1qI6XiGL4VTjkSkKdFRM897Sqtytp61f-hjzN76ZL_jV9FgzWbR5pVPSBlcM/s320/Long%20Island1949Nov13.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Long Island Sunday Press - November 13, 1949</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-69099807269015929102023-07-01T09:27:00.000-03:002023-07-01T09:27:36.712-03:00156 and Counting<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">The British North American Act, enacted March 29, 1867 by the British Parliament, provided for Confederation of the three British North American colonies, Canada (Upper and Lower), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Now much amended as the Constitution Act, 1867, it was proclaimed into law on July 1, 1867 and Canada was born. The first official birthday celebration was in 1868, July 1 being named Dominion Day in 1879 and Canada Day in 1982.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Novels were distributed with the Toronto Star every Saturday for 36 years. But they were not the only novel inserts in newspapers. Montreal's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_(magazine)" style="font-family: verdana;">The Standard</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> also brought novels into mid-century English language Canadian homes, competing with bookstores, commercial book clubs and the local newsstands, drug and cigar stores. Romance, crime, Westerns, historical, thrillers, all available. Here are some examples.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1mSGRcasb6V4AnfjMbkI2e0F1YTaopDQj_UItzgUVqwSC_vKXYqcfn9nFx7BPLjUKyqQfDK4FYHA6WgKHh788LGULHjXMjl6penzEtXSApm6L5vc2toOWPd54XzIrE3z_nUxO9nira6eDJ2yuPSDWljsgjW1xsLSmqTRNSY3Ar0aPh_-Vmom5go8z0k/s3128/img224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1mSGRcasb6V4AnfjMbkI2e0F1YTaopDQj_UItzgUVqwSC_vKXYqcfn9nFx7BPLjUKyqQfDK4FYHA6WgKHh788LGULHjXMjl6penzEtXSApm6L5vc2toOWPd54XzIrE3z_nUxO9nira6eDJ2yuPSDWljsgjW1xsLSmqTRNSY3Ar0aPh_-Vmom5go8z0k/s320/img224.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Standard Book of the Week - June 4, 1960</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWGGLeZc8yeb7_8GfuYKcLEIpkXA3hP43Y4HKFL0kIrxt1hSRkmyH9JAEndL71SkLOZw8U9H4LKB-T-w0sjzyZdR5GvN_CQKSOmHcRWQVBHNec9BbQ7UO70iZAptdrLb3wDaNVV4D2FVS7iZtmZbvACYRocp1zCgQc0OjvGQaLcs-Fu6gXw-zQd7Rmjc/s3128/img225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWGGLeZc8yeb7_8GfuYKcLEIpkXA3hP43Y4HKFL0kIrxt1hSRkmyH9JAEndL71SkLOZw8U9H4LKB-T-w0sjzyZdR5GvN_CQKSOmHcRWQVBHNec9BbQ7UO70iZAptdrLb3wDaNVV4D2FVS7iZtmZbvACYRocp1zCgQc0OjvGQaLcs-Fu6gXw-zQd7Rmjc/s320/img225.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Standard Book of the Week - July 26, 1947</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJQyBA0fSfZuuKjdKTpLnxDi8PX_x_poafkIYj2gtFHhxfjhg5rOjRrTCkb1Mbj7mQ10IBObhIl3zv4LmnZBFemIehawpehpDcgUuwyD92afVh8xmN1pdvqDdISKQkVSW3e-L_M-6kZfG_f6dO4EBbOYV25XPTea-Vq53g0k51_A_fLrMYuKT8k5gpec/s3128/img226.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJQyBA0fSfZuuKjdKTpLnxDi8PX_x_poafkIYj2gtFHhxfjhg5rOjRrTCkb1Mbj7mQ10IBObhIl3zv4LmnZBFemIehawpehpDcgUuwyD92afVh8xmN1pdvqDdISKQkVSW3e-L_M-6kZfG_f6dO4EBbOYV25XPTea-Vq53g0k51_A_fLrMYuKT8k5gpec/s320/img226.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Standard Book of the Week - May 10, 1947</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-53407164844906685322023-06-29T21:59:00.002-03:002023-06-29T22:01:04.364-03:00Star Weekly Novel - Part VI<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've mentioned that I estimate around 1880 Star Weekly Novels were published. This assumes they were published every week from 1938 to 1973. So far the oldest I've seen is May 1938 and latest is November 1973. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The number of titles is an estimated 1700. The reason is a number of two- and three-part novels were published from 1960 to 1973. That works out to an average 2.5 books for each of the estimated 675 authors. Here are three who are among the nearly 400 with only one book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Murder's Web</i> by Dorothy Dunn (1913-1952) who published over sixty short stories in pulps but this appears to be her only novel. First published by Harper & Row (1951).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Rendezvous on an Island</i> by Tod Claymore (1898-1964), pseudonym for Hugh Desmond Clevely. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">First published by Cassell (1957).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Black William</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Neill_(writer)">Robert Neill</a> (1905-1979). </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">First published by Hutchinson (1955).</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS8g2FEUbq1Obq2ITTsF4G8cG0PYuNREi8lcjDYbf4-YqawYeABWvaBoZeMCazUqMjw-NagiwDgpEbinC5eajGR49nJBKWEFRcI4Ss55Jbzfq87YIiSLg6uF3IiyFTK8BsOg-yf-aSa26eCALDJprImv5yLc45UYIyIDxTstDCGE9Y2Uc0BwZg6L0aRgE/s3128/img200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS8g2FEUbq1Obq2ITTsF4G8cG0PYuNREi8lcjDYbf4-YqawYeABWvaBoZeMCazUqMjw-NagiwDgpEbinC5eajGR49nJBKWEFRcI4Ss55Jbzfq87YIiSLg6uF3IiyFTK8BsOg-yf-aSa26eCALDJprImv5yLc45UYIyIDxTstDCGE9Y2Uc0BwZg6L0aRgE/s320/img200.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Novel - August 26, 1950</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yGai43CbGq02Fp7ljYCpCUJ-MVtci4Tsc4vEzcUPdLzhVQ-ecXw1bvdx0JNQgcFiHO-6tQXS779EX8CAT2QD3MvOYeY1bCX0o0zU9QxLf2PQASf60r0Ygrzg64wiNMv0u8XjCfVmVvseSOG2lCMxMfscc8gMXTkCWBG5PJbKApDfjLXGUl5PVGnKMSY/s3128/img217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yGai43CbGq02Fp7ljYCpCUJ-MVtci4Tsc4vEzcUPdLzhVQ-ecXw1bvdx0JNQgcFiHO-6tQXS779EX8CAT2QD3MvOYeY1bCX0o0zU9QxLf2PQASf60r0Ygrzg64wiNMv0u8XjCfVmVvseSOG2lCMxMfscc8gMXTkCWBG5PJbKApDfjLXGUl5PVGnKMSY/s320/img217.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Novel - August 20, 1955</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRGi027GtOWj_tvDaS7WifHTIRNCZdG8gL6PiFFAOmybO4r5SVZef9OF5XfOyH2p7xnjB98T4a1-KNEjI2RPxEFE7LUAKCAaLdE_LJraeB-XGw9Z0fGsKQYKJwsUTW2yxlCiya0mxzwwA57deU-9hGTlo7kObE6JBSIrMVOdLtRzzA2HOaJlgICB5tvM/s3128/img223.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRGi027GtOWj_tvDaS7WifHTIRNCZdG8gL6PiFFAOmybO4r5SVZef9OF5XfOyH2p7xnjB98T4a1-KNEjI2RPxEFE7LUAKCAaLdE_LJraeB-XGw9Z0fGsKQYKJwsUTW2yxlCiya0mxzwwA57deU-9hGTlo7kObE6JBSIrMVOdLtRzzA2HOaJlgICB5tvM/s320/img223.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Novel - December 7, 1957</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-6925571618892981932023-06-21T10:50:00.001-03:002023-06-22T09:10:48.451-03:00Star Weekly Novel Part V<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've mentioned authors and artists in earlier Star Weekly Novel posts. Here I'll start looking at genres. The series lasted for 36 years and nicely lines up with the middle third of the 20th century. From the annexation of Austria into the German Reich and the discovery of fission in 1938 to Watergate and the oil shock in 1973.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was a time when the number of readers in the US and Canada grew very fast. The post war world of increased education levels and popularity of cheap paperbacks are some of the reasons for this change. The popular fiction genres were historical, romance, crime/thriller and Westerns. I don't yet have any numbers but each is well represented among the Star Weekly Novels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are three Westerns.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Boss of the OK</i> by Brett Rider, pseudonym of Arthur Henry Gooden (1879-1971)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Galloping Ghost </i>by William Colt MacDonald (1891-1968)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Big Corral </i>by Archie Joscelyn (1899-1986)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVXSyDrB3BWcvzTIRmez_u1hoxEc8jrxY8cLwGeYXP3SCFjRyBigUk6LbYRWdGp_74ttknWH-0jZsH9HIMs4e1W6kugiz3qHn7QqZyjENS70Fndo4Tjl8nmdd8pM5DGGbQ06f9aaRofl-r5BMg_WG2EryIoqtqZkkyze-be1PH4LRuKVGqwK8FF9RFKs/s3128/img197.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVXSyDrB3BWcvzTIRmez_u1hoxEc8jrxY8cLwGeYXP3SCFjRyBigUk6LbYRWdGp_74ttknWH-0jZsH9HIMs4e1W6kugiz3qHn7QqZyjENS70Fndo4Tjl8nmdd8pM5DGGbQ06f9aaRofl-r5BMg_WG2EryIoqtqZkkyze-be1PH4LRuKVGqwK8FF9RFKs/s320/img197.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - December 29, 1951</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnqjT26Id06Nq28kSUDVK03AHGmndgcyIlvNCoZkXQYni8GE6P77QndjB-Pp6SqQeOAxS-nGGp58bUBg4Di38Rx0Zf0W-2xBfs16xikHSOUziJ5HJO0mAqXLq9KTa-0I5jBBbDdQCGooha_RD4Fnf0w1QqSkxkt7xvBW-jmRfLYSLgvMx4TikDonpmyM/s3128/img198.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnqjT26Id06Nq28kSUDVK03AHGmndgcyIlvNCoZkXQYni8GE6P77QndjB-Pp6SqQeOAxS-nGGp58bUBg4Di38Rx0Zf0W-2xBfs16xikHSOUziJ5HJO0mAqXLq9KTa-0I5jBBbDdQCGooha_RD4Fnf0w1QqSkxkt7xvBW-jmRfLYSLgvMx4TikDonpmyM/s320/img198.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - May 8, 1943</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3R0eKVu_9TyugYCtOWYmPYZQxXue9hbA7isddphBNJRu7oqgdALv92TI9eOkUWG-bBr7tC-_JwqwfKkmh6ybMqBgD9lh4BH3KGKyRzQ-g6TwCDqWP6wu62U7svNaJRjXmz0KnRi-z7W7qSGHjKzci-bSGvLfBa2TDcRU3m2QICiARgnIGIwJqGwYzi-g/s3128/img199.