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Argosy (UK) [Vol. XXXV No. 2, February 1974] (IPC Magazines, 25p, 128pp, digest)
This issue contains a Publisher’s Announcement stating that “Argosy is to merge with the literary monthly Books and Bookmen to combine in a joint publication to be called Books and Bookmen & Argosy”.

2 · The Helping Hand · Barr Darvel · ss

10 · Terrorist · Richard Young · ss

19 · The Amazing Madam Georgina · Ivor Dean · ar

23 · [cartoon] · Clew · ct

24 · Second Time Hanged · Margaret Mitchiner · ar

32 · Try, Try Again! · Various · ms

34 · The Florentine Cat · Nan Wishart · ss

37 · [cartoon] · Quanda · ct

38 · Looking for the Footprint · Rearden Conner · ss

54 · The Scales of Justice · Catherine Aird · ss

58 · Retreat from Winter · Wilfred Gavin-Brown · pm

59 · The Great Silence · V. Humpherson · ss

64 · The Lost Patrol · Douglas Railton · ss

71 · A Windy Day in Town · Canon Norman Power · pm

72 · Return Journey · John Banville · ss

82 · The Farmer’s Wife · Doreen Dade · ss

89 · A Horse for the Desert · A. D. Parkinson · ss

99 · Pink Palace Syndrome · Robert Quigley · ss

102 · [cartoon] · Morris · ct

103 · Leopard in the Garden · Evelyn Swanson · ss

109 · Man of Money · Kurt Fleischmann · ar

114 · The Dead Stay Cold · John Davies · ss

120 · Blisters in May · Jack Ritchie · ss The Diners Club Magazine March 1965

123 · [cartoon] · Walker · ct

124 · Bookshelf · [uncredited] · br

128 · Argosy Crossword · [uncredited] · pz

Argosy (UK, 2013) (about)
Short-lived magazine that claimed to be a “revival of the classic pulp format for the digital age”.

Argosy (UK) [Volume 1: Fantastic Frontiers, December 2013] ed. Daniel Bazinga (Argosy Magazine, £4.99, 175pp, pb, cover by Tais Teng)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Martian Falcon · Andrew J. Lucas · nv

29 · Marshal Jones’s Hunt · James Hoffmeister · nv

70 · Parsec Hiccup · Lancer Kind · ss

83 · Summers in the Snow · Clay Sheldon · ss

99 · Kila S Tidwell (2204-2287) · Shombuddha Majumdar · ss

112 · Falling · William Meikle · nv

135 · Last Stand of the Calaveras Kid · Cynthia Ward · ss

143 · The Valley of the Lost · Robert E. Howard · nv Startling Mystery Stories Spring 1967, as “The Secret of Lost Valley”

Argosy (UK) [Volume 2: Pulp Modern, February 2014] ed. Daniel Bazinga (Argosy Magazine, £4.99, 172pp, pb, cover by Brendan Azzano)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Beat of Heavy Wings · Kurt Newton · nv

46 · Your Basic Plot · Curtis James McConnell · nv

91 · Illegal Aliens · G. Lloyd Helm · nv

116 · Hidden · Peter Glassborow · nv

Argosy (UK) [Volume 3: Collapsed Binary, Issue 1, (August) 2016] ed. Daniel Bazinga (Argosy Magazine, $1.99, 71pp, ebook)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

· Foreword · Daniel Bazinga · fw

· Cargo · Clay Sheldon · ss

· Coffin Drop · Curtis James McConnell · ss Bluewood Publishing 2008

· Private Sector · Daniel Moore · ss

The Avon Annual (about)
Short-lived annual reprinting “great modern stories” or “great stories of today”.

The Avon Annual [#1, 1944] ed. Whit Burnett (Avon Book Company, 35¢, 200pp, digest)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

11 · “Shark” Wicks · John Steinbeck · ss (r)

26 · The Enemy · Pearl S. Buck · nv Harper’s Magazine November 1942

44 · A Wreath for Tony · Dorothy Thompson · ss (r)

60 · Two Fishermen · Morley Callaghan · ss Esquire February 1934, as “Who Is My Neighbor?”

68 · The Shepherd’s Daughter · William Saroyan · ss Story May 1934

71 · Winter Voyage · H. L. Mencken · ss (r)

77 · The Dream of Angelo Zara · Guido D’Agostino · ss Story September/October 1942

85 · My Musical Life · Clarence Day · ss (r)

96 · Here We Are · Dorothy Parker · ss Cosmopolitan March 1931

105 · The Negro in the Well · Erskine Caldwell · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1935

111 · The City Was in Total Darkness · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 30 1941

124 · The Cats Which Cried · Whit Burnett · ss Story June 1933

137 · This Healthy Life · Vicki Baum · ss Story September/October 1942

145 · Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! · Martha Foley · ss Story July 1936

155 · The Valet of the Splendide · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss The New Yorker October 25 1941

162 · The Night the Bed Fell · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker July 8 1933

166 · The Captive · Luigi Pirandello · ss Story January 1935

182 · Roof Sitter · Frances Eisenberg · ss Story May/June 1939

The Avon Annual [#2, 1945] (Avon Book Company, 35¢, 200pp, digest)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

11 · Lord Mountdrago · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan February 1939, as “Doctor and Patient”

30 · The Pond · Louis Bromfield · nv Cosmopolitan August 1944

50 · The Man Who Looked Like Edison · Ben Ames Williams · ss Cosmopolitan May 1921

57 · To a Sharp Knife · Dashiell Hammett · ss (r)

69 · Paul Revere’s Ride · Robert Benchley · ss (r)

73 · Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Good Housekeeping February 1933

94 · Two Soldiers · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 28 1942

107 · Cocks Must Crow · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 25 1939

123 · Ballad of Dead Reporters · Ben Hecht · ss 1001 Afternoons in New York by Ben Hecht, Viking Press, 1941

126 · Junior Miss · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker October 28 1939

131 · Return of Queen Agnes · Whit Burnett · ss Story November/December 1931

135 · Love · Jesse Stuart · vi Story May/June 1940

138 · Lily Daw and the Three Ladies · Eudora Welty · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1937

146 · A Sunday in April · James T. Farrell · ss (r)

155 · The Story of the Stranger · John Cournos · ss John o’ London’s Weekly December 19 1931

163 · Full Fathom Five · Alexander Woollcott · ss The New Yorker June 22 1929

166 · Big Buck · Erskine Caldwell · ss College Humor September 1939

174 · The Undefeated · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925

The Avon Annual [#3, 1946] (Avon Book Company, 35¢, 199pp, digest)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

· The Origin of Tularecito · John Steinbeck · ss The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932

· Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers · Ben Hecht · nv Collier’s January 16 1943

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· The Great Façade · Louis Bromfield · ss Cosmopolitan March 1944

· Gunners’ Passage · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944

· I Love You, I Love You, I Love You · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss (r)

· Flowers for Marjorie · Eudora Welty · ss (r)

· Jacob and the Indians · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 14 1938

· The Door That Would Not Stay Closed · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Good Housekeeping June 1941

· Horsie · Dorothy Parker · ss Harper’s Bazaar December 1932

· The Green Elephant · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Smart Set October 1923

· Kneel to the Rising Sun · Erskine Caldwell · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1935

· A Nice Old Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics and Everything · William Saroyan · ss (r)

· The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1933, as “Give Us a Prescription, Doctor”

· The Three Fat Women of Antibes · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan October 1933

The Avon Annual [#4, 1947] (Avon Book Company, 35¢, 132pp, digest)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

· The Ballplayer · Samuel Elkin · ss (r)

· American Nocturne · Robert Whitehand · ss American Prefaces December 1935

· Down with the Restoration · S. J. Perelman · ss The New Yorker January 29 1938

· Big Two-Hearted River [Part 1 of 2] · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Spring 1925

· Walk Along the Charles River · Irwin Shaw · ss (r)

· The Old Mother · Pearl S. Buck · ss (r)

· At Schoharie Crossing · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Forum June 1929

· Glory in the Daytime · Dorothy Parker · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1933

· Hodel · Sholom Aleichem · ss (r)

· The Benefit Concert · Rhys Davies · ss The Trip to London by Rhys Davies, Howell Soskin, 1945

· The Diamond as Big as the Ritz · F. Scott Fitzgerald · na The Smart Set June 1922

Avon Modern Short Story Monthly (about)
A halfway house between a magazine and paperback anthology series, this was a generic title for a series of (mainly) single-author reprint collections which ran for a number of years.

