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Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 3, March 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front adverts are now four half-page adverts (National Savings Defence Bonds; Clarke’s Blood Mixture; Fluxite Soldering; and Eno’s Fruit Salt) and one full page (Alasil, an improved form of aspirin from Ovaltine). Rear cover is a full-page advert for The Fleet Street School of Authorship.

4 • March [from Mere England] • J. H. B. Peel • pm (r)
5 • The Flood • Conrad Richter • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 6 ’45
16 • Cherchez La Femme • Anon. • qz (r)
17 • Seven’s • T. F. Powys • ss The New Leader Oct 23 ’24
21 • Murderer • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss (r)
36 • And So to Bed • Misc. Material • ms (r)
39 • The Devil at Clonmacnoise • Mervyn Wall • ss (r)
53 • Glencannon and the Ailing Cockroach [_Colin Glencannon_] • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 16 ’46
67 • Ae Fond Kiss • Misc. Material • ms (r)
69 • Business Is Business • Norman Edwards • ss (r)
75 • The Bull That Won • Ben Hecht • ss (r)
94 • House with a View • Misc. Material • ms (r)
97 • Rivets • John Gloag • ss (r)
100 • Carnivorous Quadruped • Christopher Smart • pm (r)
101 • Defeat of the Countess • F. G. Loring • ss (r)
112 • Miraculous Moonshine • Misc. Material • ms (r)
115 • Son of the Vulture • Stuart Cloete • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 4, April 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front adverts are now two half-page adverts (National Savings and Fluxite Soldering) and two full page adverts (The Regent Institute, and Vimatol, a vitamin supplement from Ovaltine). Rear cover has two half-page adverts (Kolynos toothpaste & Royal Seal Tobacco).

4 • Scent of Pine • Harry Noyes Pratt • pm (r)
5 • Sappho • A. C. Malcolm • ss (r)
11 • Operation Badger • Frank S. Stuart • ss (r)
19 • A Girl Called Myrna • Peggy Mann • ss (r)
26 • Year’s at the Spring • Misc. Material • ms (r)
29 • Experimental Marriage • John Collier • ss (r)
45 • Song of Courtship • Anon.; trans. by Arthur Waley • pm (r)
46 • My True Love • Anon.; trans. by Arthur Waley • pm (r)
46 • Wedding Song • Anon.; trans. by Arthur Waley • pm (r)
47 • The Cyprian Cat • Dorothy L. Sayers • ss Harper’s Bazaar (UK) May ’33
57 • Somewhere, Somewhen— • Wilfrid Gibson • pm (r)
58 • They Were All Prisoners • Anon. • qz (r)
59 • A Slant on the Skipper • Richard Howells Watkins • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 10 ’46
67 • The Blackboard • Jessamyn West • ss Town & Country, 1946
75 • The Judas Goose • Winifred Van Etten • ss (r)
82 • Fighting Words • Misc. Material • ms (r)
85 • Al-Rafsat or The Kick • Hilaire Belloc • ss (r)
95 • Anything Will Do [from Overtures to Death] • C. Day Lewis • pm (r)
94 • From Here to There • Misc. Material • ms (r)
99 • Case for the Crown • Neil Paterson • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 5, May 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 96pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Pagecount down to 96pp. Front advert is back to a single full-page advert (for Alasil) and the rear cover has two half-page adverts (Kolynos toothpaste & Harrogate).

2 • If I Were King • W. E. Henley • pm (r)
3 • Bianca’s Hands • Theodore Sturgeon • ss; prize-winning story in the Argosy £250 competition.
11 • The Second Death • Graham Greene • ss
15 • Loadstone • Gerald Gould • pm (r)
16 • None but the Brave • Misc. Material • ms (r)
19 • Bad Luck McCall • William Holder • ss (r)
32 • Owl Song • Anon. • qz (r)
33 • Revenge • Samuel Blas • ss Colliers Jan 11 ’47
38 • Belvedere • John Masefield • pm (r)
39 • The Caddy Said “Moo” • Aleko Lilius • vi (r)
41 • Here We Go Quietly Nuts in May [from Good Intentions] • Ogden Nash • pm (r)
42 • Major Pleasures • Misc. Material • ms (r)
44 • Edna’s Fruit Hat • John Pudney • ss (r)
57 • The Outlaw of Cedar Forest • Edmund Ware • ss (r)
71 • Tale of a Queue • Norman Edwards • ss (r)
78 • Other Worlds Than This • Misc. Material • ms (r)
81 • Petite Cousine [from Harvest of the Lowlands] • Herman Teirlinck • ss (r)
96 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 6, June 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 96pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front advert is a single full-page advert (for Ovaltine) and the rear cover has two half-page adverts (Kolynos toothpaste & Royal Seal Tobacco).

