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Argosy (UK) [v 5 # 7, August 1944] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Will’s Capstan Cigarettes.


Argosy (UK) [v 5 # 8, September 1944] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 5 # 9, October 1944] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 5 #10, November 1944] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Burlington Cigars.
  • 2 · Autumn Evening · Frances Cornford · pm (r)
  • 3 · Night Operation · Stuart Cloete · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 24 ’44
  • 15 · A Russian Idyll · Frederic Prokosch · ss (r)
  • 22 · Home Comforts · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 25 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911
  • 30 · Fable of Parents Who Tampered with Offspring · George Ade · vi, 1899
  • 31 · Lead, Kindly Light · Michael Foster · ss (r)
  • 44 · Gentleman · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 47 · Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly, 1941
  • 55 · The Presbyterian Choir Singers, and the lady called Miss or Mrs. Balaifal · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Aug ’39
  • 63 · Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon! · John Collier · ss New Yorker Jan 1 ’38
  • 67 · Amen Chorus · H. A. Manhood · vi (r)
  • 70 · Fly Hence, Shadows · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 73 · The Last Fight of the Revenge · Sir Walter Raleigh · ar (r)
  • 79 · The King of the Cats · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb ’29
  • 92 · The Great Art · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 95 · Umquhile · L. Rudston · ss (r)
  • 112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz


Argosy (UK) [v 5 #11, December 1944] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 1 (New Series), January 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") With this issue the numbering has changed such that #1 is January. Inside front cover is half Pelman Institute and half Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 2, February 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.
  • 2 · The Rainbow · Edward Shanks · pm (r)
  • 3 · Ronnie Forbes Walks Upon the Waters · John Lastingham · ss (r)
  • 17 · The Accuser · L. A. G. Strong · ss (r)
  • 28 · Sports · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 31 · The Second Bandit’s Tale · Karel Capek · ss (r)
  • 39 · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’41
  • 50 · Crabbed Age and Youth · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 53 · Chinese Chrysanthemum · Romer Wilson · ss (r)
  • 57 · Confessional · Myrtle Johnston · ss The Cornhill Magazine Jan ’33
  • 67 · Between Midnight and Morning · Owen Seaman · pm Punch
  • 68 · February · Misc. · ms (r)
  • 71 · Yea and Nay · Neil Bell · ss (r)
  • 77 · Snow Scene · M. Edwin · ss (r)
  • 83 · Tom O’ the Roads · Lord Dunsany · ss (r)
  • 87 · Mrs. Barrow’s Usefulness · James Thurber · ss (r)
  • 95 · The Brute · Joseph Conrad · ss The Daily Chronicle Dec 5 ’06
  • 112 · Argosy Crossword · Anon. · pz


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 3, March 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 4, April 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") With effect from this issue the title throughout is just “Argosy”, and the caption at the bottom of the Table of Contents has been dropped. This issue contains an announcement that the “short stories submitted for the 1944 [Argosy Prize] competition have been of a very disappointing quality compared with those of the previous year” - so no prize was awarded and the money went to the Royal Literary Fund. Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 5, May 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 6, June 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 7 (new series), July 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute still shares the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 8, August 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") The half-page advert for Burlington Cigars on the inside front cover has been replaced by one for Capstan, with the Pelman Institute still occupying the other half.


Argosy (UK) [v 6 # 9, September 1945] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 112pp, 4.7" x 7.6") Pelman Institute is again sharing the inside front cover with Burlington Cigars. 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.”


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