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Argosy (UK) [v6 #9, September 1945] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")
This issue adds the delightful caveat that “Argosy is sold subject to the following conditions, namely, that it shall not, without the written consent of the publishers first given, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of by way of Trade except at the full retail price of 1s 3d.: and that it shall not be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of in a mutilated condition or in any unauthorised cover by way of Trade.”

2 · Happiness · Edward Thomas · ms (r)
3 · Street of Faces · Frank Owen · ss Weird Tales Jul 1943
13 · Auburn Glory · Michael Delarche · ss
17 · Cannery Row · John Steinbeck · n. Viking 1945; condensed.
35 · Papago Wedding · Mary Austin · vi The American Mercury Sep 1925
38 · Sweet Peace · [Various] · ms (r)
41 · Egg in Road · H. A. Manhood · ss Apples by Night, Cape 1932
46 · Walsham-le-Willows · Claude Colleer Abbott · pm Miss Bedell and Other Poems, Chatto & Windus 1924
47 · The Inn That Ran Away · H. A. Brent · ss
55 · To Present My Love · Nicholas Breton · pm (r)
56 · Nosegay · [Various] · ms (r)
59 · Day of Heroes · Jim Tully · ss (r)
65 · The Strange Case of Samuel Proudfoot, Clerk · Clarence Winchester · ss (r)
72 · The Wind in Her Hair · John Buxton · pm (r)
72 · They Say the Earth · John Buxton · pm (r)
73 · Glasgow Phantom [Colin Glencannon] · Guy Gilpatric · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 15 1944
85 · Gus the Gambler · William Saroyan · ss Love, Here Is My Hat, Modern Age Books 1938
90 · My Dainty Duck · [Various] · ms (r)
93 · The Painted Desert · Michael Foster · ss (r)
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v6 #10, October 1945] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Facts · William A. Norris · pm (r)
3 · No. 14 Pony Camp · Barrad · ss (r)
7 · The Last Charge · Edison Marshall · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 10 1939
18 · The Shell’s Song · John Keats · pm (r)
19 · Passing the Love of Women · D. D. Black · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1927
30 · Green Forest · [Various] · ms (r)
33 · Pride of the Village · Peter Neagoe · ss (r)
37 · They Came to a River · Rogelio Sinán; translated by Joan Coyne · ss (r)
47 · The Grand Passion of Lubovski · Richard G. Hubler · vi The New Yorker Sep 23 1944
49 · If You Have Seen · Thomas Moore · pm (r)
50 · Parting the Winds · [Various] · ms (r)
53 · Wax · Gerald Bullett · ss Helen’s Lovers, and Other Tales, Heinemann 1932
60 · The After-Knowing · Gustav Davidson · pm (r)
61 · The Glass Eye · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger, Westhouse 1944
74 · If This Be True · [Various] · ms (r)
77 · Faithful Jenny Dove · Eleanor Farjeon · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Oct 1924
89 · The Wild Horses · Clara Laidlaw · ss Story Jul/Aug 1944
97 · Rider and Mare [from Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run] · John Masefield · pm Macmillan 1920
98 · Police Station · Anon. · qz
99 · A Good Day · Weston Martyr · ss
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v6 #11, November 1945] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")
With this issue the cover design changes to a stylized map with the Argosy ship sailing in the ocean on the bottom left, and the names of the featured authors in a scrolled panel in the middle right.

2 · For Today · J. Gilbert Holland · pm (r)
3 · Breath of the Devil · Allan R. Bosworth · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 12 1945
14 · Grass · Laurence Whistler · pm (r)
15 · Raziya · Christine Weston · ss Tomorrow Feb 1944
23 · Blinker Was a Good Dog · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly 1943
27 · A Baker’z Duzzen Uv Wize Sawz · Edward Rowland Sill · pm The Century Magazine Dec 1888
28 · Mighty Heart · [Various] · ms (r)
31 · The Life and Death of George Wilson · Neil Paterson · nv
53 · The Seal Man · John Masefield · vi The Manchester Guardian Apr 12 1907
55 · Sweet Content · Anon. · pm (r)
56 · Nothing Daunted · [Various] · ms (r)
59 · Crocodile Tears [Colin Glencannon] · Guy Gilpatric · ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 28 1945
75 · O’Halloran and the Little People · Charles H. Connell · ss
80 · Nightmare · [Various] · ms (r)
83 · Rachel · Howard Fast · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 14 1941
99 · Four Poems of Today
99 · Hill-Side Tree · Maxwell Bodenheim · pm (r)
99 · The Pasture · Robert Frost · pm (r)
100 · Water-Lilies · Sara Teasdale · pm (r)
100 · Boy in the Wind · George Dillon · pm (r)
101 · The Sinner · S. D. Wallis · ss (r)
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v6 #12, December 1945] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Winter the Huntsman · Osbert Sitwell · pm (r)
3 · Astonished Father · Bernard Glemser · ss (r)
13 · The Winter Bough · Joseph Joel Keith · pm (r)
14 · Strange Story · E. J. Coatsworth · pm (r)
15 · The Friendly Ghost · Eli Waldron · ss (r)
24 · Gilded Lily · [Various] · ms (r)
27 · Red Wine · Thomas Grant Springer · ss (r)
37 · Nest Egg · Jesse Stuart · ss (r)
45 · The Day My Mother Bit the Tram-Driver · Peter Silsby · ts (r)
50 · Across the Years · [Various] · ms (r)
53 · Devil’s Work · John Lastingham · ss
65 · Sweet Fancy · H. A. Manhood · ss English Story: Fifth Series, ed. Woodrow Wyatt, Collins 1944
69 · Time, Gentlemen, Please · Anon. · qz
71 · Lost Child · Clara Laidlaw · ss (r)
88 · Umbrage Taken · [Various] · ms (r)
91 · Who Pays the Piper · A. C. Malcolm · ss
97 · The Tempting of Michaeleen · Thomas F. Healy · ss (r)
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #1, January 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Carol · Anon. · pm ca. 1400
3 · Codger King · J. T. Story · ss
9 · Early-Shadowed Valley · Michael Foster · ss Liberty Apr 3 1943
20 · Nineteenth-Century Painting · Esther Shephard · pm The New Yorker 1945
21 · Tale of the Long Horse · Peter Spain · ss (r)
25 · Music at Night · Christopher Morley · pm (r)
26 · Christmas · [Various] · ms (r)
29 · A House Licensed · P. L. Howard · ss (r)
35 · Cobra · France Herron · vi
37 · A Glencannon Collection [Colin Glencannon] · Guy Gilpatric · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 16 1945
48 · Having Fun · [Various] · ms (r)
51 · Longest Laugh · C. T. Stoneham · ss
54 · Old Ways · Anon.; translated by Arthur Waley · pm (r)
55 · The Visitor · Henry Treece · ss
64 · If I Were King · [Various] · ms (r)
67 · The Sensitive Goldfish · Christina Stead · ss Salzburg Tales, Appleton 1934
75 · Little Kind of Fellow · John McGhee · ss
80 · Travellers’ Joy · Anon. · qz
81 · The Snuff Box · Margery Sharp · ss The Strand Magazine Mar 1935
94 · Christmas Miniature · Herbert Palmer · pm (r)
95 · Latiká · Aleisha Dutt · ss
99 · Stand-In · Donald Cobbett · vi (r)
101 · Skaiting Party · Charles Dickens · ex The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman & Hall 1837
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #2, February 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Valentine · Anon. · pm (r)
3 · Seed of Greatness · Jacland Marmur · ss Liberty May 6 1944
16 · Love-Lockes · [Various] · ms (r)
19 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener 1941
25 · Old Mike · Bill Naughton · ss
31 · The Red Herring [Captain Gault] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The London Magazine Sep 1914
40 · Treasure · [Various] · ms (r)
43 · The R.A.F. and the Sleeping Beauty · Nigel Kneale · ss; given as by Nigel Neale.
