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Famous Story Magazine

The Famous Story Magazine [v 1 #1, October 1925] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Famous Story Publishing Co., Inc., The, 25¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by F. Gratz Farish) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP]

Famous Story Magazine [# 5, February 1926] (Delacorte, 25¢, pulp) This is an upmarket pulp, one that I’ve never seen before, published by Delacorte (John Locke’s checklist has it as beginning in October 1925 and having produced just the five issues — though he admits that’s an estimate). Non-pictorial cover. Advertising section to the fore (but not aft) on non-pulp paper. About 140 pages in total. It’s an all-reprint magazine, subtitled “The World’s Best Stories from Modern and Classic Literature” — and as such it’s pretty much an exact equivalent of two British pulps of the same period which I have seen: the Amalgamated Press’s Argosy (from 1926; nothing to do with the U.S. Argosy) and Hutchinson’s Best Story (1926-1928?). But this particular American example contains the most amazingly eclectic line-up of stuff I’ve ever seen between one set of magazine covers. There are three pages of poems from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, plus sundry other short poems (Byron, etc) and pages of literary “tasters” (brief quotes from this and that — these last closely resembling the ones which ran between the stories in the British Argosy). [DP:985]

The Famous Story Magazine [v 3 #2, May 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. (The Famous Story Publishing Co., Inc., 25¢, pulp, cover by Regnault) from TOC only. [JL]

The Famous Story Magazine [v 4 #1, July 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. (The Famous Story Publishing Co., Inc., 25¢) from TOC; taken from grainy image—beware of potential errors. [JL]

The Famous Story Magazine (US) [v 6 #2, February 1927] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. (Famous Story Publishing Co., Inc., 25¢, 144pp, pulp) [DKL]

The Famous Story Magazine (UK)

The Famous Story Magazine (UK) [v 1 #1, February 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd., 1/-, 128pp, pulp, cover by F. Gratz Farish) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] Reprint of the October 1925 (US) issue.

The Famous Story Magazine (UK) [v 1 #2, March 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd., 1/-, 153-280pp, pulp) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] Reprint of the November 1925 (US) issue.

The Famous Story Magazine (UK) [v 1 #3, April 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd., 1/-, 297-424pp, pulp) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] Reprint of the December 1925 (US) issue.

The Famous Story Magazine (UK) [v 2 #1, May 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd., 1/-, 144pp, pulp) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] Reprint of the January 1926 (US) issue.

The Famous Story Magazine (UK) [v 2 #2, June 1926] ed. George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd., 1/-, 145-288pp, pulp) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] Reprint of the February 1926 (US) issue.

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