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Previously Aviation Stories and Mechanics.

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1929

v1 #1
Apr

v1 #2
Jul

v1 #3
Oct

1930

v1 #4
Apr v2 #1
Jul

Avocations

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1937

v1 #1
Oct

The Avon Annual (about)

Short-lived annual reprinting “great modern stories” or “great stories of today”.

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1944
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1945
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1946
# 3

1947
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Avon Detective Mysteries (about)

Arguably a reprint anthology like Avon Fantasy Reader, though it carried a few new stories.

Publishers: Avon Book Company; 432 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, NY.

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1947

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Avon Fantasy Reader (about)

A series of digest-sized anthologies. Don Day indexed them as magazines and SF fans have traditionally considered them as such, but Don Wollheim was clear on the subject: “The Avon Fantasy Reader was not a periodical nor a magazine. It had no set time for appearance, and it was always scheduled only single issue by single issue. It is copyrighted as a book, as an original anthology, and such are its copyright listings. (U.S. law requires periodicals to publish annual ownership and circulation figures. The AFR published no such statements and cannot be considered a periodical, regardless of its physical appearance. Hence issues are not dated as such.) I consider still that this was a series of anthologies. The material in each issue was purchased as a one-shot anthology second-rights (usually) proposition.”

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1947

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1948
#6
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1949
#9
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#11

1950
#12
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1951
#15
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1952
#18

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.

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1943
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1944
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1945
#21
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1946
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1947
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1948
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1949
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1950 #51

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