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American Tales [1863]

Country: US
Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Nov-1863 – 30-Apr-1867: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Sinclair Tousey, No. 121 Nassau Street, New York
Formats:   6" x 9"
Prices:   10c (nos. 1-4), 15c (nos. 5-44)
Pagecounts:   62pp (no. 1), 40-48pp (nos. 2-44)
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

American Tales [1868]

Country: US
Total Issues: 48

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Nov-1868 – 13-Apr-1872: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Beadle and Company, 98 William St., New York
Formats:   5" x 8"
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The American Thresherman

Country: US

"The Power Farmer's Magazine". Mainly articles about farming, but also the occasional fiction including a reprint serial by William MacHarg & Edwin Balmer in the 1940s.

Full title is American Thresherman and Farm Equipment in late 1931.

Issues & Index Sources: 1898 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Little, Brown
Frequency: monthly

The American Union

Country: US

A rather more literary story-paper. Authors included Sylvanus Cobb, J.H. Robinson, Murray.

Issues & Index Sources

4-Nov-1848 – 1877?

Publishers

  1848 – 1854: Robert B. Fitts, Boston, Mass.
  1854 – 1860: William E. Graves & Samuel E. Weston, Boston, Mass.
  1861 – 1876: Thomes & Talbot, Boston, Mass.
  1861 – 1863: James R. Elliott & William Henry Thomes
  1863 – 1870: James R. Elliott, William Henry Thomes & Newton Talbot, Boston, Mass.
  1870 – 1877?: William Henry Thomes & Newton Talbot, Boston, Mass.

Editors

  1848 – 1852: George Pickering Burnham
  1852 – 1855: William E. Graves
  1855 – 1861: Samuel E. Weston
  1861 – 1870: James R. Elliott
  1861: William Henry Thomes
  1863 – ?: Newton Talbot

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

The American Voice

Country: US
Total Issues: 50

Published daring new writers and the more radical work of established writers, such as Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, and Jorge Luis Borges. Circulation about 1500.

Issues & Index Sources: 1985 – 1999

Publishers:   Kentucky Foundation for Women, 332 West Broadway, Suite 1215, Louisville, KY 40202 (in 2000)
Editors:   Frederick Smock (in 1998 - 1999)
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   130pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly; then quarterly
Mentioned in:   Directory of Literary Magazines 1999, O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2002)

American Way

Country: US

An airline in-flight magazine, with one story per issue. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1968 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Website:   magazines.aa.com
Publishers:   American Airlines, NY
Editors:   currently Chuck Thompson
Formats:   big slick
Frequency:   fortnightly

The American Weekly

Country: US

The American Weekly was published by the Hearst Corporation for inclusion as a supplement to their Sunday newspapers. Sort of the Parade Magazine of its day, it was also the precursor of the National Enquirer and could have given the Police Gazette a run for its money.

It was billed as having a circulation of over 50,000,000 readers and was filled with scantily clad showgirls and tales of murder and suspense including work by H. Bedford-Jones, Max Brand, James F. Dwyer, A. Merritt. It was large - about 21"x15" - and printed on fragile newsprint, so few copies have survived the ensuing decades.

Initially entitled The American Magazine; title changed to Pictorial Living in 1963 (possibly as the result of a merger) and folded in 1966.