2 • Song in June • Marion Peacock • pm The New Statesman
3 • Firstborn • Howard Fast • ss (r)
13 • Java • E. Hickman-Smith • ss (r)
27 • Summer Is a Wild Girl • Joseph Joel Keith • pm (r)
28 • A Matter of Opinion • Misc. Material • ms (r)
31 • The Keys of the City • A. C. Malcolm • ss (r)
36 • Happiness • May Sarton • pm (r)
37 • Monstrous Exhibit • A. G. Morris • ss (r)
44 • Neither Vegetable nor Mineral • Anon. • qz (r)
45 • The Adjusters • Virginia Douglas Dawson • ss (r)
54 • Travel Is So Broadening • Misc. Material • ms (r)
57 • Maria’s Christ [“The Mystery of Maria’s Christ”, as by Waldo Kellar] • Gerald Kersh • ss John Bull Jan 17 ’42
61 • In a Thicket • Glenway Westcott • ss (r)
67 • Once on a Sunday • Philip Wylie • ss (r)
80 • Private View • Misc. Material • ms (r)
83 • Take Us the Little Foxes • Gwyn Jones • ss (r)
96 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 7, July 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 96pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front advert is a single full-page advert (for Alasil) and the rear cover has two half-page adverts (Royal Seal Tobacco & The Fleet Street School of Authorship).

2 • Summer Moon [from Shorter Poems] • Robert Bridges • pm (r)
3 • Moment of Truth • P. J. Alexander • ss (r)
6 • The Lion that Wanted to Zoom • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Feb 4 ’39
7 • The Reef • Dorothy Cottrell • ss (r)
15 • Beatitude • C. Day Lewis • pm (r)
16 • On with the Dance • Misc. Material • ms (r)
19 • The Match Against Woody Bourton • John Moore • ss (r)
24 • What’s in a Name? • Anon. • qz (r)
25 • Madame Margot • John Bennett • ss Doctor to the Dead, Rinehart, 1946
38 • Old Sweet Song • Misc. Material • ms (r)
39 • Craftsman’s Poem • N. G. Strong • ss (r)
47 • Reconstruction of a Crime • Laurence Kirk • ss (r)
60 • Medicine Man • Misc. Material • ms (r)
63 • A Cup of Tea • Phyllis Bottome • ss (r)
69 • The Rivals • Neil Bell • ss (r)
74 • Skylines • Misc. Material • ms (r)
77 • Jenshih, or the Fox Lady • Shen Chi-Chi • ss Traditional Chinese Tales, Columbia University Press, 1944
85 • The Triumphant Thumb • Antonia Ridge • ss (r)
96 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 8, August 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Pagecount is back to 128pp. Front page adverts are back to three pages - 3 half-page adverts (Euthymol toothpaste, National Savings Certificates & Royal Seal Tobacco), 1 full page (The Regent Institute), and 2 quarter-page adverts (Nufix Hair Dressing & Wallace Attwood College), while the rear cover is a single full-page (The Fleet Street School of Authorship).

