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The Liberty Boys of '76

Country: US
Total Issues: 1273

Historical adventures of young Dick Slater, Bob Estabrook, and their comrades during the American Revolution.

Issues & Index Sources:  4-Jan-1901 – May-1925: Dime Novel Bibliography (FicMags sample issues only)
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Publishers:   Frank Tousey; Harry E. Wolff
Formats:   quarto tabloid
Prices:   5c to 8c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography
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Libido

Country: US
Total Issues: 47

"A journal about sex that's geared to turn on your mind and your body, containing some of the best photography as well as best-written erotica published in the U.S. It also includes essays, news, poetry and anything else that has to do with sex sensibility."

Became a webzine after Fall 2000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1988 – Fall 2000: FictionMags Index (partial issues only)
Website:   www.libidomag.com
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Library of Adventure and Romance

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  14-Apr-1892 – 16-Jun-1892: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issues only)
Publishers:   International Book Company, 142-144 Worth St., New York, NY
Formats:   12 x 8½"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of American Authors

Country: US
Total Issues: 78

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1888 – 1-Apr-1899: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   George Munro, 17 to 27 Vandewater Street, New York
Formats:   7 3/8 x 5 1/16"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   225 to 250
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Choice Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 80

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1890 – Mar-1894?: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)
Publishers:   Laird & Lee, 263 Wabash Ave., Chicago
Formats:   7¼ x 5 1/8"
Pagecounts:   150-400
Frequency:   Monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Choice Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 57

Issues & Index Sources:  1875 – 1877: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   D. Appleton & Co., 549-551 Broadway, New York
Prices:   50c to $1.25
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Congress Magazine

Country: US

Library of Congress Magazine is published bimonthly to tell the Library's stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world's largest library. It has occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep/Oct-2012 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.loc.gov/lcm/
Publishers:   Library of Congress

The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller

Country: US
Total Issues: 14

Subtitled "Consisting of Original Tales, Essays and Sketches of Character".

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1836 – May-1837: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, London
Editors:   Charles Whitehead
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

Library of Liberal Classics

Country: US
Total Issues: 57

Issues & Index Sources:  1895 – 1899
Publishers:   Peter Eckler
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Popular Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 42

Issues & Index Sources:  1904 – 1905: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   American News Company
Formats:   7 x 4¾; 7¼ x 5 (No. 39); 7 5/8 x 5¼ (No. 40)
Prices:   25c; 15c (No. 40)
Pagecounts:   250 to 350
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Realistic Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 33?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)
Publishers:   Laird & Lee
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Library of Select Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 611

Issues & Index Sources:  1843 – 1885
Publishers:   Harper
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Lichgate

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Small press "magazine of disquieting tales".

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1995: Science Fiction Index
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Life (UK)

Country: UK

The Christmas number for 1881 was advertised as "containing a series of tales, stories, poems and sketches by eminent authors, including Coals of Fire, by D. Christie Murray".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1881

Life (US)

Country: US

Initially a humorous magazine noted for its art by Gibson; authors included John Kendrick Bangs, Brander Matthews, Robert Benchley. The title was bought by Henry Luce in 1936 and turned into a very different type of magazine. Although almost wholly non-fiction (like other Luce publications, such as the news-weekly, Time), it published occasional pieces of fiction, including "The Silence of the Sea" by Vercors (1943), "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (1952), "The Bridges of Toko-ri" by James Michener (1953) and "The Kilimanjaro Machine" by Ray Bradbury (22-Jan-1965).

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Jan-1883 – Oct-1936
  23-Nov-1936 – 1972: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
  1978 – 2000

Publishers

  1883 – 1936: John Ames Mitchell; Charles Dana Gibson
  1936 – 1972: Time, Inc. (Henry Luce)

Editors

  1883 – 1892: Edward Sanford Martin
  1892 – ?: Thomas L. Masson
  1924 – 1928: Robert E. Sherwood

Formats

  big slick

Frequency

  1883 – 1931: weekly
  1931 – 1936: monthly
  1936 – 1972: weekly

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Life and Adventure Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  1890 – 1893
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.



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