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="3128" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3R0eKVu_9TyugYCtOWYmPYZQxXue9hbA7isddphBNJRu7oqgdALv92TI9eOkUWG-bBr7tC-_JwqwfKkmh6ybMqBgD9lh4BH3KGKyRzQ-g6TwCDqWP6wu62U7svNaJRjXmz0KnRi-z7W7qSGHjKzci-bSGvLfBa2TDcRU3m2QICiARgnIGIwJqGwYzi-g/s320/img199.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - October 23, 1948</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-23710818459575459702023-06-18T14:53:00.002-03:002023-06-21T08:17:30.920-03:00Star Weekly Novel Part IV<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I've been able to find title/author information for some 1500 Star Weekly Novels, 80% of the approximate 1875 published. So far I have identified the artwork on only 93 issues. There are 34 separate artists. Here are some examples.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Dance Without Music</i> is illustrated by Mabel McDermott (?-?). </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Stranger in the Little House</i> has an illustration by someone well known to readers of this blog - Harlequin cover artist <a href="http://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2012/04/harlequin-artists-part-xxviii-paul-anna.html" target="_blank">Paul Anna Soik</a> (1919-1999).</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Where is Jenny Now? - </i>art by American George Sottung (1927-1999). <a href="http://notesandqueries.ca/dustybookcase/to-serve-and-to-serve-and-protect-by-brian-busby/">Here</a> is more on this novel.</span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BkLFGq1_L0cHrfq6h4iB3GQV00hkXja8XjWJlKT7SclGrQ2XGZHTftebozRT1TqgqnQvUP4mq-53Sa49Km4SCqXbyztAPqMDPb81ydFokGPrYpI4z5jnjYPnS2_o-rTLkSWdCY6uu8xEj69Csh111jrTTfLL2LeEZ6aTcB29Cj_Chk0mKXcPjXXb/s3128/img192.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3128" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BkLFGq1_L0cHrfq6h4iB3GQV00hkXja8XjWJlKT7SclGrQ2XGZHTftebozRT1TqgqnQvUP4mq-53Sa49Km4SCqXbyztAPqMDPb81ydFokGPrYpI4z5jnjYPnS2_o-rTLkSWdCY6uu8xEj69Csh111jrTTfLL2LeEZ6aTcB29Cj_Chk0mKXcPjXXb/s320/img192.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - December 3, 1960</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi6zFOlhqQEDKbxL1VIm-loeZxlB0lZY7_SXrTnbYSssMYhUYJOWHDBcULI7o3PpkTf3a4t_mke2_sOLh9DeAQNNMYlsoPeAlFo1WqS6ZT7BM_ie1iWKHfur1qklg4cPRpeiKvEAvDDw_apZsI4HN1MEZdUnKBywsY4l_LgeoBFVYtlOlVGS5EgTM2/s3128/img195.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2503" data-original-width="3128" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi6zFOlhqQEDKbxL1VIm-loeZxlB0lZY7_SXrTnbYSssMYhUYJOWHDBcULI7o3PpkTf3a4t_mke2_sOLh9DeAQNNMYlsoPeAlFo1WqS6ZT7BM_ie1iWKHfur1qklg4cPRpeiKvEAvDDw_apZsI4HN1MEZdUnKBywsY4l_LgeoBFVYtlOlVGS5EgTM2/s320/img195.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - September 11, 1948</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr01PTLjh7IdkCfR2EFflzYptw648oAz2f5tbUe8-ZtAhuKdhqkII5b6AKwTG2atA37SpeKI5OiS_7O0nnntHXW0eYi5PvqGo9vFG1Y10jiK9YHHNXID05G6oc9lf7UMpqatgDvpKXEYK1AIw7zdEl0mNfa4_rBV-YSz6T9_fzJ9uICnmgOBqreulE/s3128/img196.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3128" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr01PTLjh7IdkCfR2EFflzYptw648oAz2f5tbUe8-ZtAhuKdhqkII5b6AKwTG2atA37SpeKI5OiS_7O0nnntHXW0eYi5PvqGo9vFG1Y10jiK9YHHNXID05G6oc9lf7UMpqatgDvpKXEYK1AIw7zdEl0mNfa4_rBV-YSz6T9_fzJ9uICnmgOBqreulE/s320/img196.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - January 11, 1958</span></div></div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-49737244155758585402023-06-14T12:44:00.004-03:002023-06-14T12:47:37.861-03:00Star Weekly Novel Part III<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2020/07/star-weekly-novel-part-i.html">first</a> part of this series about the "Star Weekly Complete Novel" series of newspaper inserts I estimated that around 1875 issues were published. I continue to work on an accurate and complete list for this fascinating series. This post is about the authors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I estimate there were between 600 and 700 authors whose works were published. From Edward S. Aarons to Phyllis Brett Young and Erle Stanley Gardner with 73 to Betty Friedan with one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are some examples.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE33H-hgorqDbBUK10mDZdWJoAzt9tfLw0dB_CfOz0zVyrpOtmlfVfJHHrHUPwDuTlKziszZFbuKfs7qtAlzeRTTm0dVaoDSQ_RdJjtOtFuJfjS8OKnRXS6VZU9VO6iBeFETZ23Oos6dNlj3VUf_PkIrIPVAZBEhbeUYyOKpGHbZN-DTDdlYmfaLz1/s3061/img183.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2443" data-original-width="3061" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE33H-hgorqDbBUK10mDZdWJoAzt9tfLw0dB_CfOz0zVyrpOtmlfVfJHHrHUPwDuTlKziszZFbuKfs7qtAlzeRTTm0dVaoDSQ_RdJjtOtFuJfjS8OKnRXS6VZU9VO6iBeFETZ23Oos6dNlj3VUf_PkIrIPVAZBEhbeUYyOKpGHbZN-DTDdlYmfaLz1/s320/img183.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - July 21, 1945</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55iKDMJCQ2KWx7uxVFyBv-U7WlKxV0wqe0f2lhgh2UjsWIaqu8etRVSrsKbWCs3XGG3sbQpXkvgMqSV_lfMr7DQiE7nVenD7VdD0Y8117p9vgI6NiS8aqXCZ0jTz0e0NdaPCzjFjHQICwLmV6TGmQ32Yb15c02SKRPwiDmzTgPjWttdP4ulLvYSgJ/s3128/img184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2496" data-original-width="3128" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55iKDMJCQ2KWx7uxVFyBv-U7WlKxV0wqe0f2lhgh2UjsWIaqu8etRVSrsKbWCs3XGG3sbQpXkvgMqSV_lfMr7DQiE7nVenD7VdD0Y8117p9vgI6NiS8aqXCZ0jTz0e0NdaPCzjFjHQICwLmV6TGmQ32Yb15c02SKRPwiDmzTgPjWttdP4ulLvYSgJ/s320/img184.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - July 19,1947</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4V0E4lKfihULpR8Rp4ECm3wMlQsvgmI0nHfiZ7WzfdLhzXtjS693rkGJCsHbdkd2HzzyvxQ3-DtWa8Q38HCCvk6NBtfcvT4f2bV1MC3349QPD6eYKi3csmTXfi8pXsyLpPc6fFEhR0TfeCJN65EDf8aHm6hvyyhQxdHosKNJ8appkfXlKOWOTHyHd/s3061/img191.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2443" data-original-width="3061" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4V0E4lKfihULpR8Rp4ECm3wMlQsvgmI0nHfiZ7WzfdLhzXtjS693rkGJCsHbdkd2HzzyvxQ3-DtWa8Q38HCCvk6NBtfcvT4f2bV1MC3349QPD6eYKi3csmTXfi8pXsyLpPc6fFEhR0TfeCJN65EDf8aHm6hvyyhQxdHosKNJ8appkfXlKOWOTHyHd/s320/img191.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Star Weekly Complete Novel - October 2, 1943</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-8597854666418107082023-06-12T10:14:00.001-03:002023-06-12T10:14:10.958-03:00Jesse James in Canada<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jesse James (1847-1882) came to Canada thanks to the self-styled "king of the Canadian pulp writers", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._Kelley#">Thomas P. Kelley</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kelley wrote a biography of James that was published by Toronto's Export Publishing Enterprises in their News Stand Library imprint. Export put out two editions with different numbers, one for each of the Canadian and US markets. The US version came in two variants, one with and one without a dust jacket.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Less well known is a shorter version published in <i>Outlaws Ride the Range</i>, a collection from Toronto's Pastime Publications described as an "Action Novel". Published circa 1946/47 for the post war UK market, it is a rare book, and Kelley is using one of his many pseudonyms, T. P. Monahon. The book has 15 chapters, the first five about various "outlaws", the last ten on James. <a href="https://spectrelibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/outlaws-ride-the-range-by-t-p-monahon-aka-thomas-p-kelley/">Here</a> is a detailed look at the book but I'll focus on chapters six through 15.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter six is titled "Bad Bill" and describes the life of Bill Bailey who is killed by James. The first chapter in Export's book is titled "What Happened at the 'Bucket of Blood'". The first few paragraphs are different then the versions are nearly identical. The Export book has a further 16 chapters vs nine in the Pastime version. Here is how they line up, Export first then Pastime.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 3 ---> Chapter 7</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 4 ---> Chapter 8</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 5 ---> Chapter 9</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 6 ---> Chapter 10</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapters 7 and 8 ---> Chapters 11, 12 and 13</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 9 ---> Chapter 14</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 13 ---> Chapter 15</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Export chapters 2, 10-12, 14-17 are not in the Pastime version. I haven't done a detailed comparison of the chapters but I would guess over 95% of the texts are identical.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGoCnKi5k7jAEwT8nG6n8OMSEENcmy-g6iOtAT2jzPzBK807VgY_nmUD5sAugtOSp4712a7ZHmj5mVPMcA-b6-g59zJjGRNLoUq85YiyMAup7QdlHZ6ci4byZmmH9hJ-a8PUcWIHJLjR6gIWu3g8qkWnW4V1ewK2px7z0oWK-aJ9XbD0NhLLsmZEUY/s2741/NSL92.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2741" data-original-width="1651" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGoCnKi5k7jAEwT8nG6n8OMSEENcmy-g6iOtAT2jzPzBK807VgY_nmUD5sAugtOSp4712a7ZHmj5mVPMcA-b6-g59zJjGRNLoUq85YiyMAup7QdlHZ6ci4byZmmH9hJ-a8PUcWIHJLjR6gIWu3g8qkWnW4V1ewK2px7z0oWK-aJ9XbD0NhLLsmZEUY/s320/NSL92.