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The New York Ledger

Country: US
Total Issues: 2236

The most successful story paper of its day. Published Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs Southworth, Charles Dickens, Sylvanus Cobb. Circulation reached 400,000 in 1860.

Issues & Index Sources

20-Jan-1847 – 1855, as The Merchant's Ledger

1855 – 1898, as The New York Ledger:	Dime Novel Bibliography	(sample issues only)
	FictionMags Index	(sample issues only)

1898 – 7-Dec-1903, as The Ledger Monthly:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

  1847 – 1851: D. Anson Pratt
  1851 – 1886: Robert Bonner
  1887 – 1901: Robert Bonner's sons
  1901 – 1903: Ledger Company

Editors

  1847 – 1851: D. Anson Pratt
  1851 – 1887: Robert Bonner
  1887 – 1894: Mayo Heseltine
  1894 – 1901: Robert Bonner, Jr.

Formats

large tabloid story-paper (22" x 14")

Pagecounts

4pp at outset, then 8pp

Frequency

  1846 – 1847: daily
  1847 – 1898: weekly
  1898 – 1903: monthly

Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  1900 – 1901

Publishers:   Dike
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 50?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York, NY
Formats:   7 x 4 3/4"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   150 to 200
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 30?

Issues & Index Sources:  1901: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)

Publishers:   I & M Ottenheimer, 321 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD
Formats:   7 x 4 1/2"
Pagecounts:   150
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Lights

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3?

Flagellation magazine containing various stories about corporal punishment and a correspondence section on the same. Despite appearing to be a US magazine this magazine has only ever been seen in the UK and is believed to have been published there.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1937:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: #2; any after #3)

Publishers: Detinuer Publishing Co.


Issue Checklist

The New York Mercury

Country: US
Total Issues: 1479

Issues & Index Sources:  1838 – 1867

Publishers:   Cauldwell & Whitney
Formats:   tabloid story paper
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Mercury Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1860s

Publishers:   Frederick A. Brady
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The New York Mirror

Country: US
Total Issues: 364?

A weekly gazette of literature and the fine arts.

Issues & Index Sources: 2-Aug-1823 – 3-Jul-1860

Publishers:   G.P. Morris, NY
Editors:   S, Woodworth to 24-Jul-1824, then G.P. Morris
Frequency:   weekly

New York Monthly Fashion Bazaar

Country: US

Interspersed with the , there were fashion plates of both children's and women's clothing, small filler items such as a paragraph entitled "Persian Cats", instructions for fancy work, such as embroidered toilet-cushion covers and embroidered ribbons and worsted braid

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Nov-1879 – 1885

Publishers:   George Munro
Related Sites:   American Women's Dime Novel Project
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Nickel Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  1896 – 1897

Publishers:   Dike Book Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Nights

Country: US
Total Issues: 6?+15=21?

Issues & Index Sources

Summer 1933 – Jun-1934:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Dec-1935 – Mar-1937:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Summer 1933 – Jun-1934: Bow-Man Publishing Corp., 115 West 27th St., New York City
Dec-1935 – Mar-1937: H.M. Publishing Co.

Formats

saddle-stitched pulp

Mentioned in: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



Issue Checklist

The New York Novelist [1887]

Country: US
Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources:  1887: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)

Publishers:   John B. Alden Publishing, 393 Pearl St., New York, NY
Formats:   5 x 7.4"
Prices:   50c per year
Pagecounts:   25-200
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

New York Novelist [1893]

Country: US
Total Issues: 23

Issues & Index Sources:  2-Dec-1893 – 5-May-1894: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Fraser Lockwood, 35 Frankfort St., New York, NY
Formats:   9 1/2 x 12 1/8"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography