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New Worlds (fanzine)

Total Issues: 4

Amateur magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1939 – Aug-1939: Miller/Contento
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New Worlds

Total Issues: 222

Original magazine sequence ended with #201, Mar-1971. A Canadian edition was distributed by Modern Distributors of Toronto, and a New Zealand one by Messrs. P.B. Fisher.

#202 to #211 were original anthologies, initially called NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY: there were US editions of #1 through 4, and the British New Worlds Quarterly #6 & 7 were printed in the US as New Worlds #5 & 6.

#212 to #216 were a short-lived revival of as a semi-prozine, and the issues after that were trade paperbacks from various publishers.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1946 – #201, 1971: Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  #202, 1971 – #211, 1976, as New Worlds (Quarterly): Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  #212, 1978 – #216, 1979, as New Worlds: Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  #217, 1991 – #222, 1997, as New Worlds: Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines

Publishers

  Summer 1946 – Fall 1947: Pendulum Publications
  Winter 1949 – Apr-1964: Nova Publications
  May/Jun-1964 – Jan-1967: Roberts & Vinter
  #171, 1967 – #201, 1971: various imprints under proprietor Michael Moorcock
  #171, 1967 – #172, 1967: Gold Star Publications
  Jul-1967 – Nov-1967: Magnelist Publications
  Dec-1967/Jan-1968 – Mar-1969: Stonehart Publications
  Apr-1969 – #201, 1971: New Worlds Publishing
  Jun-1971 – Spring 1975: Sphere Books
  Winter 1975 – Spring 1976: Corgi Books
  Spring 1978 – Sep-1979: Coma Publications
  Sep-1991 – Nov-1994: Gollancz
  Winter 1996: Jayde Design
  Aug-1997: White Wolf

Editors

  Summer 1946 – Apr-1964: John Carnell
  May/Jun-1964 – Sep-1979: Michael Moorcock [with various assistants]
  Sep-1991 – 1997: David S. Garnett

Formats

  Summer 1946 – Fall 1947: small pulp
  Winter 1949 – Apr-1964: large digest
  May/Jun-1964 – Mar-1967: pocketbook
  Jul-1967 – Mar-1971: semi-slick
  Jun-1971 – Spring 1976: pocketbook
  Spring 1978 – Sep-1979: A4
  Sep-1991 – 1997: pocketbook

Frequency

  Summer 1946 – Winter 1951: quarterly but irregular
  Jan-1952 – Jun-1953: bi-monthly
  Apr-1954 – Apr-1964: monthly
  May/Jun-1964 – Nov/Dec-1964: bi-monthly
  Jan-1965 – Apr-1970: monthly [with gaps]
  1970 – 1997: irregular
   
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New Worlds Science Fiction (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of New Worlds Science Fiction. Probably started in early 1954 and continued through 1956, ended due to a strike, and started back again with issue 99, and then continued to 142. As far as is known the contents were identical to the UK issues but issues were dated a month or two later.

Issues & Index Sources

  1954? – 1956?
  Nov-1960 – Apr-1964

Publishers

  1954? – 1956?: Modern Distributors of Toronto
  Nov-1960 – Apr-1964: Gordon & Gotch - Canada, Ltd

New Worlds Science Fiction (New Zealand)

New Zealand reprint edition of New Worlds Science Fiction. Probably started in early 1954 and continued through 1964. As far as is known the contents and cover dates were identical to the UK issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  1954? – Apr-1964
Publishers:   1954? – Apr-1964: P.B. Fisher

New Worlds Science Fiction (US)

Total Issues: 5

American reprint edition of New Worlds Science Fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1960 – Jul-1960: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Great American Publications, Inc., Concord, NH
 
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New World Writing

Total Issues: 25?

Published Saul Bellow, Ionesco, Pynchon, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller ("Catch-18").

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1952 – 1964
Publishers:   NAL Mentor to 1959, then Lippincott
Editors:   Vance Bourjaily
Formats:   pocketbook
Frequency:   twice yearly

The New Writer

 see under Acclaim

New Writers

Total Issues: 12

Really an anthology series, but treated by some commentators as a "Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources:  1961 – 1976: Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines (1966-1967 only)
Publishers:   John Calder, London
Formats:   hardcover book format
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   BritLit4

New Writing

Total Issues: 19

Literary journal of reviews, analysis and fiction. Authors include E.M. Forster, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen. Merged with Daylight in Summer 1942. Superseded by Orpheus.

Issues & Index Sources

  Spring 1936 – Spring 1938: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Autumn 1938 – Christmas 1939: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Spring 1940 – Autumn 1941, as Folios of New Writing: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Summer 1942 – 1946, as New Writing and Daylight: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers

  Bodley Head (#1,2), Lawrence & Wishart (#3-#5); then Hogarth Press; last issue privately published

Editors

  John Lehmann

Formats

  digest

Frequency

  quarterly, but increasingly irregular

Sources

  BritLit4

New York

A local-interest magazine which "rose from the ashes" of the dying New York Herald Tribune newspaper in 1968 - formerly it was that paper's Sunday magazine supplement.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1968 – ?

Publishers

  1968 – 1977: Clay Felker, New York
  1977 – ?: Rupert Murdoch

Formats

  big slick

Frequency

  weekly

The New York Arm Chair

 see under The Arm Chair

New York Boys' Weekly

Total Issues: 70

Story paper; authors include Howard De Vere, "A Trip to the Centre of the Earth" (1878); There was a companion New York Boys Monthly for just 4 issues, Sep-1877 - Dec-1877.

Issues & Index Sources

  17-Mar-1877 – 13-Jul-1878: Bibliographic Listing: Our Boys and New York Boys Weekly

#merges with Boys of New York

Publishers

  Tousey & Small

Formats

  large tabloid

Prices

  5c

Pagecounts

  8pp

Frequency

  weekly

New York Citizen

Called "the handsomest and best family and story weekly published" in 1873.

Issues & Index Sources

  13-Aug-1864 – 3-Jul-1869
  10-Jul-1869 – 27-Apr-1872, as New York Citizen and Round Table

Publishers

  J.S. Berger (and others)

Editors

  R.B. Roosevelt

Formats

  story paper

Frequency

  weekly

New York Detective Library

Total Issues: 803

Dime novel series containing primarily detective and mystery stories. Some issues were just titled Detective Library. The last two issues were unnumbered.

Issues & Index Sources:  7-Jun-1883 – 1-Apr-1898
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   32pp

The New Yorker

Total Issues: 3750 (to Feb-1999)

A very successful combination of humour magazine (the approximate American equivalent of Punch), local listings paper, and literary journal with an emphasis on fiction. It is probably the most sophisticated, urbane, clique-fiction magazine of them all, although under Conde Nast's (S. I. Newhouse's) ownership and Tina Brown's editorship it has lost money. Authors include E. B. White, James Thurber, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, John Collier, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, J. D. Salinger, Robert M. Coates, Sally Benson, John Cheever, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, William Trevor, Mavis Gallant, Ursula Le Guin, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King. no single index, but almost as good is The Complete Book of Covers from the New Yorker 1925-1989 (Knopf, 1989). See also About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagoda (Scribner, 2000).

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Feb-1925 – present: Short Story Index (Missing: all before 1974 at least)

Publishers

  ?: Raoul Fleischmann
  1985 – ?: Conde Nast

Website

  www.newyorker.com

Editors

  1925 – 1951: Harold Wallace Ross
  1951 – 1987: William Shawn
  1987 – 1992: Robert Gottlieb
  1992 – 1998: Tina Brown
  present: Bill Buford [fiction editor]

Formats

  small slick

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)
 

New York Family Story Paper

 see under Family Story Paper

New York Five Cent Library

Total Issues: 157+48+762=967

Dime novel series containing primarily frontier and western stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  12-Aug-1892 – ?: Fictionmags Website (first 56 issues)
  9-Nov-1895 – 3-Oct-1896, as Diamond Dick Library
  17-Oct-1896 – 20-May-1911, as Diamond Dick, Jr.

Publishers

  Street & Smith

Prices

  5c

Frequency

  weekly

New York Journal

Story-paper; purchased by Frank Leslie and merged with Frank Leslie's Ladies Gazette.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – 1848

The New York Ledger

The most successful story paper of its day. Published Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs Southworth, Charles Dickens, Sylvanus Cobb. Circulation reached 400,000 in 1860.

Issues & Index Sources

  20-Jan-1847 – 1855, as The Merchant's Ledger
  1855 – 1898, as The New York Ledger
  1898 – 7-Dec-1903, as The Ledger Monthly

Publishers

  1847 – 1851: D. Anson Pratt
  1851 – 1886: Robert Bonner
  1887 – 1901: Robert Bonner's sons
  1901 – 1903: Ledger Company

Editors

  1847 – 1851: D. Anson Pratt
  1851 – 1887: Robert Bonner
  1887 – 1894: Mayo Heseltine
  1894 – 1901: Robert Bonner, Jr.

Formats

  large tabloid story-paper (22" x 14")

Pagecounts

  4pp at outset, then 8pp

Frequency

  1846 – 1847: daily
  1847 – 1898: weekly
  1898 – 1903: monthly

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