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Aldine Football Novels

Total Issues: 88+4=92

Contained a complete 50,000 word novel each issue; the second series reprinted titles from earlier series.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1925 – Jan-1932:

Story Paper Index

(Missing: #53, #54, #60)

Jan-1933 – 1933?:

Story Paper Index

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Formats

205x145mm; 185x130mm from #65

Prices

4½d; 4d from #65

Frequency

irregular; monthly from Sep-1925

Aldine Football Stories

Total Issues: 12 (numbered)

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1922 – Feb-1923:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Editors:   Walter H. Light
Prices:   3d
Frequency:   irregular

Aldine Garfield Boys' Journal

see under Garfield Boys' Journal

The Aldine Half-Holiday Library

Total Issues: 904

Incorporates True Blue from 6 Jun-1906, Aldine Detective Tales.

Issues & Index Sources: 6-Sep-1892 – 6-Oct-1910

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Pagecounts:   24pp; 48pp from #802
Frequency:   weekly

The Aldine Heart's Delight Library

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: 1892

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Prices:   6d
Frequency:   probably all issued at the same time

Aldine Invention Library

Total Issues: 32+12=44

Re-prints of stories which originally appeared in The Aldine Romance of Invention, Travel and Adventure Library.

Issues & Index Sources

28-Feb-1911 – 1912

Feb-1913 – Apr-1913:

Story Paper Index

(Missing: #7, Mar-1913; #8, Mar-1913; #9, Apr-1913)

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Prices

Pagecounts

32pp

Aldine "Life and Adventure" Library

Total Issues: 3+19=22

It is thought that the original run of this title was intended to be 4 issues with "The Brave Boy of the Basilisk" as the fourth title (a registration copy at the British Library has #4 on the wrapper, subsequently altered in coloured ink to #9 of the later series).

The first four titles of the second series were originally listed as issues 4-7 of the earlier series, but eventually appeared un-numbered except in adverts where their numbers had reverted to 1-4. The series is advertised as running to 20 issues, but #19 is missing from the British Library registration run and may not have appeared (as are the newly numbered 1-3). The Deadwood Dick stories each reprinted five numbers from the Aldine Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library.

Issues & Index Sources

1888

1891 – 1893

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Prices

Aldine Mystery Novels

Total Issues: 28 (numbered)

Contained a complete 40,000 word novel each issue. This was almost certainly aimed at an adult audience but is included here because for the most part it shared the same authors as the more obviously juvenile series.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1925 – Jan-1928:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Editors:   Walter H. Light
Prices:   4d
Frequency:   monthly

Aldine Novels

Total Issues: 16 + ? + 8 + 12 + ? = 36+

Published in various series.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1924 – Jun-1925

Apr-1929 – Nov-1929

Feb-1931

Oct-1931 – Jun-1932

May-1933 – Jul-1933

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Formats

Apr-1929 – Nov-1929: larger size

Prices

  Jun-1924 – Jun-1925: 4½d
  Apr-1929 – Nov-1929: 4½d
  Feb-1931: 4d
  Oct-1931 – Jun-1932: 3d
  May-1933 – Jul-1933: 4d

Frequency

Apr-1929 – Nov-1929: 2 per month

Aldine "O'er Land and Sea" Library

Total Issues: 408

"Many of the novels published originally appeared in the USA. Carried a lot of western fiction, especially Buffalo Bill stories." (John Eggeling)

Stories were around 80,000 words of closely packed type.

Issues & Index Sources: 1890 – 1905:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co., 9, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   4 per month
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography