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1930 Jan 4 Jan 11 Jan 18 Jan 25 Feb 8 Feb 15 Mar 1 Mar 22 Apr 19 Apr 26 Jun 7 Jun 14 Jun 21
1930 Jun 28 Jul 12 Jul 19 Jul 26 Aug 16 Aug 23 Aug 30 Sep 6 Sep 13 Sep 20 Sep 27 Oct 18

1931 Jan 10
Mar 21 Mar 28 Apr 18 May 16 May 23 May 30 Jun 13 Jun 20 Jun 27 Jul 11 Jul 18
1931 Aug 1 Aug 15 Aug 22 Aug 29 Sep 5 Sep 12 Oct 31 Nov 7 Nov 28

1932
Feb 20 Feb 27 Mar 5 Mar 12 Mar 26 Apr 2 Jun 25 Aug 13
Nov 5

1933
Feb 11 Feb 25 Mar 25 Apr 1 Apr 15 Apr 22 Apr 29 May 6 May 20 Jun 10 Jun 17 Jun 24
1937 Jan 16 Jan 23 Feb 13 Mar 27 Apr 3 Apr 10 Apr 17 Apr 24 May 22 Jun 5 Jul 3 Jul 24 Aug 7
1937 Aug 14 Aug 21 Aug 28 Sep 4 Sep 11 Sep 18 Oct 9

Here & Now (about)

Small press “magazine of Urban Fantasy.”

Publishers: Bradan Press; Editor.

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2002

#1
Summer

#2
Autumn

2003

#3
Spring

2004

#4
Autumn

2005

#5/6
Spring

#7
Winter

The Hereford Times (about)

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1935

Dec 28

The Hesperian (about)

Edited by Mrs. F. H. Day of San Francisco, 1860 (presumably earlier also)—Oct 1862; from the Nov 1862 issue (Vol 9 No. 1) it is edited by Mrs. E. T. Schenck and Rev. J. D. Strong.

On p. 333 of Vol. 4 Mrs. Day notes that her father was Sheldon Ball.

The magazine publisher offers, in the Sept 1860 issue, to do job printing of every description, from their address: No. 6 Montgomery St. SF. Schenck and Jordan had it printed by someone else.

Mostly non-fiction, poetry, essays, or moral items sometimes disguised as dialogues; also some nice engravings, illustrations of flowers (sometimes colored) and dress and fashion designs and patterns. Size: small Standard, perhaps 6x9. You can guess from the page numbering the issue size; there were no ads to speak of.

One issue contained a two-page argument against the practice of authors leaving their names off their work, or using pseudonyms. Also, the magazine refuses to accept any manuscripts sent in anonymously. However, many of the stories in these issues were printed with no author credited, or credited to Phosphor and so on.

Many engravings are included herein, of the finest quality, and one example was clearly done originally as the frontis for a book on Byron. It seems likely the magazine bought overruns of engravings from book or magazine publishers and stuck them in as frontispieces as an extra benefit for the subscribers.

It’s pretty amazing that this small journal managed to come out in the howling wilderness of the uttermost West of 1860. Well, San Francisco was a pretty sophisticated place for the Old West of the time, and the devil makes work for idle brains.

By the way, the length of the items is my best guess; they didn’t make any claims. They DID run fairly short pieces over more than one issue.

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1860

v4 #1
Mar v4 #2
Apr v4 #3
May v4 #4
Jun v4 #5
Jul v4 #6
Aug v5 #1
Sep v5 #2
Oct v5 #3
Nov v5 #4
Dec

1861 v5 #5
Jan v5 #6
Feb v6 #1
Mar v6 #2
Apr v6 #3
May v6 #4
Jun v6 #5
Jul v6 #6
Aug v7 #1
Sep v7 #2
Oct v7 #3
Nov v7 #4
Dec

1862 v7 #5
Jan v7 #6
Feb v8 #1
Mar v8 #2
Apr v8 #3
May v8 #4
Jun v8 #5
Jul/Aug
v8 #6
Sep/Oct
v9 #1
Nov v9 #2
Dec

1863 v9 #3
Jan v9 #4
Feb v9 #5
Mar v9 #6
Apr

Hesperian (about)

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1931

Spring

HGMFQ (about)

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2002
v 4 #1

Hi-Life (about)

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1958

v1 #1
Mar

1959

v1 #5
May

1963

v5 #3
Jul

1964

v5 #9
Aug