49 · Patience · Charles H. Connell · ss
57 · Hell for Leather · Anon. · pz
58 · Sir Kenelm to the Lady Venetia in 1624 · Christopher Morley · pm (r)
59 · Miss Emmeline Takes Off · Walter Brooks · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 8 1945
72 · To My Son · Siegfried Sassoon · pm (r)
73 · The Trout · Seán O’Faoláin · vi Collier’s May 12 1945
76 · Strong Drink Is Raging · [Various] · ms (r)
79 · Escape of Logan · Edward H. Smith · ss (r)
89 · Thorns for Johnny Spring · Cliff Farrell · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 15 1945
99 · The Strong Grasses · Don Marquis · ss Collier’s Jun 15 1929
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #3, March 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Cities and Thrones and Powers · Rudyard Kipling · pm (r)
3 · Manhandler · Jack London · ss (r)
19 · Unseen · Norman Swan · vi (r)
20 · Virginal · David Morton · pm (r)
21 · Flat Out for Hell · James Stevens · ss (r)
35 · Ally · J. Frank Dobie · ss (r)
40 · Table Talk · [Various] · ms (r)
43 · The Professor and the Mermaid · John Nicholson · ss (r)
54 · Dead of Night · Anon. · pz
55 · The Swan · Pamela Hansford Johnson · ss
61 · Ruffian’s Wife · Dashiell Hammett · ss Sunset: The Pacific Monthly Oct 1925
74 · Philomel with Melody and Obbligato · [Various] · ms (r)
77 · The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber · Ernest Hemingway · nv Cosmopolitan Sep 1936
103 · When I Set Out for Lyonnesse · Thomas Hardy · pm (r)
104 · Happiness · [Various] · ms (r)
107 · The Experts · Mindret Lord · ss Cosmopolitan Jul 1943
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #4, April 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · The Rainbow · Walter de la Mare · pm Songs of Childhood, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902, as by Walter Ramal
3 · Cost of a Fish · Georges Surdez · ss (r)
13 · Monday at Six · Catherine Hubbell · ss Charm 1945
20 · Début · [Various] · ms (r)
23 · Special Delivery · Philip Wylie · ss (r)
33 · Mourning for Ianto · Rhys Davies · ss Esquire Feb 1937
39 · The Case of Lady Talond · Norman Edwards · ss (r)
51 · Money · Richard Armour · pm The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27 1940
52 · Rivers · [Various] · ms (r)
55 · Flight of the Sorrel Mare · Theodore Roberts · ss (r)
67 · In the Dark · Ben Hecht · ss (r)
81 · A Girl Looked On · B. L. Jacot · ss
87 · Tell Me, Gentle Sir... · Anon. · pz
88 · Student of Our Sweet English Tongue · [Various] · ms (r)
91 · Mr. Bertrand · Robert Westerby · ss
98 · Sweet O’ the Year
98 · “Spring goeth all in white” · Robert Bridges · pm (r)
98 · “Now the lusty spring is seen” · John Fletcher · pm (r)
99 · Marble Cage · Elisabeth Kyle · ss (r)
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #5, May 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Tree Talk · T. E. Brown · pm (r)
3 · The Thorns Are Vicious · P. Youngman-Carter · ss
11 · New Suit · Liam O’Flaherty · ss The Household Magazine Sep 1943
18 · Over the Border · [Various] · ms (r)
21 · The Dark Tower · John Moore · ss (r)
35 · Joe’s Silver Wedding Day · Mary Gallati · ss
41 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch Sep 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path”
48 · Quest · [Various] · ms (r)
51 · Alexander · Christine Weston · ss (r)
56 · Stranger · H. H. Bashford · pm (r)
57 · The Lame Priest · S. Carleton · ss The Atlantic Monthly Dec 1901
70 · We, Too, Were Young · [Various] · ms (r)
73 · As the Wind Is · Martha Ostenso · ss (r)
82 · All the World’s a Stage— · Anon. · pz
83 · Arfon · Rhys Davies · nv
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #6, June 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Six Years Ago— · Robert L. Duffus · ms The New York Times Jun 1 1940
3 · The Beggars’ Stone · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 20 1941, as “The Stone”
