Boys' Friend Library
Entry updated 20 June 2022. Tagged: Publication.
Imprint of the London-based Amalgamated Press, mostly reprinting fiction from The Boys' Friend and other Boys' Papers – such as Champion, Chums, Gem, Magnet, Nelson Lee Library, The Modern Boy, Pilot, Pluck, Ranger and Rocket – in paperback form; there were also some original titles and reissues of original Children's SF novels from other publishers. The first Boys' Friend Library series began in 1906, initially with 144-page volumes but for the most part extending to only 120 pages (70-75,000 words). The second series, running from 1925 to 1940, seems to consist wholly of Chapbooks (less than 100pp) using very small print so that a 96-page example might contain some 60,000 words of text. Boys' Friend Library contributors with entries in this encyclopedia are listed below. [DRL/SH]
see also: Captain Justice.
Boys' Friend Library authors
- H J Allingham
- Frank Aubrey as by Fenton Ash
- Harry Wedgwood Belfield as by Rupert Drake
- Leslie Beresford
- Lester Bidston; also as by Paul Hotspur
- Ladbroke Black as by Lionel Day
- Stacey Blake
- Edwy Searles Brooks
- Cecil H Bullivant as by Maurice Everard
- Frank Knowles Campling as by Eric Wood
- Alfred Edgar; also as by Roger Fowey
- John Garbutt
- Robert Murray Graydon as by Murray Roberts
- Dagney Hayward
- William Benjamin Home-Gall as by Reginald Wray
- Walter H Light as by Wingrove Willson
- Maurice Lincoln
- Stuart Martin
- Temple Murdoch
- Hugh Orton
- Alec G Pearson
- George E Rochester
- Arthur Joseph Steffens as by Arthur S Hardy
- W T Taylor as by John Bredon and as by Dave Gregory
- Sidney Warwick and Francis Warwick
- W George Wright as by Paul Quinton
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