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">News Stand Library 92 and 15A - January 1950</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeyvA8d9fLm_BdCMJ7qU3A0ctOjaOklE6ldnadufh_ayzp96GruECiBNLJZG4kP7vpS8sOqLXhQ3y_yFOpqkm08yU9mU_AjhXldjiQ0NzbYJRYiwcxqqMFIsYkYWlWwWTB32XlX78bCzmk1Psah8Hgpacs3_yJiLpdapnejiBz_DtPlBjTpEOkL9s/s2270/Pastime%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2270" data-original-width="1501" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeyvA8d9fLm_BdCMJ7qU3A0ctOjaOklE6ldnadufh_ayzp96GruECiBNLJZG4kP7vpS8sOqLXhQ3y_yFOpqkm08yU9mU_AjhXldjiQ0NzbYJRYiwcxqqMFIsYkYWlWwWTB32XlX78bCzmk1Psah8Hgpacs3_yJiLpdapnejiBz_DtPlBjTpEOkL9s/s320/Pastime%5B1%5D.jpg" width="212" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pastime Publications [nn]</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-58125875419368236792023-05-31T09:23:00.000-03:002023-05-31T09:23:11.938-03:00Harlequin Mysteries - Raven House Part V<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">"Agents and authors simply believed that Raven House was an ideal dumping ground for trunk manuscripts, failed proposals, and any old shlock that they happened to have lying around"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Helen Heller, Raven House editor, quoted in Paul Grescoe, <i>The Merchants of Venus</i> (Raincoast Books, 1996), page 147.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Continuing our look at Harlequin's Raven House imprint's authors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first is Christina Blake. Like <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2023/05/harlequin-mysteries-raven-house-part-iv.html">Richard A. Moore</a>, her two Raven House books appear to be the only ones ever published. George Ogan had three titles issued by Raven House. But he was someone at the end of his career (he died in 1983) so these are likely the "lying around" type. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The next author is the best known of Raven House's forty authors - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich">Cornell Woolrich</a> with over forty movies made from his novels and short stories. His one book for Raven House was the last in the series and is one of only two Raven House Mysteries that remain in print.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuo4hdh6lCsedb-c1ePFIzfcDDVI5puzB1KtoqO9NTh-yWmRFL7mrqHXoBJEa8dQI_cI7srHf6PWG06ghD1zx81iBvRAljBFqSkGYx-Hkbg50mzp3j9EIh0mk-YCmo1BTWKPKZsknyZKspGxX5ieAoDD2XUu_XXsewm4BjoXz3sF5fbyyvm3S4Qt-/s2003/Raven11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2003" data-original-width="1229" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuo4hdh6lCsedb-c1ePFIzfcDDVI5puzB1KtoqO9NTh-yWmRFL7mrqHXoBJEa8dQI_cI7srHf6PWG06ghD1zx81iBvRAljBFqSkGYx-Hkbg50mzp3j9EIh0mk-YCmo1BTWKPKZsknyZKspGxX5ieAoDD2XUu_XXsewm4BjoXz3sF5fbyyvm3S4Qt-/s320/Raven11.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 11 - November 1980</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_TvaqU66y5g-Z9Sw8UOvVvTx0-o6-SdNtX1h05DQ-jJv37xP1ELvK4w7enE5mLRQJFY08uTEPYVgEDcCUf816a9K6EyUhOtBn-B7rbp7PRVj9uwBeTGDvz-5_HMARQepwGNvlpmgykoyK6q911Mpxun0fhUUDo-pGrbGLFhE3IvjG7QzVRQONlMQ/s1999/raven11-back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1999" data-original-width="1234" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_TvaqU66y5g-Z9Sw8UOvVvTx0-o6-SdNtX1h05DQ-jJv37xP1ELvK4w7enE5mLRQJFY08uTEPYVgEDcCUf816a9K6EyUhOtBn-B7rbp7PRVj9uwBeTGDvz-5_HMARQepwGNvlpmgykoyK6q911Mpxun0fhUUDo-pGrbGLFhE3IvjG7QzVRQONlMQ/s320/raven11-back.jpg" width="198" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 11 back</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtaq3xhhzzdnldz3JQ7_O0QfOjP4LIxtQTRp_qM1stsMYDlrccX0Wue3UX57AGg9ShFMo-MJ6t6PG-_kPA5UAAO-C4Q6yYge2cZaEDznRafrUGF9njJFfJPLzpfWMXHCs1F8qj3NMQdRl9i8r1RVONNwR_PFy_j15VyZjsUNXQSwb9ZeBDVu-CPse/s2005/Raven12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2005" data-original-width="1240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtaq3xhhzzdnldz3JQ7_O0QfOjP4LIxtQTRp_qM1stsMYDlrccX0Wue3UX57AGg9ShFMo-MJ6t6PG-_kPA5UAAO-C4Q6yYge2cZaEDznRafrUGF9njJFfJPLzpfWMXHCs1F8qj3NMQdRl9i8r1RVONNwR_PFy_j15VyZjsUNXQSwb9ZeBDVu-CPse/s320/Raven12.jpg" width="198" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 12 - November 1980</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOYLWbl18ld8jm_ahEg1XwrOIQimoUaAgFGZNzF9BEVYZF1qC14a4T1kn5iNjJWW1hknM4XZNqTXJ2btoizmFeCHgAihqUoO3Da4AyCb4WPiuGCdMKDZw52r4g1g2-V11Ql6y8eO2wewXDWgbxSGUNp8tMZEdpKEdMJWj_ZkCOHPRaGOGv_-KeO5y/s1973/Raven12-back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1973" data-original-width="1247" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOYLWbl18ld8jm_ahEg1XwrOIQimoUaAgFGZNzF9BEVYZF1qC14a4T1kn5iNjJWW1hknM4XZNqTXJ2btoizmFeCHgAihqUoO3Da4AyCb4WPiuGCdMKDZw52r4g1g2-V11Ql6y8eO2wewXDWgbxSGUNp8tMZEdpKEdMJWj_ZkCOHPRaGOGv_-KeO5y/s320/Raven12-back.jpg" width="202" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 12 back</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUQgTDrfCGcG7a7L7R8mNKcFu-Gl8ZnOnjzdVWbbLjh9KDDOyj2X219I0LkCLwissjjBk1Es1FaOQdJw_qGxw5CqrNot-da8VggHEcndcFsvR7RgeyILnuwQGbYOjYFvRjUb3NSk_BEG6jGGkUEV72JO1XcU-faOA5wm1Ff_K7dY3snBhXafKR0sS/s1996/Raven72.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1996" data-original-width="1234" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUQgTDrfCGcG7a7L7R8mNKcFu-Gl8ZnOnjzdVWbbLjh9KDDOyj2X219I0LkCLwissjjBk1Es1FaOQdJw_qGxw5CqrNot-da8VggHEcndcFsvR7RgeyILnuwQGbYOjYFvRjUb3NSk_BEG6jGGkUEV72JO1XcU-faOA5wm1Ff_K7dY3snBhXafKR0sS/s320/Raven72.jpg" width="198" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 72 - August 1981</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKXZD1FHsXeIJVzLTMKjYJdNnfj2xKEb3-Zhd63PCeyERHUpNaVmQcZduYZqWp5swfqa3ck14qAChZHVro3GcZNRJA7OztqpUHzZKjOSe1sfp1s7RgCbyXBjMdqBp2020BVLoydsdOHIEFSymhTtFDmDbg_-9TP0jeLcQfERT1sD5hVNuqIfUN7w3C/s1965/Raven72-back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1965" data-original-width="1227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKXZD1FHsXeIJVzLTMKjYJdNnfj2xKEb3-Zhd63PCeyERHUpNaVmQcZduYZqWp5swfqa3ck14qAChZHVro3GcZNRJA7OztqpUHzZKjOSe1sfp1s7RgCbyXBjMdqBp2020BVLoydsdOHIEFSymhTtFDmDbg_-9TP0jeLcQfERT1sD5hVNuqIfUN7w3C/s320/Raven72-back.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 72 back</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-42893386147023107202023-05-29T10:20:00.003-03:002023-05-29T11:27:07.041-03:00Harlequin Mysteries - Raven House Part IV<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Agents and authors simply believed that Raven House was an ideal dumping ground for trunk manuscripts, failed proposals, and any old shlock that they happened to have lying around"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Helen Heller, Raven House editor, quoted in Paul Grescoe, <i>The Merchants of Venus</i> (Raincoast Books, 1996), page 147.</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This quote is a good place to start looking at the forty authors published by Raven House. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nine had only Raven House titles which had been published earlier, twenty-seven had only paperback originals and four had both. We've already seen one author, <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2023/05/harlequin-mysteries-raven-house-part-ii.html">Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd</a>, who published ten originals in one year with Raven. I don't know if they were "shlock" but that many titles must have been "lying around" as the author was nearly 60.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen">Gary Paulsen's</a> (1939-2021) two books with Raven House are among his over 200 books published from 1966 to 2022. In contrast Richard A. Moore's two Raven House books appear to be his only novels.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOi804Txs6OVku1VEQ6mYF9e43hFDJWu9oG791LJCg8zgyOuCzhirkIfp4pO30sUeuGuhtfDhVVzZrUHG7onosASLI4R3eWU1XKbUcm828T5kKqAYBVFjivpdVGIHGYpIGK7wYYQ7JdWJjTGVxXZhJT7dI5orrugFRL4YgJ5Ix2boagd1BKDoTX8a/s2007/Raven17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2007" data-original-width="1222" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOi804Txs6OVku1VEQ6mYF9e43hFDJWu9oG791LJCg8zgyOuCzhirkIfp4pO30sUeuGuhtfDhVVzZrUHG7onosASLI4R3eWU1XKbUcm828T5kKqAYBVFjivpdVGIHGYpIGK7wYYQ7JdWJjTGVxXZhJT7dI5orrugFRL4YgJ5Ix2boagd1BKDoTX8a/s320/Raven17.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 17 - December 1980</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBImmCd0RquTOXzDKMZ5yK7S8uNEIX00_ZDdP3xGmcOwDxhuA7DZy_iztc1xwqgxbplqvPTSR0QaFBu-5_jat2jkczrDRpZo5d0lV_22vAGi_JrSzjrMv6aikmq59PritKRCb3MoXPWenfD-T-_lDDKBX1vXP8NWIpQEZXjF9gH5827asrulbpOYv/s1981/Raven20-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1981" data-original-width="1215" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBImmCd0RquTOXzDKMZ5yK7S8uNEIX00_ZDdP3xGmcOwDxhuA7DZy_iztc1xwqgxbplqvPTSR0QaFBu-5_jat2jkczrDRpZo5d0lV_22vAGi_JrSzjrMv6aikmq59PritKRCb3MoXPWenfD-T-_lDDKBX1vXP8NWIpQEZXjF9gH5827asrulbpOYv/s320/Raven20-back.jpg" width="196" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 20 back</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-88851804863624668582023-05-28T09:27:00.000-03:002023-05-28T09:27:24.106-03:00Harlequin Mysteries - Raven House Part III<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In addition to selling Raven House Mysteries on Canadian newsstands and in drug and cigar stores (and maybe bookstores), Harlequin had a subscription plan which is found on the last page of the books. New subscribers received the first four books free plus, each month, four new books. Total cost was $7/month with free shipping.