4 • Enchantment • William Butler Yeats • pm (r)
5 • Duel • Alis de Sola • ss (r)
11 • The Best Year • D. D. Beauchamp • ss (r)
20 • Spare the Rod • Anon. • qz (r)
21 • Bull’s Eye View • B. L. Jacot • ss (r)
26 • To Present My Love • Misc. Material • ms (r)
29 • Cloak of Neptune • A. D. K. Johnston • ss (r)
47 • Chinese Story • John Leimert • ss (r)
54 • Royal Flush • Misc. Material • ms (r)
57 • Just Walked In, He Did • K. M. Harris • nv (r)
80 • To Bed Betimes • Misc. Material • ms (r)
83 • A Present for Mrs. Jessy • F. Creighton • ss (r)
86 • On What Beautiful Morning • T. H. White • pm (r)
87 • Reddest Flower in Rio • Thomas Aitken • ss (r)
96 • Constant Inconstancy • Misc. Material • ms (r)
99 • Jane • W. Somerset Maugham • nv Hearst’s International Apr ’23
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 # 9, September 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front page adverts are 2 half-page adverts (Milk of Magnesia tablets & Wills’s Cut Golden Bar), and 2 full-page adverts (The Regent Institute & Alasil). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship.

4 • Vagabond Song • William Bliss Carman • pm (r)
5 • Roman Holiday • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss (r)
19 • Ann and the Cow • Johannes V. Jensen • vi (r)
21 • Biological Reflections [“Random Reflections: Biological”] • Ogden Nash • pm New Yorker Jul 12 ’30
22 • My True Love • Misc. Material • ms (r)
25 • The Price of the Head • John Russell • ss Colliers May 20 ’16
35 • The Long Night • Lucy Cavan • ss (r)
46 • Water Ways • Misc. Material • ms (r)
49 • The Book • Margaret Irwin • ss The London Mercury Sep ’30
62 • Footsteps • C. Day Lewis • pm (r)
63 • The Puzzle Knot • Walter C. Brown • ss (r)
68 • Night and Day • Misc. Material • ms (r)
69 • Our Lady of Gwithian • Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch • ss (r)
74 • Once Upon a Time • Misc. Material • ms (r)
77 • A Petticoat for Linda • Thomas H. Raddall • ss (r)
90 • Poet’s Cornucopia • Anon. • qz (r)
91 • Fountain Pen • John Hersey • ss (r)
99 • Chestnut • J. T. Story • vi (r)
101 • The Sly Dog • Virginia Dale • ss (r)
104 • The Orchestra Speaks • Misc. Material • ms (r)
107 • Sir Dominick’s Bargain • J. Sheridan Le Fanu • ss All the Year Round Jul 6, 1872; revised from “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh”, Dublin University Magazine Mar 1838.
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 #10, October 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/3d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front page adverts are 2 half-page adverts (Fluxite Solder & National Savings Certificates), and 2 full-page adverts (The Regent Institute & Ovaltine). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship.

4 • Sea Bird’s Song • Walt Whitman • pm (r)
5 • The Six Suitors of Ballymara • Charles H. Connell • ss (r)
13 • The Fish [“Autres Betes, Auteurs Moeurs I”] • Ogden Nash • pm New Yorker Nov 15 ’30
14 • Let’s Face the Facts • Misc. Material • ms (r)
17 • Inca • John McGhee • ss (r)
32 • Afterglow • Misc. Material • ms (r)
33 • The Emperor’s Mushrooms [“The Problem of the Emperor’s Mushrooms”; _Paul Dawn_] • James Yaffe • ss EQMM Sep ’45
42 • Such Stuff as Dreams • Anon. • qz (r)
43 • A Lovely Funeral • Phylis Hastings • ss (r)
48 • Broadly Speaking • Misc. Material • ms (r)
51 • Speaking for Herself • Laurence Housman • ss (r)
54 • Dear Dark Head • Anon. • pm (r)
55 • Love in a Junk • Anon.; trans. by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-Hsieh • ss (r)
75 • Duet • J. T. Story • vi (r)
77 • Once a Week [from Home Front Memo] • Carl Sandburg • vi (r)
78 • Genesis • Misc. Material • ms (r)
81 • Son of Thunder • John T. Foote • ss (r)
97 • The Musical Conductor’s Story • Karel Capek • ss (r)
100 • One at a Time • Aesop • vi (r)
101 • Sailor’s Wooing • Thomas Henderson • ss (r)
108 • Strange to Relate • Misc. Material • ms (r)
111 • Spoil the Child • Howard Fast • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 6 ’38
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 #11, November 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); With this issue the price rises to 1/6d, and the cover changes again (slightly) - the angle of the ship changes slightly and the background map and associated zephyr have vanished. Front page adverts are 4 half-page adverts (British Institute of Engineering Technology, National Savings Certificates, Fluxite Solder & The Regent Institute), and 1 full-page advert (Alasil). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship.