9 · Dionysus and the Pard · Geoffrey Household · ss The Salvation of Pisco Gabar, Chatto 1938
14 · Spring Song · [Various] · ms (r)
17 · The Shovewood · David Bolster · ss (r)
21 · Bligh’s Open-Boat Voyage · Thomas Woodrooffe · ar
36 · Nineteenth-Century Painting · Esther Shephard · pm The New Yorker 1945
37 · One-Man Cat · Frank Batchelor · ss
41 · The Two Spinsters [Nicholas Goade] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · nv The Grand Magazine Jun 1926, as “The Spinsters”
50 · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · [Various] · ms (r)
53 · Under the Pepper Tree · Amor ben Amar; translated by E. Powys Mathers & M. de Villeneuve · ss (r)
63 · Portrait of a Boy · Edward Stevenson · ss (r)
74 · No Higher Than Your Hand · [Various] · ms (r)
77 · Escape · Rafael Maluenda Labarca; translated by Alis de Sola · ss (r)
82 · Strike up the Band · Anon. · pz
83 · Collector’s Piece · A. C. Malcolm · ss
88 · I Took My Love · Robert Crawford · pm (r)
89 · The Breaking of the Bowl · Mildred North Slater · nv (r)
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #7, July 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · Boating · John Phillips · pm (r)
3 · Rafferty Ran · Richard Coleman · ss
9 · Gents Only · Rhys Davies · ss The Trip to London, Howell Soskin 1945
18 · Venust · [Various] · ms (r)
21 · An Ideal Craftsman · Walter de la Mare · ss On the Edge, Faber 1930
36 · The Woman’s Angle · Dorothy E. Reid · pm (r)
37 · The Naked Truth · Norman Edwards · ss (r)
43 · Cut to the Heart · Ernst Weiss; translated by E. B. Ashton · ss (r)
52 · ...And Faithfully · Bryen Gentry · pm (r)
53 · The Romantic Invention of the H-W-B · Charles Grosett · vi (r)
56 · King Willow · [Various] · ms (r)
59 · The Shadowy Third · Ellen Glasgow · nv Scribner’s Magazine Dec 1916
76 · Beast of the Sea · Hildegarde Dolson · ss (r)
81 · Personal Remarks · Anon. · pz
82 · Landscape with Music · [Various] · ms (r)
85 · Jack-All-Alone · Morley Roberts · ss The London Magazine Jun 1904
94 · Where e’er She Walked · John Clare · pm (r)
95 · Fish Are Such Liars · Roland Pertwee · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 15 1927
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

Argosy (UK) [v7 #8, August 1946] (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

2 · August · Edward Thomas · ex The Heart of England, Edward Thomas, J.M. Dent 1906
3 · Red Gentleman of Staffordshire · Gerald Kersh · ss The First Eighteen: Stories by Writers in Uniform, ed. Robert Westerby & P. J. Bruce, Nicholson & Watson 1943
9 · The Mermaid of Zennor · Eileen Molony · ex (r)
14 · Daybreak · [Various] · ms (r)
17 · And Delilah · Neil Paterson · ss (r)
29 · A Mediaeval RomanceMedieval Romance · Mark Twain · ss Buffalo Express Jan 1 1870, as “An Awful Terrible Medieval Romance”
35 · Suet Pudding · T. F. Powys · ss Full Score, ed. T. I. Fytton Armstrong, Rich & Cowan 1933
40 · A Question of Values · [Various] · ms (r)
43 · Dream of the Rev. Aubrey Lomas · Neil Bell · ss
47 · To Blow Away · Dorothy Cottrell · ss
55 · And It Passed by the Sea-Shore · Igor Severyanin; translated by Babette Deutsch & Avrahm Yarmolinsky · pm (r)
56 · Can You Answer These Questions? · Anon. · pz
57 · The Pit · Gwyn Jones · nv Penguin Parade #9 1942
76 · Mysterious Time · [Various] · ms (r)
79 · Father Gaucher’s Elixir · Alphonse Daudet; translated by George Burnham Ives · ss (r); translated from the French.
87 · The Owl That Kept Winking · Theodore Pratt · ss Esquire Jun 1944
94 · Bitter Sweet
94 · “As a hot traveller” · Edward Shanks · pm (r)
94 · “I know what my heart is like” · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm (r)
95 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss The Sunday News 1934
112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz

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