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first four books had the words "introductory copy" circling the number in the top right front cover and the price had a stroke through it. There is a fifth book with this description but it is unnumbered and is not mentioned in the subscription plan ads. This appears to be a promotional title for the series.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first books had a September 1980 published date. Oddly they have an April 1980 printing date. Other books (at least to December 1980) follow the same pattern with the print date six or seven months before the published date. Seems odd to print and wharehouse hundreds of thousands of books and tie up capital for half-a-year.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLeXNZcim7K35x8iFPX_DJFJOmffUD8L2b0GFc0e663WLMupo_xU5FBgWYtd2y4KUUOPGox5FaNBJcQlNGpOxRXwfbLHeF6-lLLAAZ3KdI2HKNnJQN7hY_iJnLbgtKl1VlE4JZZpgtn6CYfKOoAz-dfkryOE55P00LVc4CGa3Yz_lmj-0B4tcZ_91R/s1991/Ravennn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1991" data-original-width="1237" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLeXNZcim7K35x8iFPX_DJFJOmffUD8L2b0GFc0e663WLMupo_xU5FBgWYtd2y4KUUOPGox5FaNBJcQlNGpOxRXwfbLHeF6-lLLAAZ3KdI2HKNnJQN7hY_iJnLbgtKl1VlE4JZZpgtn6CYfKOoAz-dfkryOE55P00LVc4CGa3Yz_lmj-0B4tcZ_91R/s320/Ravennn.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries (nn) - September 1980</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyU_KBzPEXeaK-1uhBriocbNHjGvmdbvVMVdxzJ9rNmTMwF6DMVSgTpBBVZig8dYcWLCsR04IS_tEVG5240CmrrvalmXaMawP_cMEtRbRrfpzprk2EXpVeT1CGpqG-VlWMZfXLh32kM9PrNhC3aDltWmiwmmUdkvXgwQuRR8MQ_sHNmEtlGgacRuAB/s1989/Raven1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1989" data-original-width="1222" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyU_KBzPEXeaK-1uhBriocbNHjGvmdbvVMVdxzJ9rNmTMwF6DMVSgTpBBVZig8dYcWLCsR04IS_tEVG5240CmrrvalmXaMawP_cMEtRbRrfpzprk2EXpVeT1CGpqG-VlWMZfXLh32kM9PrNhC3aDltWmiwmmUdkvXgwQuRR8MQ_sHNmEtlGgacRuAB/s320/Raven1.jpg" width="197" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 1 - September 1980</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJemJXFWFoFX45x9rb81_cRzC8N8KamGISc07PkCBQ_dW7FNcT8mwsMcb-qLtXNPSnF3FpAhm1_Vg5TwMyE4p0grgXFF1dC8WXHcs3VIScl-jFSksUunM-_f9q3g2hHcLwb1iBk7HocprR2RlB8DADxm0tf4ztk92zY5GvgkluRqXs1O-6asAqDSeR/s1998/Raven7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="1213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJemJXFWFoFX45x9rb81_cRzC8N8KamGISc07PkCBQ_dW7FNcT8mwsMcb-qLtXNPSnF3FpAhm1_Vg5TwMyE4p0grgXFF1dC8WXHcs3VIScl-jFSksUunM-_f9q3g2hHcLwb1iBk7HocprR2RlB8DADxm0tf4ztk92zY5GvgkluRqXs1O-6asAqDSeR/s320/Raven7.jpg" width="194" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 7 - October 1980</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQPQghZl5veChvWRbvU53Me04kg4jfjUAYkdkfMv9u3SrM3X4lOwOAF1nr9v-G2LaGlS1dgJUFFjrd8Cv7LJMn8fVGv86RU4NFaHNqEsHS2rlc1yyawc3Clqt7ZQidwwJNqBXtF0lNrc5a73xq-gq3Z5GbRDewBdtuHh4vdq7_mz2hSlRiPMEMnqQG/s2425/Raven7-subad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1945" data-original-width="2425" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQPQghZl5veChvWRbvU53Me04kg4jfjUAYkdkfMv9u3SrM3X4lOwOAF1nr9v-G2LaGlS1dgJUFFjrd8Cv7LJMn8fVGv86RU4NFaHNqEsHS2rlc1yyawc3Clqt7ZQidwwJNqBXtF0lNrc5a73xq-gq3Z5GbRDewBdtuHh4vdq7_mz2hSlRiPMEMnqQG/s320/Raven7-subad.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Raven House Mysteries 7 subscription ad</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-28877531675563730582023-05-26T15:59:00.005-03:002023-05-31T13:58:39.175-03:00Harlequin Mysteries - Raven House Part II<p>I<span style="font-family: verdana;">n my <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2012/10/harlequin-mysteries-raven-house-part-i.html">first</a> post about Harlequin imprint Raven House I listed the 74 books in the series. Here is more about this now obscure series.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The publisher is Worldwide Library. Harlequin is never mentioned but Worldwide's address is Harlequin's head office in Toronto (still there in 2023). Obviously Harlequin wanted to protect their romance brand and not confuse their intended mystery reader audience.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I said there are 43 authors with Raven House books. But four are pseudonyms for an author whose name is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Woods">Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd</a> (1922-1985). The Sara Woods books were previously published. The other ten were first published as Raven House Mysteries.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are her 13 Raven House books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">5 Burton, Anne The Dear Departed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">17</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Burton, Anne</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Where There's a
Will</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">57 Burton, Anne Worse Than a Crime<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">1 Challis, Mary Crimes Past<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">13 Challis, Mary Burden of Proof<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">53 Challis, Mary The Ghost of an
Idea<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">69 Challis, Mary A Very Good Hater<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">9 Leek, Margaret <span> </span><span> </span>The Healthy Grave<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">29 Leek, Margaret <span> </span><span> </span> We Must Have a Trial<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">66 Leek, Margaret <span> </span><span> </span> Voice of the Past<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">21 Woods, Sara The Knavish Crows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">48 Woods, Sara They Love Not Poison<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;">nn Woods, Sara Though I Know She Lies<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldU3AQ-GNj9ye8kYl-dt79R-RFzWhB_LFrbax75TiqQs-jH4MksUp-tlEVTfbFYCm06wYZQnDuJExoOpxim0VuqDVAibemNa4LuLCDJ5cm1CuG_VGK1Vkf5xYejGEcI-xQKFNOsErV222hEuf7iXwT8EuJKd634XXHdC3HgZzoJqgP0RarvUcXH1O/s1989/Raven1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1989" data-original-width="1222" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldU3AQ-GNj9ye8kYl-dt79R-RFzWhB_LFrbax75TiqQs-jH4MksUp-tlEVTfbFYCm06wYZQnDuJExoOpxim0VuqDVAibemNa4LuLCDJ5cm1CuG_VGK1Vkf5xYejGEcI-xQKFNOsErV222hEuf7iXwT8EuJKd634XXHdC3HgZzoJqgP0RarvUcXH1O/s320/Raven1.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Raven House Mysteries 1 - September 1980</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Moore, DRILLING FOR DEATH (#7) by John Wolfe, TO GUARD THE RIGHT (#8) by Hugh Zachary, RED IS FOR SHROUDS (#6) by Mary Ann Taylor, DANGER ON CUE (#2) by Rebecca Holland and TO KILL A JUDGE (#5) by George Ogan. </span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">This first series is not exactly auspicious. It contains some dreadful hack writing, the low point of which is to be found in ''Danger on Cue.'' This is prose of the ''Paul's lips found mine'' variety. Paul also has hazel eyes with a ''direct, penetrating glance'' (of which the reader is constantly reminded). The best entry is probably ''To Kill a Judge,'' though the ending is overly theatrical. ''Red Is for Shrouds'' has a decent buildup toward the end, when a beleaguered sheriff solves a multiple murder case during a town meeting. Otherwise, it is hard to recommend much in this unimaginative series. "</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Newgate Callendar, <em>New York Times</em> November 15, 1981</span><br />