4 • Cloudbreak • John Freeman • pm (r)
5 • Lasting Heritage • W. Hagen • ss (r)
14 • Making Certain [from Me and the Mediterranean] • Naomi Jacob • vi (r)
15 • Appearance and Reality • W. Somerset Maugham • ss (r)
27 • The Octopus [“Nature Gets More Wonderful Every Day: The Octopus”] • Ogden Nash • pm New Yorker Aug 30 ’41
28 • Primrose Path • Misc. Material • ms (r)
31 • Father Intervenes • R. K. Narayan • ss (r)
37 • The Hunting of Ian Og • Naomi Mitchison • ss (r)
56 • Fool’s Paradise • Misc. Material • ms (r)
59 • My Sentimental Aunt • Gene Dowell • ss (r)
63 • All Souls’ • Gladys Schmitt • ss Colliers Nov 6 ’43
74 • Sea-Change • Misc. Material • ms (r)
75 • The Dragon Cup • Arthur Waley • ss (r)
82 • Pageant by Candlelight • David Morton • pm (r)
83 • Unaccountable Hero • Richard Stern • ss (r)
95 • The Departure • Selma Robinson • ss Harper’s Oct ’32; The (London) Evening Standard Aug 19 ’35
100 • Fire Down Below! • Anon. • qz (r)
101 • The Body Is Faithful • Alis de Sola • ss (r)
110 • A Nice Perfection • Misc. Material • ms (r)
113 • King O’Toole and St. Kevin • Samuel Lover • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 8 #12, December 1947] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front page adverts are 2 half-page adverts (Milk of Magnesia tablets & Embassy cigarettes), and 2 full-page adverts (London School of Journalism & Vimatol). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship.

4 • Heritage • V. Sackville-West • pm (r)
5 • A Gentleman of Fortune • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss, 1941
16 • Guide to the Zoo: The Cow [“They Live, They Breathe I: The Cow”] • Ogden Nash • pm New Yorker Apr 11 ’31
16 • Guide to the Zoo: The Cobra [“They Live, They Breathe III: The Cobra”] • Ogden Nash • pm New Yorker Apr 11 ’31
17 • Once Aboard the Trawler • Neil Bell • ss (r)
23 • The Crow and the Oriole • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Jul 29 ’39
24 • Slightly Sinister • Misc. Material • ms (r)
27 • Miracle Goat • Kay Boyle • ss (r)
40 • Dolphins • Hamish Maclaren • ss (r)
41 • No. 14. Tulip Crescent [“The Scene of the Crime”] • Gerald Kersh • ss The Evening News Apr 6 ’46
46 • Lo! and Behold • Misc. Material • ms (r)
49 • Back There in the Grass • Gouverneur Morris • ss Colliers Dec 16 ’11
61 • One Sunday Afternoon • Norman Edwards • ss (r)
65 • Where Love Is, God Is • Leo Tolstoy • ss (r)
76 • So Fair My Love • Misc. Material • ms (r)
77 • Attila • R. K. Narayan • ss (r)
81 • The Condemned • P. J. Alexander • ss Colliers Jan 25 ’47
85 • The Smiler with the Knife • Anon. • qz (r)
86 • Chez Nous • Misc. Material • ms (r)
89 • Cloonaturk • Mervyn Wall • ss
99 • The Perfect Crime • Ormond Greville • ss Pearson’s Magazine, 1932
110 • The Food of Love • Misc. Material • ms (r)
113 • Mrs. Kavanagh • Ella MacMahon • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 9 # 1, January 1948] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6")

4 • White Miracle • David Morton • pm (r)
5 • The Fall of the Fothergays • Noel Langley • ss The Saturday Evening Post
20 • The Porpoise • Ogden Nash • pm (r)
21 • The Best Bed • Sylvia Townsend Warner • ss (r)
24 • Bright Star Shining • Misc. Material • ms (r)
27 • Souse of the Border • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21 ’46
37 • Enoch • Robert Bloch • ss Weird Tales Sep ’46
49 • Christmas Box • Anon. • qz (r)
50 • A Peal of Bells • Misc. Material • ms (r)
53 • The Other Side of the Curtain • Helen McCloy • nv EQMM Sep ’47
72 • Two Lovers • Misc. Material • ms (r)
73 • Sealskin Trousers • Eric Linklater • ss The Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories, London: Hart-Davis, 1947
86 • A Strange Story • O. Henry • vi (r)
87 • The Return • K. C. Seaman • ss (r)
96 • Party Time • Misc. Material • ms (r)
99 • Small Change • Donald Shoubridge • ss (r)
107 • The Corridor of Venus • Neil Bell • ss (r)
112 • Pieces of Eight • Misc. Material • ms (r)
113 • The Knife • John Russell • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 7 ’25
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 9 # 2, February 1948] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front page adverts are 2 half-page adverts (Royal Seal tobacco & National Savings), and 2 full-page adverts (The Regent Institute & London School of Journalism). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship. [PSP]

4 • Forester’s Song • A. E. Coppard • pm (r)
5 • This Stuff Is Like Cigarette Ash • Gerald Kersh • ss The People Mar 5 ’44
9 • Wang Lung’s Marriage Day [from The Good Earth] • Pearl Buck • ex (r)
25 • With This Ring • Anon. • qz (r)
26 • It’s a Mad World • Misc. Material • ms (r)
29 • A Bright Red Ribbon • Alan Wykes • ss (r)
41 • Ajam Boglay [from Yes and No Stories] • George & Helen Papashvily • ss (r)
50 • Time of Waiting • George Howell • pm (r)
51 • Delirium No. 3 • Joseph Wechsberg • ss (r)
62 • Two by Two • Misc. Material • ms (r)
65 • The Quest • Gwyn Jones • ss (r)
73 • A Little Fire • A. Polonsky • ss (r)
84 • Winter’s Tale • Misc. Material • ms (r)
87 • The Donkey • George Roderick • ss (r)
94 • Song for Saint Valentine • Misc. Material • ms (r)
95 • King of Sarahb [_Joseph Jorkens_] • Lord Dunsany • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’26
101 • Asphodel • Edwin Lanham • ss Colliers Jun 10 ’44; EQMM May ’47
109 • Mind Over Matter • E. V. Knox • pm (r)
110 • It’s Being So Cheerful • Misc. Material • ms (r)
113 • The Arms of Gods • Edward Barry Roberts • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

Argosy (UK) [v 9 # 3, March 1948] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 128pp, 4.7" x 7.6"); Front page adverts are 2 half-page adverts (Royal Seal tobacco & National Savings), and 2 full-page adverts (The Regent Institute & Alasil). The rear cover is still a single full-page for The Fleet Street School of Authorship. [JE/PSP]

4 • March Gold • L. Woodworth Reese • pm (r)
5 • Captain of the Turtles • T. Woodrooffe • ss (r)
13 • One Head Well Done • John D. Swain • nv Top-Notch Nov #1 ’30
32 • Very Like a Whale • Misc. Material • ms (r)
35 • Ambassador of Love • Richard Stern • ss (r)
47 • Foxy’s Trot • H. A. Manhood • ss (r)
48 • End of the Beginning • Anon. • pm Punch
53 • The Tree • Neill C. Wilson • ss (r)
62 • O Mistress Mine! • Misc. Material • ms (r)
65 • The King Who Collected Clocks [“Royal Impostor”] • Gerald Kersh • nv The Saturday Evening Post May 3 ’47
85 • The Leaping Lad • Sid Chaplin • ss The Leaping Lad and other stories, Phoenix House, 1947
94 • Off with the Motley • Misc. Material • ms (r)
97 • Harp • William Fifield • ss (r)
104 • Dear Delight • Walter de la Mare • pm (r)
105 • The Mind Readers • Ogden Nash • vi (r)
107 • Outcast • Neil Bell • ss (r)
113 • The Benefit Concert • Rhys Davies • ss (r)
128 • Argosy Crossword • Anon. • pz (r)

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