The Real Hornblower First Editions

Argosy Cover 26 Feb 1938

The first half of the twentieth century saw a huge number of weekly and monthly story magazines; “pulps” as they became known. They were a major part of popular culture until television killed them off in the sixties. Westerns, science fiction, romances, mysteries and adventure stories all appeared and authors who could spin a captivating yarn, keeping the readers buying issue after issue, were a valuable commodity. C.S. Forester was one of these authors, particularly with the success of The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters) after which Hornblower became saleable in serial form. Here’s the cover of the first of six instalments of Ship of the Line appearing less than a year after Hornblower’s debut in the US. Forester often had top billing on the front cover, especially for new stories.

Forester’s success allowed Hornblower to eventualy graduate to the more up-market “slick” publications. The Saturday Evening Post and John Bull (later relaunched as Today, the New John Bull, replete with girlie magazine covers and racy features) are fascinating reminders of the world of more than half a century ago. WWII and Cold War commentary, ads for tobacco, medicines, cars and the new products of the day are wonderful reminders of the social and family values of the times. I was often diverted from Hornblower and captivated by the surrounding material. In The Hornblower Companion (chapter 29) Forester himself notes how ground-breaking was the adultery of Commodore Hornblower appearing in the Post in 1945. When you look through the whole of those issues you gain a better understanding of why this was so.

So how did I come to discover the Hornblower pulps? Hornblower and the Crisis is published with Hornblower and the Widow McCool and The Last Encounter, and this revealed to me the existence of Hornblower short stories. Quickly I was led to Hornblower One More Time which collects the other three and which is available online at http://www.scaryfangirl.com/Once%20Again5thNetVer.pdf. The stories are attributed to their original pulps with a note that revealed that slightly different versions had been published in the UK. Now I was hooked and searched the Internet for details of Forester’s works in pulps. Fortunately most of the work had been done for me on William G. Contento’s web site at http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm. I could see not only where the five Hornblower short stories had been published but I also found details of the serialisations of the eleven novels.

This turned out to be just about the limit of my discoveries online. A few scans can be discovered here and there but I realised that buying my own copies of these vintage pulps was going to be the best way to see that material. This was something of a daunting task with 132 issues to find; 54 from the UK and 78 from the US. Fortunately there’s a thriving market for vintage pulps, particularly in the US. The same vendors I had used to acquire old editions of the Hornblower books also carried many old magazine issues. The main sources are probably no surprise to book lovers on the Internet: AbeBooks.com, Biblio.com and eBay. There’s substantial but not complete overlap between the first two of these as many book sellers use both services.

One of the biggest frustrations was the existence of separate Argosy magazines in the US and the UK, both of them publishing Forester stories. Then there’s the varying format of dates in use so that I was forced to search by year only and manually check through the results. One bonus is that all three sites have a facility to automatically send email when new items match a search. It’s necessary to be enterprising with eBay as it tries hard to hide listings where the seller doesn’t offer to ship to your country. Actually most sellers will ship to other countries when asked so I ended up setting up extra eBay accounts in the US and the UK (I live in Australia) just to send me notice of local listings. The actual purchasing was done with my local eBay account once I’d confirmed shipping was possible.

At the outset, with a large number of items sought, it pays to search for big sellers who have multiple items available to save on postage. Searching for issues of interest quickly reveals the vendors with large catalogues of magazines and I was able to tick off a dozen or more items in a single purchase more than once. There are a few vendors with their own web sites. I found http://www.tilleysvintagemagazines.com, http://www.vinmagarchive.com and www.advertisingarchives.co.uk to be good sources for John Bull and http://www.abookman.com/ has quite a comprehensive stock of Saturday Evening Post.

Some book chapters are missing from the serialisations. It’s possible that they were published in issues that I’m not aware of and I’d be very interested to hear of these. I don’t know of any serialisation in the UK of the first five novels, up to Lord Hornblower, nor of Hornblower and the Crisis. If these novels were serialised perhaps it was in newspapers or in some other place that’s not well indexed on the Internet. The only exception is that an excerpt from The Happy Return was published in the May 1949 Argosy (UK) as The Lydia and the Natividad, in the middle of their serialisation of Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Both the Argosy (UK) and The Saturday Evening Post in the US omitted a chapter, The Man Who Saw God, from that book. Later, The Guns of Carabobo was omitted from Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies in the US though it was printed in John Bull in the UK. Finally, Hornblower and the Hotspur appeared only in very abbreviated form in US magazines in a single issue of Argosy (US).

I find some interest in the way the final chapters of Lieutenant Hornblower are given a separate title in serialisation: High Stakes Mr Hornblower in the US and Hornblower the Gambler in the UK. The long gap in the action and some problems with the chronology are further hints that these chapters were written substantially later. Similarly, in the UK the first part of Hornblower and the Atropos is published under the separate title Hornblower and the Nelson Touch.

None of the issues seem to be especially expensive on account of their Forester content but some are priced at a premium for other reasons. The last instalment of Ship of the Line in Argosy (US) shares its pages with the first instalment of a new Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel The Synthetic Men of Mars. So too The Saturday Evening Post’s front page was famously often illustrated by Norman Rockwell so Hornblower stories inside some sought-after covers come at a higher cost.

Still, patience and careful searching has paid off and my US collection is now complete. The UK seems to be harder with a much smaller range of old magazines for sale. Unsurprisingly the oldest issues are the most problematic with the 1940s Argosy (UK) scarce and John Bull from the early 1950s not much better. I still lack four issues in all.

What if patience runs out? To work around the problem of the missing issues I resorted to inter-library document delivery services to fill in the final gaps in my collection. This is not a money-saving option! The cost of obtaining a dozen or so pages of Hornblower content is often more than that of buying a whole vintage issue. The services are more attuned to scientific journals than to popular periodicals and sometimes had difficulty dealing with stories heavily interspersed with advertising and often continued on the back pages. But with some effort I now have the complete text of Hornblower as originally serialised. Below is a table listing all the Hornblower first editions that I’m aware of both in book and serialised form published in the UK and the US.

First Publication of Hornblower
Title	Pub. Date	Publisher/Magazine	Vol	No	Page Nos
The Happy Return	4 Feb 1937	Michael Joseph			287
Beat to Quarters	6 Apr 1937	Little Brown			324
Beat to Quarters [1 of 6]	17 Sep 1938	Argosy (US)	285	5	4–25
Beat to Quarters [2 of 6]	24 Sep 1938	Argosy (US)	285	6	43–62
Beat to Quarters [3 of 6]	1 Oct 1938	Argosy (US)	286	1	77–96
Beat to Quarters [4 of 6]	8 Oct 1938	Argosy (US)	286	2	76–92
Beat to Quarters [5 of 6]	15 Oct 1938	Argosy (US)	286	3	94–117
Beat to Quarters [6 of 6]	22 Oct 1938	Argosy (US)	286	4	96–117
The Lydia and the Natividad	May 1949	Argosy (UK)	10	5	75–93
Ship of the Line [1 of 6]	26 Feb 1938	Argosy (US)	279	6	6–34
Ship of the Line [2 of 6]	5 Mar 1938	Argosy (US)	280	1	50–71
Ship of the Line [3 of 6]	12 Mar 1938	Argosy (US)	280	2	21–46
Ship of the Line [4 of 6]	19 Mar 1938	Argosy (US)	280	3	72–94
Ship of the Line [5 of 6]	26 Mar 1938	Argosy (US)	280	4	108–127
Ship of the Line [6 of 6]	2 Apr 1938	Argosy (US)	280	5	100–126
Ship of the Line	18 Mar 1938	Little Brown			323
A Ship of the Line	4 Apr 1938	Michael Joseph			304
Flying Colours with A Ship of the Line	31 Oct 1938	Michael Joseph			588
Flying Colours	1 Nov 1938	Michael Joseph			284
Flying Colours [1 of 6]	3 Dec 1938	Argosy (US)	286	4	28–49
Flying Colours [2 of 6]	10 Dec 1938	Argosy (US)	286	5	68–85
Flying Colours [3 of 6]	17 Dec 1938	Argosy (US)	286	6	60–78
Flying Colours [4 of 6]	24 Dec 1938	Argosy (US)	287	1	79–99
Flying Colours [5 of 6]	31 Dec 1938	Argosy (US)	287	2	71–92
Flying Colours [6 of 6]	7 Jan 1939	Argosy (US)	287	3	112–126
Flying Colours	3 Jan 1939	Little Brown			294
Hornblower and His Majesty	23 Mar 1940	Collier’s	105	12	9–10, 42–43
Hornblower and His Majesty	Mar 1941	Argosy (UK)	2	14	3–16
Hornblower and His Majesty	4 Jul 1976	In “Hornblower One More Time”			25–40
The Hand of Destiny	23 Nov 1940	Collier’s	106	21	23–24, 58–60
Hornblower and the Hand of Destiny	Apr 1941	Argosy (UK)	2	15	37–48
The Hand of Destiny	4 Jul 1976	In “Hornblower One More Time”			1–12
The Bad Samaritan	18 Jan 1941	Argosy (US)	305	1	28–30, 50
Hornblower’s Charitable Offering	May 1941	Argosy (UK)	2	16	29–38
Hornblower’s Charitable Offering	4 Jul 1976	In “Hornblower One More Time”			13–24
The Commodore	12 Mar 1945	Michael Joseph			271
Commodore Hornblower [1 of 8]	24 Mar 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	39	9–11, 73–80
Commodore Hornblower [2 of 8]	31 Mar 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	40	28–29, 35–42
Commodore Hornblower [3 of 8]	7 Apr 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	41	28–29, 48–62
Commodore Hornblower [4 of 8]	14 Apr 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	42	32, 69–86
Commodore Hornblower [5 of 8]	21 Apr 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	43	32, 94–102
Commodore Hornblower [6 of 8]	28 Apr 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	44	32, 94–104
Commodore Hornblower [7 of 8]	5 May 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	45	32, 73–87
Commodore Hornblower [8 of 8]	12 May 1945	The Saturday Evening Post	217	46	32, 98–108
Commodore Hornblower	21 May 1945	Little Brown, Boston			384
Lord Hornblower [1 of 8]	18 May 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	46	9–11, 104–116
Lord Hornblower [2 of 8]	25 May 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	47	36–37, 89–97
Lord Hornblower [3 of 8]	1 Jun 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	48	34, 122–132
Lord Hornblower [4 of 8]	8 Jun 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	49	34, 138–148
Lord Hornblower [5 of 8]	15 Jun 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	50	34, 126–136
Lord Hornblower [6 of 8]	22 Jun 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	51	34, 100–111
Lord Hornblower [7 of 8]	29 Jun 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	52	32, 73–83
Lord Hornblower [8 of 8]	6 Jul 1946	The Saturday Evening Post	218	53	32, 95–104
Lord Hornblower	11 Jun 1946	Michael Joseph			224
Lord Hornblower	24 Sep 1946	Little Brown			318
Hornblower’s Duel [The Even Chance]	6 Mar 1948	The Saturday Evening Post	220	36	18–19, 69–88
Hornblower and the Bursting Ship [The Cargo of Rice]	17 Apr 1948	The Saturday Evening Post	220	42	24–25, 96–104
Hornblower and the Penalty of Failure	29 May 1948	The Saturday Evening Post	220	48	18–19, 97–104
Hornblower and the Man Who Felt Queer	10 Jul 1948	The Saturday Evening Post	221	2	26–27, 102–107
Hornblower and the Trap [The Frogs and the Lobsters]	5 Mar 1949	The Saturday Evening Post	221	36	22–23, 47–64
Hornblower to the Attack! [The Spanish Galleys]	7 May 1949	The Saturday Evening Post	221	45	40–41, 59–70
Advance Mr. Hornblower [The Examination for Lieutenant]	2 Jul 1949	The Saturday Evening Post	222	1	24–25, 94–100
Hornblower and the Black Death [Noah’s Ark]	4 Mar 1950	The Saturday Evening Post	222	36	26–27, 73–76
The Capture of Hornblower [The Duchess and the Devil]	11 Mar 1950	The Saturday Evening Post	222	53	24–25, 48–70
Hornblower and the Even Chance	Aug 1948	Argosy (UK)	9	8	99–127
Hornblower and the Cargo of Rice	Sep 1948	Argosy (UK)	9	9	101–127
Hornblower and the French Privateer [The Penalty of Failure]	Oct 1948	Argosy (UK)	9	10	87–101
Hornblower Takes Command [The Man Who Felt Queer]	Nov 1948	Argosy (UK)	9	11	107–127
Hornblower, The Frogs and the Lobsters	Jun 1949	Argosy (UK)	10	6	111–143
Hornblower and the Spanish Galleys	Jul 1949	Argosy (UK)	10	7	115–143
Advance Mr. Hornblower [The Examination For Lieutenant]	Oct 1949	Argosy (UK)	10	10	63–76
Hornblower and Noah’s Ark	Apr 1950	Argosy (UK)	11	4	105–119
Hornblower, The Duchess and the Devil [1 of 2]	May 1950	Argosy (UK)	11	5	137–156
Hornblower, The Duchess and the Devil [2 of 2]	Jun 1950	Argosy (UK)	11	6	139–159
Mr Midshipman Hornblower	13 Mar 1950	Little Brown			310
Mr Midshipman Hornblower	22 May 1950	Michael Joseph			277
Hornblower’s Temptation	9 Dec 1950	The Saturday Evening Post	223	24	22–23, 171–176
Hornblower and the Big Decision	Apr 1951	Argosy (UK)	12	4	105–120
Hornblower and the Widow McCool	4 Jun 1967	In “Hornblower and the Crisis”			131–157
Hornblower and the Widow McCool	8 Nov 1967	In “Hornblower During the Crisis”			127–156
Hornblower of the Indies [1 of 8]	15 Sep 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	11	19–21, 178–186
Hornblower of the Indies [2 of 8]	22 Sep 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	12	40–41, 159–166
Hornblower of the Indies [3 of 8]	29 Sep 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	13	40–53
Hornblower of the Indies [4 of 8]	6 Oct 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	14	46, 90–100
Hornblower of the Indies [5 of 8]	13 Oct 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	15	50–72
Hornblower of the Indies [6 of 8]	20 Oct 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	16	51, 61–76
Hornblower of the Indies [7 of 8]	27 Oct 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	17	43, 92–100
Hornblower of the Indies [8 of 8]	3 Nov 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	18	47, 150–159
High Stakes Mr Hornblower	17 Nov 1951	The Saturday Evening Post	224	20	32–33, 90–112
Lieutenant Hornblower [1 of 8]	6 Oct 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2362	7–10, 24–30
Lieutenant Hornblower [2 of 8]	13 Oct 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2363	7–9, 24–32
Lieutenant Hornblower [3 of 8]	20 Oct 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2364	20–22, 28–35
Lieutenant Hornblower [4 of 8]	27 Oct 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2365	16, 30–37
Lieutenant Hornblower [5 of 8]	3 Nov 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2366	16, 27–34
Lieutenant Hornblower [6 of 8]	10 Nov 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2367	22–24, 34–37
Lieutenant Hornblower [7 of 8]	17 Nov 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2368	22–24, 37–40
Lieutenant Hornblower [8 of 8]	24 Nov 1951	John Bull Weekly	90	2369	14, 28–35
Hornblower the Gambler [1 of 2]	5 Jan 1952	John Bull Weekly	91	2375	7–9, 22–25
Hornblower the Gambler [2 of 2]	12 Jan 1952	John Bull Weekly	91	2376	14, 25–28
Lieutenant Hornblower	11 Feb 1952	Michael Joseph			304
Lieutenant Hornblower	27 Mar 1952	Little Brown			306
Young Captain Hornblower [1 of 8]	25 Jul 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	4	17–19, 53–58
Young Captain Hornblower [2 of 8]	1 Aug 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	5	34–35, 60–64
Young Captain Hornblower [3 of 8]	8 Aug 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	6	41, 102–107
Young Captain Hornblower [4 of 8]	15 Aug 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	7	41, 66–72
Young Captain Hornblower [5 of 8]	22 Aug 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	8	41, 77–84
Young Captain Hornblower [6 of 8]	29 Aug 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	9	41, 88–94
Young Captain Hornblower [7 of 8]	5 Sep 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	10	41, 74–80
Young Captain Hornblower [8 of 8]	12 Sep 1953	The Saturday Evening Post	226	11	49, 110–121
Hornblower and the Atropos	10 Sep 1953	Little Brown			325
Hornblower and the Nelson Touch	3 Oct 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2466	21–28
Hornblower of the Atropos [1 of 8]	10 Oct 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2467	7–10, 40–43
Hornblower of the Atropos [2 of 8]	17 Oct 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2468	24–28, 36–46
Hornblower of the Atropos [3 of 8]	24 Oct 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2469	23–25, 38–47
Hornblower of the Atropos [4 of 8]	31 Oct 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2470	24–26, 38–45
Hornblower of the Atropos [5 of 8]	7 Nov 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2471	18–20, 40–47
Hornblower of the Atropos [6 of 8]	14 Nov 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2472	29–33
Hornblower of the Atropos [7 of 8]	21 Nov 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2473	14–16, 36–39
Hornblower of the Atropos [8 of 8]	28 Nov 1953	John Bull Weekly	94	2474	18, 37–42
Hornblower and the Atropos	9 Nov 1953	Michael Joseph			302
Admiral Hornblower [1 of 3]	11 May 1957	The Saturday Evening Post	229	45	25–27, 89–95
Admiral Hornblower [2 of 3]	18 May 1957	The Saturday Evening Post	229	46	42–43, 52–60
Admiral Hornblower [3 of 3]	25 May 1957	The Saturday Evening Post	229	47	48–49, 66–72
Hornblower and the Star of the South [1 of 2]	19 Oct 1957	The Saturday Evening Post	230	16	28–29, 103–111
Hornblower and the Star of the South [2 of 2]	26 Oct 1957	The Saturday Evening Post	230	17	38–39, 74–82
Hornblower and the Pirate Plot [1 of 2]	22 Feb 1958	The Saturday Evening Post	230	34	22–23, 94–98
Hornblower and the Pirate Plot [2 of 2]	1 Mar 1958	The Saturday Evening Post	230	35	38–39, 52–57
Hornblower’s Hurricane [1 of 3]	12 Apr 1958	The Saturday Evening Post	230	41	22–23, 83–88
Hornblower’s Hurricane [2 of 3]	19 Apr 1958	The Saturday Evening Post	230	42	42–43, 83–88
Hornblower’s Hurricane [3 of 3]	26 Apr 1958	The Saturday Evening Post	230	43	49, 91–96
Hornblower and St Elizabeth of Hungary [1 of 3]	25 May 1957	John Bull Weekly	101	2656	7–9, 24–28
Hornblower and St Elizabeth of Hungary [2 of 3]	1 Jun 1957	John Bull Weekly	102	2657	16–17, 35–38
Hornblower and St Elizabeth of Hungary [3 of 3]	8 Jun 1957	John Bull Weekly	102	2658	20–22, 29–31
Hornblower and the Guns of Carabobo	28 Sep 1957	John Bull Weekly	102	2674	29–36
Hornblower and the Spanish Slaver [1 of 3]	25 Jan 1958	John Bull Weekly	103	2691	7–9, 33–34
Hornblower and the Spanish Slaver [2 of 3]	1 Feb 1958	John Bull Weekly	103	2692	12–13, 22–25
Hornblower and the Spanish Slaver [3 of 3]	8 Feb 1958	John Bull Weekly	103	2693	18–20, 27–29
Hornblower and the Pirates [1 of 3]	14 Jun 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2711	6–11
Hornblower and the Pirates [2 of 3]	21 Jun 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2712	23–27
Hornblower and the Pirates [3 of 3]	28 Jun 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2713	25–28
Hornblower’s Hurricane [1 of 3]	30 Aug 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2722	5–9
Hornblower’s Hurricane [2 of 3]	6 Sep 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2723	20–24
Hornblower’s Hurricane [3 of 3]	13 Sep 1958	John Bull Weekly	104	2724	31–34
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies	28 Aug 1958	Little Brown			329
Hornblower in the West Indies	29 Sep 1958	Michael Joseph			283
Hornblower and the Hotspur [1 of 7]	24 Feb 1962	Today	5	105	16–20
Hornblower and the Hotspur [2 of 7]	3 Mar 1962	Today	5	106	20–24
Hornblower and the Hotspur [3 of 7]	10 Mar 1962	Today	5	107	20–24
Hornblower and the Hotspur [4 of 7]	17 Mar 1962	Today	5	108	20–24
Hornblower and the Hotspur [5 of 7]	24 Mar 1962	Today	5	109	20–24
Hornblower and the Hotspur [6 of 7]	31 Mar 1962	Today	5	110	12–15
Hornblower and the Hotspur [7 of 7]	7 Apr 1962	Today	5	111	12–15
Hornblower and the Hotspur	Oct 1962	Argosy (US)	355	4	27–29, 99–114
Hornblower and the Hotspur	27 Jul 1962	Michael Joseph			287
Hornblower and the Hotspur	1 Aug 1962	Little Brown			344
The Hornblower Companion	4 Dec 1964	Michael Joseph			140
The Hornblower Companion	6 Dec 1964	Little Brown			149
The Last Encounter	4 Jun 1967	In “Hornblower and the Crisis”			159–174
The Last Encounter	Apr 1967	Argosy (US)	364	4	31–34, 94–95
The Last Encounter	8 Nov 1967	In “Hornblower During the Crisis”			157–174
Hornblower During the Crisis [1 of 2]	16 Jul 1966	The Saturday Evening Post	239	15	50–63
Hornblower During the Crisis [2 of 2]	30 Jul 1966	The Saturday Evening Post	239	16	40–57
Hornblower and the Crisis	4 Jun 1967	Michael Joseph, London			175
Hornblower During the Crisis	8 Nov 1967	Little Brown, Boston			174
Hornblower One More Time	4 Jul 1976	Non Profit Press			71

Notes on Dates of Publication

Almost all the novels have dates based on newspaper announcements so these should be correct to the day. Two or three from the 1960s are based on the dates of newspaper reviews only so these might be a few days later than official publication. For the magazines the dates given are as noted in each issue. For weeklies these are the date the issue was to be removed from the shelves, i.e., they were available some days earlier than stated. For monthlies I’ve given only the month noted in the issue but they will have been available for most of the preceding month. See the list of publishers below for details. The exact date for “The Hornblower Companion” is uncertain: I’ve given the dates of the earliest newspaper advertisements which indicate it was released for Christmas. “Hornblower One More Time” is dated by virtue of the fact that it was released for the two-hundredth anniversary of Hornblower’s birth.

Notes on the Arrangement of Titles

Each Hornblower text is shown appearing in up to four publications: US Book, US Magazine, UK Book and UK Magazine. All publications of the same text are grouped inside heavy borders which are sorted by date of first publication. Within the heavy borders any serialisations are grouped together and each publication is again sorted by date of first publication. Book titles and dates of publication are shown in bold.

Sources

• “Bibliographic Resources”, William G. Contento http://www.philsp.com/homeville/
• The New York Times, New York, issues of dates given
• The Guardian, Manchester, issues of dates given
• The Observer, London, issues of dates given
• Abe Books Listings
• eBay Listings

Publishers

• Argosy (UK), Amalgamated Press, London. Monthly: on sale from the 7th of the preceding month in 1941 and on the 10th in 1948–1951.
• Argosy (US), Popular Publications, New York. Weekly: on sale from the Tuesday (Wednesday in 1941) preceding the Saturday cover date. By the 1960s it was monthly: on sale from the 18th of the preceding month.
• Collier’s, Crowell-Collier Publishing, Springfield Ohio. Weekly: on sale during the week preceding the Saturday cover date.
• John Bull Weekly, Odhams Press, London. Weekly: on sale from the Wednesday preceding the Saturday cover date.
• Little Brown, Boston.
• Michael Joseph, London.
• Non-Profit Press, Tacoma, Washington.
• The Saturday Evening Post, Curtis Publishing, Philadelphia. Weekly: on sale during the week preceding the Saturday cover date. By the 1960s it was fortnightly.
• Today, Odhams Press, London. Weekly: on sale from the Tuesday preceding the Saturday cover date.