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<span>Raven House Mysteries was a 74 book Harlequin imprint lasting, not surprising given the above review, only from 1980 to 1982. Callendar is wrong about Raven House being a new imprint. The first book was released in September 1980 and the last (#72) is dated August 1981. Harlequin then renumbered a number of books, likely for the US market, and this is the first group with a September 1981 date. I have put the new number in brackets.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>There are 57 paperback originals and 17 previously published titles from 43 different authors. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first book is unnumbered and described as an "introductory copy" on the front cover. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><br /></div><div><span> </span><span> Woods, Sarah<span> </span><span> </span><span> Though I Know She Lies</span></span></div><div>1<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Challis, Mary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Crimes Past</div><div>2<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Taylor, Mary Ann<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Red is for Shrouds</div><div>3<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gillespie, Robert B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Crossword Mystery</div><div>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Howard, James A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Murder Takes a Wife</div><div>5<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Burton, Anne<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Dear Departed</div><div>6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolfe, John<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Drilling for Death</div><div>7<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Moore, Richard A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Death in the Past</div><div>8<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shannon, Dell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Rain With Violence</div><div>9<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leek, Margaret<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Healthy Grave</div><div>10<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kane, Henry<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Midnight Man</div><div>11<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ogan, George<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>To Kill a Judge</div><div>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Blake, Christina<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>A Fragrant Death</div><div>13<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Challis, Mary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Burden of Proof</div><div>14<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Williams, Wynn<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Take the Money and Die</div><div>15<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gault, William <span> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Bad Samaritan</div><div>16<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Masur, Harold Q.<span> </span><span> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Send Another Hearse</div><div>17<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Burton, Anne<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Where There's a Will</div><div>18<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Holland, Rebecca<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Danger on Cue</div><div>19<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zachary, Hugh<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>To Guard the Right</div><div>20<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paulsen, Gary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Sweeper</div><div>21<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Woods, Sara<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Knavish Crows</div><div>22<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mead, Russell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Moses Bottle</div><div>23<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Taylor, Mary Ann<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Return to Murder</div><div>24<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fleet, Charles<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>A Place Like Hessberg</div><div>25<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Block, C. Burke<span> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Art for Keeps</div><div>26<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Waugh, Hillary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Glenna Powers Case</div><div>27<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Blom, K. Arne<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Limits of Pain</div><div>28<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>O'Callaghan, Maxine<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Death is Forever</div><div>29<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leek, Margaret<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>We Must Have a Trial</div><div>30<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Levi, Peter<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>The Head in the Soup</div><div>31<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Goulart, Ron<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Ghosting</div><div>32<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ogan, George<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Murder in the Wind</div><div>33<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fox, James M.<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Wheel is Fixed</div><div>34<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gillespie, Robert B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Little Sally Does it Again</div><div>35<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. James, Bernard<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>April Thirtieth</div><div>36<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Taschdjian, Claire<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Classified Death</div><div>37<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gault, William <span> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Cana Diversion</div><div>38<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Moore, Richard A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Death of a Source</div><div>39<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Walker, Irma<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Murder in 25 Words or Less</div><div>40<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wise, William<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Amazon Factor</div><div>41<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Howard, James A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Death Audit</div><div>42<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Julian, Robert<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> Murder</span></span> in Focus</div><div>43<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mead, Russell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Nightingale Trivet</div><div>44<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wick, Carter<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Dark House, Dark Road</div><div>45<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fox, James M.<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>A Shroud for Mr. Bundy</div><div>46<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>O'Callaghan, Maxine<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Run From Nightmare</div><div>47<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paulsen, Gary<span> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clutterkill</div><div>48<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Woods, Sara<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>They Love Not Poison</div><div>49<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zachary, Hugh<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Top Level Death</div><div>50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shannon, Dell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Case Pending</div><div>51<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Waugh, Hillary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Doria Rafe Case</div><div>52<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Blake, Christina<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Deadly Legacy</div><div>53<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Challis, Mary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Ghost of an Idea</div><div>54<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Maron, Margaret<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On Coffee With</div><div>55<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ogan, George<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Murder by Proxy</div><div>56<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Roberts, Willo Davis<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Face at the Window</div><div>57<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Burton, Anne<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Worse Than a Crime</div><div>58<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mead, Russell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Third One</div><div>59<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pici, J.R.<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>The Papa Legacy</div><div>60<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sadler, Mark<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Touch of Death</div><div>61<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fox, James M.<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Coven</div><div>62<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Masur, Harold Q.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Mourning After</div><div>63<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MacKellar, Sinclair<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prompt for Murder</div><div>64<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shannon, Dell<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Ace of Spades</div><div>65<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Howard, James A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Friday is a Killing Day</div><div>66<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leek, Margaret<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Voice of the Past</div><div>67<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Walker, Irma<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Man In the Driver's Seat</div><div>68<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Waugh, Hillary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>The Billy Cantrell Case</div><div>69<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Challis, Mary<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>A Very Good Hater</div><div>70<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dunlap, Susan<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Karma</div><div>71<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>O'Donohoe, Nick<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>April Snow</div><div>72<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Woolrich, Cornell<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Bride Wore Black</div><div><br /></div><div>Plus one book published only in the second series.</div><div><br /></div><div>33<span style="white-space: pre;"> Halliday, Brett<span> </span></span><span style="white-space: pre;"> Dividend on Death</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The second edition came out five years later as the Canadian printing of a US edition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The US edition was published by Avon Books as one of their Eton imprint. The Canadian printing is renumbered as part of Avon's short lived uniquely Canadian numbering editions from 1951 to 1953. There are 62 of the renumbered Avons from C751 to C812.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMu2KwQ72hCrQxDlZU0pl2Tv21oQGlUPwP7SElZfXH7A0FZO5-RtA_z1i_NLoZtiS8yvdn_kEGIa7g_mNDWfVRXOvdgtBY3KEzwnySIw2UCxM1Nbo2DqeLAAJ0OYM1bhlZQM6yqA3eIh3NvcJlTPIVtNUkFEQ9CFsWPAKlJAQ7dNHRKghzw6bmNYs/s1405/img603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1405" data-original-width="826" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMu2KwQ72hCrQxDlZU0pl2Tv21oQGlUPwP7SElZfXH7A0FZO5-RtA_z1i_NLoZtiS8yvdn_kEGIa7g_mNDWfVRXOvdgtBY3KEzwnySIw2UCxM1Nbo2DqeLAAJ0OYM1bhlZQM6yqA3eIh3NvcJlTPIVtNUkFEQ9CFsWPAKlJAQ7dNHRKghzw6bmNYs/s320/img603.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon C805 - 1953</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQ-KzI6VLi_LOK5OKtQdTX6vmx6NuFaGQ1A3L-Ar2YGYRfObdA2km1ONE3toGhZhIelulGcjNv8BWkSY826pn7NKiVNQsH7qFraPeflpiFjm8EwrmOXc6gtcqCp4x8myhbE32rRT5IY5o_SH28hLRgvP3GZoYncyahZK_JAwOpguIAkwuzOhe18eo/s1392/img604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="817" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQ-KzI6VLi_LOK5OKtQdTX6vmx6NuFaGQ1A3L-Ar2YGYRfObdA2km1ONE3toGhZhIelulGcjNv8BWkSY826pn7NKiVNQsH7qFraPeflpiFjm8EwrmOXc6gtcqCp4x8myhbE32rRT5IY5o_SH28hLRgvP3GZoYncyahZK_JAwOpguIAkwuzOhe18eo/s320/img604.jpg" width="188" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon C805 back</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8JH4NQY_WVh1nyaUCZqJMz72VitmZDzDyExjggKwnWsxm_is0AbMm8iKK11s_DVgvEP6SWVZIz044OD-XEzJe9dcKzEXviDN1lUawRIPErWRxNBWeESU8rxuURns9LpE3F8fPUSECueM1Vr-4bisWYuEDzbsnd5A9hDJ-UGYUuYggPwhNiGdpQ4qG/s1343/img605.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="814" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8JH4NQY_WVh1nyaUCZqJMz72VitmZDzDyExjggKwnWsxm_is0AbMm8iKK11s_DVgvEP6SWVZIz044OD-XEzJe9dcKzEXviDN1lUawRIPErWRxNBWeESU8rxuURns9LpE3F8fPUSECueM1Vr-4bisWYuEDzbsnd5A9hDJ-UGYUuYggPwhNiGdpQ4qG/s320/img605.jpg" width="194" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">News Stand Library nn - May 1948</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNAjnjyBiQk7P54Fu-SvqTwV7jNlNGzeCDkeJvH-obaFZrG6snn1F9aXkHxXwHkvJZmEwidftx9GlaqBmFNdHE4hlhjRr2auVyyYmdfjpmRc2uE3OKlsO5a6rteFS4N-5Vg4_JnWw0MKOeQY8h3QVXfEJ5NKySJtYRhb4o_jTOWr6-RWnZzxIhzlN/s1349/img606.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="801" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNAjnjyBiQk7P54Fu-SvqTwV7jNlNGzeCDkeJvH-obaFZrG6snn1F9aXkHxXwHkvJZmEwidftx9GlaqBmFNdHE4hlhjRr2auVyyYmdfjpmRc2uE3OKlsO5a6rteFS4N-5Vg4_JnWw0MKOeQY8h3QVXfEJ5NKySJtYRhb4o_jTOWr6-RWnZzxIhzlN/s320/img606.jpg" width="190" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">News Stand Library nn back</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-5287335933728139572022-11-06T12:50:00.000-04:002022-11-06T12:50:42.869-04:00Collins Dictionary Part II - Canadianess<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-dictionary-from-wm-collins-sons-co.html">Part I</a> introduced two 1940s era dictionaries from Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> Here is a third - <i>The Modern Standard English Dictionary </i>as well as some questions about all three.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><i>The </i></span><em>New Improved Standard</em><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span><em>Dictionary </em><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">was issued as a small paperback sized hardback. The August 22, 1942 edition of the (Toronto) <i>Globe and Mail</i> has a review on page 9 which praises its "Canadianess" and said that "it is hard to imagine greater value per cent [the book cost 25 cents] than this [dictionary]."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Modern Standard English Dictionary</i> is also a hardback and, except for the title, is identical to <i>The New Improved</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The "King's English" Self-Pronouncing Pocket Dictionary and Vocabulary Builder</i> is a paperback and is also identical to <i>The New Improved</i> as described in <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-dictionary-from-wm-collins-sons-co.html">Part I</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why three versions with different names but identical contents? Collins trying to increase sales I guess.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">What is "Canadianess"? The covers state "30,000 words ... using the official standard of spelling taught in Canadian schools". What authority established the "official standard of spelling"? Don't know but this is still an issue - see <a href="https://www.editors.ca/news/its-time-new-canadian-english-dictionary">here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who are the editors, J(ohn) M(axey) Parrish and John R(edgwick) Crossland? They were British, not Canadian. In addition to editing other dictionaries such as <i>The</i> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Westminster English Dictionary </i>they edited many non-dictionaries such as <i>The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries </i>and<i> The Mammoth Wonder Book for Children</i>, all published in the UK.<i> </i>The impression is that they were not professional lexicographers. Begs the question - what is the source for the Canadian dictionary?</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Collins is still in the Canadian Dictionary business - <a href="https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780008184629/collins-canadian-dictionary-all-the-words-you-need-every-day/">Collins</a>.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg81tvNNZiuoOM17cekU220IyH5O9UTzfcqhvbQUN5VGBOS6SuQj6Bqs4lZOuDf5on4d4OsbT6jxR5Uk2ZHhfr9urgdzdnQYeLFCIA2-BXMJ7fUUKC9U97eAMVmh34ZYMGlFnLh7fqs-KMoxSaqJDEViYhG6U-58DzzIgbVk8vuYq2NZ4HB7tworBjR/s1227/img582.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="856" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg81tvNNZiuoOM17cekU220IyH5O9UTzfcqhvbQUN5VGBOS6SuQj6Bqs4lZOuDf5on4d4OsbT6jxR5Uk2ZHhfr9urgdzdnQYeLFCIA2-BXMJ7fUUKC9U97eAMVmh34ZYMGlFnLh7fqs-KMoxSaqJDEViYhG6U-58DzzIgbVk8vuYq2NZ4HB7tworBjR/s320/img582.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUW84z5d9lB9oiAob7ly2mtRTCTiKfIQrKQ4IfgZBfIuFgqyNWl36mG68CYuNXGpRqTx-XEAqV6SfbcYgZRNSCP2l2KAWADATyznOcPi_TRd2I8ZKsfhwVj4i3cfGpjrHhQuxVNQ1SCinDcujSe7H6DLk6R_4Fp3v0laD58T34oMEc7NASiv750de/s1251/img583.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="887" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUW84z5d9lB9oiAob7ly2mtRTCTiKfIQrKQ4IfgZBfIuFgqyNWl36mG68CYuNXGpRqTx-XEAqV6SfbcYgZRNSCP2l2KAWADATyznOcPi_TRd2I8ZKsfhwVj4i3cfGpjrHhQuxVNQ1SCinDcujSe7H6DLk6R_4Fp3v0laD58T34oMEc7NASiv750de/s320/img583.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">White Circle Pocket Library S3 </span></div>
