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Great art - Detroit Free Press, 1933-34...

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I've been asked to share some of my collection of weird esoterica, and thought that maybe sharing them in General would be preferable to putting them into the cloistered halls of one of the genre/era specific boards...

 

These are the front covers to a series of novels that were printed in newspapers every Sunday, from 1933 to 1940-something... I contacted Tim Cottrill at Bookery's concerning them, and he had never run across them. I acquired mine from a random seller on eBay, who simply advertised these as a "Bound volume of Sunday Novels"... What it was, in fact, was the archives from the Detroit Free Press. I purchased both volumes, which contained the first 96 Novels put out, in two hardcover, embossed volumes, stringbound (so there was ZERO damage done to the individual Novels). Here are the first 48 issues, the first four of which I had gone in and edited with Photoshop, but the rest are just taken with my digital camera... Hope ya'll can dig what I'm shovelin'!

 

C32editSundayNovel1933-11-26HonorAm.jpgC32editSundayNovel1933-12-03TheOstr.jpgC32editTheSundayNovel1933-12-10Nort.jpgC32editTheSundayNovel1933-12-17TheL.jpgTheSundayNovel1933-12-24LovelyClayb.jpgTheSundayNovel1933-12-31MoneyMadbyR.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-01-07MurderatMon.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-01-14SmartWomanb.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-01-21SlanderbyAr.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-01-28FlameintheF.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-02-04ProtectingM.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-02-11TheMysteryo.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-02-18ShyCinderel.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-02-25LightedWind.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-03-04TheClockTic.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-03-11AstheEarthT.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-03-18TheBrighter.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-03-25BeggarsAllb.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-04-01Caughtinthe.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-04-08TheManFromS.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-04-15GallantAdve.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-04-22GlassWallsb.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-04-2913atDinnerb.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-05-06TwoBlackShe.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-05-13HilltopsCle.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-05-20MurderonSha.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-05-27SnowTrenche.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-06-03TheresAlway.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-06-10WinterRange.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-06-17WalkWithCar.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-06-24TheHouseofY.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-07-01MissAladdin.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-07-08MorningsatS.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-07-15TheBorrowed.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-07-22Mysteryofth.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-07-29ThePuzzleof.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-08-05MurderinTri.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-08-12WatchtheCur.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-08-19TheLesserAn.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-08-26WildHeartsb.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-09-02TheParachut.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-09-09ShiftingSan.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-09-16HoneymoonMo.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-09-23Professiona.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-09-30TheTransatl.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-10-07RedClarkeRi.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-10-14FromNinetoF.jpgTheSundayNovel1934-10-21BeachBeauty.jpg

 

Each of these Sunday Novels contains from one to eight illustrations inside, and each runs 15 pages of story, and one page of ads... truly beautiful relics from a bygone era... And newspapers wonder why their circulation has gone down... if they still offered quality inserts like these, I would buy them!

 

Cimm

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A great find. You can almost smell the newsprint.

 

I assume these novels are abridged at 15 pages? Would it be worth it to compare to an easily found novel such as Christie's 13 at Dinner (127 regular hardback pages at a small 10 or 11 point font)?

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Actually, yeah, I would like to compare them... The novels are not stated to be abridged, and the font on these leads me to believe that it COULD be the complete novel, given the size (13 X 16", approximately)...

 

 

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