NOVAE TERRAE (original) (raw)

NOVAE TERRAE

From this page the complete run of NOVAE TERRAE, the UK's first fanzine, is now available to everyone for the first time ever. Getting these issues online was a group effort and apart from myself the team responsible for OCRing/copytyping each issue were: Joe Patrizio (6, 10, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28), Jim Linwood (7, 13, 14, 19, 20, 29), Keith Freeman (8, 11, 26), Doug Bell (12, 23), and Mark Plummer (15). I'd also like to acknowledge the contributions of John Davey, Andy Sawyer, and particularly Alistair Durie, who supplied scans/xeroxes of issues I was missing. My thanks to one and all.

What with bleed-through from the inside page and often uneven duplication quality, it was necessary to do a restoration job on most covers that feature more than simple type. All those drawn by Harry Turner (#21-25, #27-29, and NEW WORLDS #1-4) were actually reworked/restored by Harry himself some years ago and copies of these were supplied by his son Philip who maintains a website devoted to Harry's life and works. Philip also supplied traces done by Harry of the Frank Dobby covers, and these have been used here. All other restoration work was done by me. I only have photocopies of issues 2,3 & 6, and the covers of these have so much 'dirt' that the simplest thing to do was to trace them and then scan the traces. The remaining covers were processed in Paint Shop Pro, with major 'dirt' being painted out.

While the page count varied, issues were all half-foolscap format - ie. 6�" x 8" (165mm x 203mm). Most issues were stapled together but several were stitched, presumably using a sewing machine.

....Rob Hansen.

NOVAE TERRAE: THE LAST YEAR - A. Vincent Clarke

March 1936Issue 1 April 1936Issue 2 May 1936Issue 3 (and Supplement)
June 1936Issue 4 July 1936Issue 5 August 1936Issue 6
October 1936Issue 7 November 1936Issue 8 December 1936Issue 9 (and Supplement)
February 1937Issue 10 (and Pamphlet) April 1937Issue 11 May 1937Issue 12
June 1937Issue 13 - (Vol.2 No.1) June 1937Issue 14 - (Vol.2 No.2) July 1937Issue 15 - (Vol.2 No.3)
August 1937Issue 16 - (Vol.2 No.4) October 1937Issue 17 - (Vol.2 No.5) November 1937Issue 18 - (Vol.2 No.6)
December 1937Issue 19 - (Vol.2 No.7) January 1938Issue 20 - (Vol.2 No.8) March 1938Issue 21 - (Vol.2 No.9)
April 1938Issue 22 - (Vol.2 No.10) May 1938Issue 23 - (Vol.2 No.11) June 1938Issue 24 - (Vol.2 No.12)
August 1938Issue 25 - (Vol.3 No.1) September 1938Issue 26 - (Vol.3 No.2) November 1938Issue 27 - (Vol.3 No.3 ) & Supp. #1
December 1938Issue 28 - (Vol.3 No.4) & Supp. #2 January 1939Issue 29 - (Vol.3 No.5) & Supp. #3