</div></div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-59921068896335080992022-11-05T15:00:00.001-03:002024-01-18T09:42:55.397-04:00Avon Books in Canada Part I<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">T</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">here are nearly 650 posts on this blog. Unsurprisingly, given the blog's masthead, the vast majority are about Canadian paperbacks from the 1940s and 1950s. What isn't explicitly said is that these books are unique offerings from Canadian publishers, not Canadian printings of US or UK published editions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've done a few posts about these other Canadian paperbacks, but here is a first in-depth look at Avon Books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">On
November 21, 1941 the first twelve Avon Books went on sale in the US. Two weeks
later, in the December 6, 1941 <a href="https://200.hc.com/timeline/1941-avon-books-is-established/">issue</a> of <i>Publishers Weekly</i> (<i>PW</i>), the
“new, fast-selling Avon Pocket-Size Books” are advertised for sale. Readers
learn that the “entire first edition was sold out!” and a second is now in
preparation. The advertisement doesn’t mention where the books are sold but
part of that first sold-out edition may have been in Canada.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon
Pocket-Size Books arrived in Canada at the same time they were first seen in US
bookstores, department stores, drug stores, cigar shops and news stands. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">An
advertisement in the Canadian equivalent of </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">PW</i><span style="font-family: verdana;">, </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Quill & Quire</i><span style="font-family: verdana;">
(Vol. 7, No. 11, December, 1941), announced that the Canadian branch of British
publisher Longmans, Green “takes great pleasure in announcing that they have
been appointed [Avon’s] exclusive Canadian representatives.” The US editions
did not have a cover price but the Canadian advertisement notes they will sell
for 39¢. Avon joined Pocket Books, whose agent was also Longmans, Green and had
been selling in Canada for two years, as well as Penguin and Wm. Collins’s
White Circle imprint from the UK. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In these early years the Avons sold in Canada were imported US editions so there is no way to distinguish them from copies sold in the US. Here are a few examples.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e-KLP6QnroTnic02ZileE3h6huwtVyvKg7lC6aKX50c94080uOpUiiSB__hRLf9MrapESLB5WD4i-xqRlHBLbvLeEyG68QzbXEovCWqgx0g4EHPIYo7hieZzUEI010gvBqqvr2556Egk00hKZjSYDg14dufTnzlJzIsv_lKQOswZDMfYvLgibsm6/s2117/img577.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2117" data-original-width="1494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e-KLP6QnroTnic02ZileE3h6huwtVyvKg7lC6aKX50c94080uOpUiiSB__hRLf9MrapESLB5WD4i-xqRlHBLbvLeEyG68QzbXEovCWqgx0g4EHPIYo7hieZzUEI010gvBqqvr2556Egk00hKZjSYDg14dufTnzlJzIsv_lKQOswZDMfYvLgibsm6/s320/img577.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Quill & Quire</i> Vol. 7 No. 11 - December 1941, page 27</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CnCBPNrbEWlLT1x4wuoTBWSMawEydbA87K-z_dlQ9rrY94vVOs7yDjxojrikWw2yEez_7315eebVU9VECitWE_svlx26MQ4V37zVXw3cQ-fVt9bMAw32kv12JdDLFkyOlv5CbNlnZUhnVaTwzit76P1anb1PYVTfBhnJYa1omfSidZDw05q5GPxz/s1273/img580.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CnCBPNrbEWlLT1x4wuoTBWSMawEydbA87K-z_dlQ9rrY94vVOs7yDjxojrikWw2yEez_7315eebVU9VECitWE_svlx26MQ4V37zVXw3cQ-fVt9bMAw32kv12JdDLFkyOlv5CbNlnZUhnVaTwzit76P1anb1PYVTfBhnJYa1omfSidZDw05q5GPxz/s320/img580.jpg" width="218" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon 4 - later printing 1943</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrwxkW_SjJ5znjmETr3T7fjRB00pSFvss9MsO78CLMpQL7k-viq_NRYctWy_R7d_9WkazjDv1tScrhRqhNUz9MBgSVHCi6egDLkDCHS9yoFX-b-cbe5iqx0htQKwNnSSnQP02b6DRTETfacTz5f2Txnc8Xisva7J3Hjz7qs_cmbOxViR7EWmjd7O4/s1291/img578.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1291" data-original-width="878" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrwxkW_SjJ5znjmETr3T7fjRB00pSFvss9MsO78CLMpQL7k-viq_NRYctWy_R7d_9WkazjDv1tScrhRqhNUz9MBgSVHCi6egDLkDCHS9yoFX-b-cbe5iqx0htQKwNnSSnQP02b6DRTETfacTz5f2Txnc8Xisva7J3Hjz7qs_cmbOxViR7EWmjd7O4/s320/img578.jpg" width="218" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon 11 - 1941</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNl-zP9mLm-TTDdwbKoAsJl7F4OWjXUpNRDDj5E0rReFL5q4_bHBcB8OhpNP84Ol9kZ0tqzYc_BkgUncMdK-1wRovPvGFsuVhoUVefAITqESF5dWgh4Wdqj22BSz9jMAhQ77Qr2Zw8sJDWMJsu8dGpBsY_n9ui-FByR_tRFK8U4S4XAecQPGXmqwv/s1274/img581.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="878" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNl-zP9mLm-TTDdwbKoAsJl7F4OWjXUpNRDDj5E0rReFL5q4_bHBcB8OhpNP84Ol9kZ0tqzYc_BkgUncMdK-1wRovPvGFsuVhoUVefAITqESF5dWgh4Wdqj22BSz9jMAhQ77Qr2Zw8sJDWMJsu8dGpBsY_n9ui-FByR_tRFK8U4S4XAecQPGXmqwv/s320/img581.jpg" width="221" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avon 24 - 1943</span></div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-38966014203053982732022-11-04T10:03:00.006-03:002022-11-18T06:12:48.846-04:00Harlequin's Historical Novels Part IV<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">"If the historical novel continues to exert a particular fascination on our imagination, it surely has to do with its curious ability to reclaim the past, to use it as a tool for shattering the sameness - the inevitability - of the present."</span><br />
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<span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Steven Hayward, <i>Globe & Mail</i> February 25, 2012</span><br />
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<span>This comment in a review of a historical novel caught my attention. </span><br />
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<span>Do any of Toronto publisher Harlequin's 45 historical novels by 30 authors that showed up in Canadian newsstands and drug stores between 1949 and 1959 "reclaim the past"? I don't know. I haven't read any and would need some training to assess how a novel might "reclaim the past". So I'll use the comment as an excuse to list the novels and show off a few covers. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><div>Harlequin # 1 - The Manatee - Nancy Bruff - 1949 </div><div>Harlequin # 11 - The Wicked Lady Skelton - Magdalen King Hall - 1949 (reprinted as #181)</div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><div>Harlequin # 31 - The Golden Feather - Theda Kenyon - 1950 </div><div>Harlequin # 34 - Mobtown Clipper - S.S. Rabl - 1950 </div><div>Harlequin # 65 Bridewell Beauty - H.M.E. Clamp - 1950 </div><div>Harlequin # 113 - Beyond The Blue Mountains - Jean Plaidy - 1951 </div><div>Harlequin # 138 - Emma Hart - Lozania Prole - 1951 </div><div>Harlequin # 141 - Roger Sudden - Thomas H. Raddall - 1951 </div><div>Harlequin # 152 - Great Oaks - Ben Ames Williams - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 164 - Captain For Elizabeth - Jan Westcott - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 169 - Lady Of Cleves - Margaret Campbell Barnes - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 170 - The Sea Is So Wide - Evelyn Eaton - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 178 - The Goldsmith's Wife - Jean Plaidy - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 179 - Madame Serpent - Jean Plaidy - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 184 - Black Jade - Angeline Taylor - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 189 - The Nymph And The Lamp - Thomas H. Raddall - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 190 - Slave Ship - H.B. Drake - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 193 - The Firebrand - George Challis - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 196 - His Majesty's Yankees - Thomas H. Raddall - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 203 - Daughter Of Satan - Jean Plaidy - 1952 </div><div>Harlequin # 207 - Three Ships West - Harry Symons - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 208 - Pillar Of Fire - George Borodin - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 209 - The Rock Cried Out - Edward Stanley - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 215 - Turn Back The River - W.G. Hardy - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 217 - The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 225 - Sir Rusty Sword - Phillip Lindsay - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 237 - Island Of Escape - Alexander Key - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 247 - Dark Surgery - Ben Ames Williams - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 261 - Light In The Wilderness - E.B. Osler - 1953 </div><div>Harlequin # 266 - Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 268 - The Unholy Woman - Jean Plaidy - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 269 - Queen Jezebel - Jean Plaidy - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 272 - The Fabulous Nell Gwynne - Lozania Prole - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 276 - Conflict - E.V. Timms - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 278 - The Bait And The Trap - George Challis - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 280 - The Nut Brown Maid - Philip Lindsay - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 286 - Colonel Blood - Max Peacock - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 290 - The Violent Years - E.V. Timms - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 298 - Pride's Fancy - Thomas H. Raddall - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 301 - Mary Read, Buccaneer - Philip Rush - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 303 - Captain Gentleman - Verne Fletcher - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 318 - The Half-Breed - M. Constantin-Weyer - 1954 </div><div>Harlequin # 330 - Convict Town - E.V. Timms - 1955 </div><div>Harlequin # 331 - Woman in Chains - E.V. Timms - 1955 </div><div>Harlequin # 373 - Tonight, Josephine! - Lozania Prole - 1956 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMccXP8QUIU8dikNiUocMpNNORLTFIFVdpGXXR07hicMITwk7-xX7CKK_0o54oq_Kr89VZc_D2Cay365-J6wtJBGO97na5j5blS1UEgcTvr11ZNMnIYxRnvhw6X1DwcG7TrCoVrXh4ZPBgvIQWQ6Da-MRaoHGcJvyYF7st02ZnaqQ5nbkte8ECwITh/s2667/HAR11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="1612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMccXP8QUIU8dikNiUocMpNNORLTFIFVdpGXXR07hicMITwk7-xX7CKK_0o54oq_Kr89VZc_D2Cay365-J6wtJBGO97na5j5blS1UEgcTvr11ZNMnIYxRnvhw6X1DwcG7TrCoVrXh4ZPBgvIQWQ6Da-MRaoHGcJvyYF7st02ZnaqQ5nbkte8ECwITh/s320/HAR11.