Publishers:

Avon Book Company, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, New York.: Avon Modern Short Story Monthly.

Avon Modern Short Story Monthly [#1, 1943] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, digest)
Reprints Cosmopolitans by W. Somerset Maugham (Heinemann, 1936).
Details taken from eBay listing.

· Raw Material · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan November 1923, as “The Imposters”

· Mayhew · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan December 1923

· German Harry · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan January 1924

· The Happy Man · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan June 1924

· The Dream · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan May 1924

· In a Strange Land · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1924

· The Luncheon · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan March 1924

· Salvatore · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan July 1924, as “Salvatore the Fisherman”

· Home · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan September 1924, as “Home from the Sea”

· Mr. Know-All · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan January 1925

· The Escape · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1925, as “A Widow’s Might”

· A Friend in Need · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan April 1925, as “The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly”

· The Portrait of a Gentleman · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan June 1925, as “The Code of a Gentleman”

· The End of the Flight · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Harper’s Bazar January 1926

· The Judgement Seat · W. Somerset Maugham · vi The Judgement Seat by W. Somerset Maugham, Centaur Press, 1934

· The Ant and the Grasshopper · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan October 1924

· French Joe · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan January 1926, as “Without a Country”

· The Man with the Scar · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan October 1925

· The Poet · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan November 1925, as “The Great Man”

· Louise · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan September 1925, as “The Most Selfish Woman I Knew”

· The Closed Shop · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Harper’s Bazar September 1926

· The Promise · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan December 1925, as “An Honest Woman”

· A String of Beads · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1927, as “Pearls”

· The Bum · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1929, as “A Derelict”

· Straight Flush · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan April 1929

· The Verger · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan June 1929, as “The Man Who Made His Mark”

· The Wash-Tub · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan January 1929, as “In Hiding”

· The Social Sense · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan March 1929, as “The Extraordinary Sex”

· The Four Dutchmen · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan December 1928

Avon Modern Short Story Monthly [#2, 1943] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, digest)
Reprints Files on Parade by John O’Hara (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939).
Details supplied by Richard Fidczuk.

· Foreword · John O’Hara · fw 1939

· Price’s—Always Open · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker August 14 1937

· Trouble in 1949 · John O’Hara · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1938

· The Cold House · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 2 1938

· Days · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 30 1938

· Are We Leaving Tomorrow? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker March 19 1938

· Portistan on the Portis · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker November 23 1935

· Lunch Tuesday · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 3 1937

· Shave · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker March 20 1937

· Sidesaddle · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker November 5 1938

· No Mistakes · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker September 17 1938

· Brother · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker July 18 1936

· Saffercisco · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 11 1936

· Ice Cream · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker July 20 1935

· Peggy · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 17 1937

· And You Want a Mountain · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker June 11 1938

· Pal Joey [Pal Joey] · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker October 22 1938

· Ex-Pal [Pal Joey] · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker November 26 1938

· How I Am Now in Chi [Pal Joey] · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 1 1939

· Bow Wow [Pal Joey] · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker May 13 1939

· Give and Take · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 13 1937

· The Gentleman in the Tan Suit · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker 1935

· Good-by, Herman · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker September 4 1937

· I Could Have Had a Yacht · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 6 1935

· Richard Wagner: Public Domain? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker September 3 1938

· Olive · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker August 17 1935

· It Wouldn’t Break Your Arm · John O’Hara · ss Harper’s Bazaar January 1935

· My Girls · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker May 29 1937

· No Sooner Said · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker July 31 1937

· Invite · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker December 10 1938

· All the Girls He Wanted · John O’Hara · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1934

· By Way of Yonkers · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 27 1937

· Most Gorgeous Thing · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker March 7 1936

· A Day Like Today · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker August 6 1938

· Do You Like It Here? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 18 1939

· The Ideal Man · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker April 29 1939

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