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harlequin 11 - September 1949</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia40vm1fqlWqPbjR-3POPQc5Hl9eKnRQrsmcbJjzQcEE-uvHqYj7jfqeBNOkRSJGJNnFpwMSrU11vQkMlAIDGK3Nq6XgA_qdSVDCiAE7IJOQXA4K0Ln4GQORleZXnHmbxCemPSJt9JH5sX-R5VJHpJYye_BHfgL3eB63qU1v4qTKvvM9_9hcg-Xfth/s2642/HAR31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2642" data-original-width="1671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia40vm1fqlWqPbjR-3POPQc5Hl9eKnRQrsmcbJjzQcEE-uvHqYj7jfqeBNOkRSJGJNnFpwMSrU11vQkMlAIDGK3Nq6XgA_qdSVDCiAE7IJOQXA4K0Ln4GQORleZXnHmbxCemPSJt9JH5sX-R5VJHpJYye_BHfgL3eB63qU1v4qTKvvM9_9hcg-Xfth/s320/HAR31.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harlequin 31 - February 1950</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcRMBjsnwn3wBLc9vvYkOmtqlQ9qnh5Oy8OSkOwJelo_yqEVUbLyMEcP9f2sbbLhgn6qvhLm3h2BVmh1X6w61kwNJvTfemU38sZoEOjew77AZ5zJHWEymG6NDR2q2HPuqkweszXvctNRTPtaxVUtcNjeFqbtk-GQwhVuE9m-EICsaeW7awkfPao-J/s2609/HAR65.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2609" data-original-width="1669" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcRMBjsnwn3wBLc9vvYkOmtqlQ9qnh5Oy8OSkOwJelo_yqEVUbLyMEcP9f2sbbLhgn6qvhLm3h2BVmh1X6w61kwNJvTfemU38sZoEOjew77AZ5zJHWEymG6NDR2q2HPuqkweszXvctNRTPtaxVUtcNjeFqbtk-GQwhVuE9m-EICsaeW7awkfPao-J/s320/HAR65.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harlequin 65 - August 1950</div></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAJNY8ob9w2_nCKZrWGUC7RFKrDW9P-9C2sZkCam78tXazDEATR91uMWuncpo6fb43Z_1RidFAchu2MmhWhmXoBdTelgNqh-giyvX9bxhme6TykZT8szKD_KVaCTJc1BEqhMRAguObqoT6AicntOG7b23woYrfWXsDa6KGXdSjga9O597sa0zaflD/s2680/HAR141.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2680" data-original-width="1646" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAJNY8ob9w2_nCKZrWGUC7RFKrDW9P-9C2sZkCam78tXazDEATR91uMWuncpo6fb43Z_1RidFAchu2MmhWhmXoBdTelgNqh-giyvX9bxhme6TykZT8szKD_KVaCTJc1BEqhMRAguObqoT6AicntOG7b23woYrfWXsDa6KGXdSjga9O597sa0zaflD/s320/HAR141.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harlequin 141 - December 1951</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LvHsObijTvess9NEdYPNMoA6w1eAJDqk0Vq0t47e5fmrgY531uzHb3tXe1MEmUQS4bEMeiNgjHluAo-sN66qEhLx3LlA4TzWlTQ9HUNQWSahObdh0IczlSwSvQsXeN-Alvnjcptc5Ab5HqseLbDMuGjgC4z83qS21faM7PWEdPX3kbgyqrdmXSCT/s1982/HAR170.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1982" data-original-width="1228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LvHsObijTvess9NEdYPNMoA6w1eAJDqk0Vq0t47e5fmrgY531uzHb3tXe1MEmUQS4bEMeiNgjHluAo-sN66qEhLx3LlA4TzWlTQ9HUNQWSahObdh0IczlSwSvQsXeN-Alvnjcptc5Ab5HqseLbDMuGjgC4z83qS21faM7PWEdPX3kbgyqrdmXSCT/s320/HAR170.jpg" width="198" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harlequin 170 - May 1952</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Collins Sons & Co. Canada Ltd. The series had lasted 10 years. Collins publicized the series in the usual way - ads in newspapers and bookstore display. Here is an example of a bookstore promotion.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The sign is about two feet long and was originally at the bottom of a wood display case. The price helps date the sign. The first White Circle with a price is #55 (<i>Death Takes a Flat</i>) from spring 1943 but it doesn't look like the sign's version. The first one that does (with small differences) is #74 (<i>Tunnel From Calais</i>), the first book published in the fall of 1943. Examples below. The last White Circle to have a price is #225 (<i>The Commandos</i>) from the fall of 1944 (note: there are no books with numbers 119-199). So the sign dates from fall 1943 to fall 1944.</span><br />
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</div>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233333470515656205.post-87155573309901235792022-11-02T16:04:00.000-03:002022-11-02T16:04:15.863-03:00A Discovery<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recently learned (thanks Morgan) about an early Canadian mass market paperback that I did not know existed. It joins another book in a series that I had always thought was the only one published.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The publishing history for these two books is confusing to say the least. Both title pages list the publisher as "The National Publishing Company" of Toronto. On unnumbered page seven National is repeated with a 1945-46 copyright date. The inside front cover notes two other companies. The first is "Century Publications Ltd." with a 1946 copyright date below that. Below that is "Printed by Duchess Printing and Publishing Co. Limited", also in Toronto. The cover, inside front cover and spine have a circle with "A Superior Publication" around a maple leaf. The back cover has a larger version of the circle. Both books are 256 pages. Neither book has signed art work which is by the same artist.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The two books are:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Damned Lover </i>by Roswell Williams. First published 1933, The Macaulay Company of New York.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Some Take a Lover </i>by Ann Du Pre (pseudonym for Grace Lumpkin). First published 1933, The Macaulay Company.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Duchess/Superior connection is seen on a number of other books. For example see one <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2020/11/duchess-publishing-part-i.html">here</a> and a non-Duchess Superior <a href="https://canadianfly-by-night.blogspot.com/2013/06/superior-publishers-part-i.html">here</a>. But these are the only two (so far) with National as the publisher. The Century listing is a mystery. There was a Century in <a href="http://bookscans.com/Publishers/century/century1.htm">Chicago</a> that published paperbacks circa 1945-1947 but not these two books. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXafLIBF_594MoGUuCIdftV3j4O92etXtCb_YpReSzqJSUDMLlk0oCZUKpXDU0y85k60tqPeXKfNXLlK_NJ1NtkfYCZLOvypqnzZMRW5-3_ucrcwYicfkjDbaXW8p7tm3htTFFj_U37EecMDnyGbQeMfnDHLhIs5MrSbmuKE1carm9MYbarj8omRk9/s1266/NationalSuperior%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="886" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXafLIBF_594MoGUuCIdftV3j4O92etXtCb_YpReSzqJSUDMLlk0oCZUKpXDU0y85k60tqPeXKfNXLlK_NJ1NtkfYCZLOvypqnzZMRW5-3_ucrcwYicfkjDbaXW8p7tm3htTFFj_U37EecMDnyGbQeMfnDHLhIs5MrSbmuKE1carm9MYbarj8omRk9/s320/NationalSuperior%201.jpg" width="224" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Damned Lover - 1945/46</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqkgsEBO0aI_NNQ68Kt5GWF86LwGsrIfQdrw3R78bbXPAzWkx7cXkUH-wFYLOHQjfdqat5s_T5nbXHIob6Qqz4Ietsb3gy8Xe3cZFBrxFMiaVA5BoSaZ2XgkYdwgWx24OHfVjcZDZ5VHug2HaNF-C5zbUQkkQ3-W8PFR5FGmCMW9JC3WK0cudReVTS/s1272/NationalSuperior%201%20back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="910" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqkgsEBO0aI_NNQ68Kt5GWF86LwGsrIfQdrw3R78bbXPAzWkx7cXkUH-wFYLOHQjfdqat5s_T5nbXHIob6Qqz4Ietsb3gy8Xe3cZFBrxFMiaVA5BoSaZ2XgkYdwgWx24OHfVjcZDZ5VHug2HaNF-C5zbUQkkQ3-W8PFR5FGmCMW9JC3WK0cudReVTS/s320/NationalSuperior%201%20back.jpg" width="229" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Damned Lover back</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fuhFpoevsAcxfnchgP64CoQQj9j-BgUM2-6RxkMtfCWLO_wYQsqMHLq7cYQLIRr_TYwQSweUxV0oCpDT9449vPeXbGBzZnJ8YGBJ-RXaAKD1PoHH5Fb5Nnbl-OnLGT0foCm36kXMvtHxSK6qGJY4lSZm53eXY1YGlUzEmpWLhRukIoUzV-pua6kz/s3350/IMG-7354.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3350" data-original-width="2235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fuhFpoevsAcxfnchgP64CoQQj9j-BgUM2-6RxkMtfCWLO_wYQsqMHLq7cYQLIRr_TYwQSweUxV0oCpDT9449vPeXbGBzZnJ8YGBJ-RXaAKD1PoHH5Fb5Nnbl-OnLGT0foCm36kXMvtHxSK6qGJY4lSZm53eXY1YGlUzEmpWLhRukIoUzV-pua6kz/s320/IMG-7354.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some Take a Lover - 1945/46</span></div><p></p>bowdlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09504137974544195250noreply@blogger.com0