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Part 1 covers the first 22 issues.
Xenophile [Vol 1 #1,
March 1974] (24pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
2 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
9 · [Untitled poem]
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
12 · Vincent
Starrett 1886-1974 · ar
15 · [Untitled poem]
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
24 · To Vincent
Starrett · Arch Alfred McKillen · pm
Xenophile [Vol 1 #2,
April 1974] (32pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
2 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
8 · [Untitled poem]
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
26 · Pulp Collecting
-- For Fun or Fortune · Rusty Hevelin · ar
28 · [Untitled poem]
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
Xenophile [Vol 1 #3,
May 1974] (28pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
4 · The Diavolo
Quartet · Francis M. Nevins Jr. · ar
6 · The Devil you
say · Nick Carr · ar
· [Untitled poem] · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
· [Untitled poem] · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 1 #4,
June 1974] (44pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
7 · Just a little
matter of Doom · Bob Sampson · ar
37 · Remembering
John Creasey · Francis M. Nevins Jr. · ar
39 · [Untitled poem]
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
Xenophile [Vol 1 #5,
July 1974] (44pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
4 · The two faces of
Herr Matzu · Nick Carr · ar
6 · Oak Park
revisited · Michael Murphy · ss
39 · Tarzan and the
Mayas. · John F. Sullivan · ar
Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 1 #6,
August-September 1974] (32pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · The realm of
In-Between · Walter Shedlofsky · ss
8 · The legless
runner · Michael Avallone · ar
4 · Quoth the Raven,
'Nevermore' · Nick Carr · ar
Xenophile [Vol 1 #7,
August-September 1974] (80pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
Illustrations by
Frank Hamilton and Bruce Walker
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · Sexton Blake:
The Office Boy's Sherlock Holmes? · Fr. Francis Hertzberg · ar; illustrated by
Frank Hamilton
7 · The Chronicle of
Christoper Syn [Part 1 of 3] · Nick Carr · ar
9 · Biblio-File · · cl
9 · Biblio-File · · cl
10 · Home workshop
Dept: Hand of Glory · Douglas Graves ·
ar
12 · A Bibliography
of Manly Wade Wellman · Karl E. Wagner & Edwin Murray · ar
65 · Trinapulation
of the Albitron · Walter Shedlofsky · ss
66 · Star Magazine:
A Summary Checklist · Nils Hardin · ar
68 · Apostil Apostle
· Helan Halbach ·
68 · When Pulp was
Gold · Michael Avallone · ar
69 · An Index to
Fantastic Novels · Gary Shaheen · ar
72 · Some Thoughts
about Robert Bloch · Bruce Walker · ar
Xenophile [Vol 1 #8,
November 1974] (40pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
4 · Biblio-File · · cl
Xenophile [Vol 1 #9,
December 1974] (56 pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · The Chronicle of
Christoper Syn [Part 2 of 3] · Nick Carr · ar
7 · Doc Savage on
the air · George Hocutt · ar
9 · Biblio-File · · cl
10 · The Shadow
Codes · Walter Shedlofsky · ar
11 · Index to Avon
Fantasy and Science Fiction Readers [Part 1 of 2] · Brian Perry · bi
16 · Mini books of
Basil Wells · Basil Wells · ar
37 · The little
dread Schoolhouse · Michael Avallone · ar
Xenophile [Vol 1
#10, January 1975] (44pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
2 · The other Shadow
· Will Murray · ar
4 · The Strand · Father Francis Hertzberg · ar
5 · Index to Avon
Fantasy and Science Fiction Readers [Part 2 of 2] · Brian Perry · bi
8 · The Chronicle of
Christoper Syn [Part 3 of 3] · Nick Carr · ar
10 · The pulp
reincarnation · Nick Carr · ar
11 ·
Biblio-File · · cl
12 · Dreams' Tokens
· Walter Shedlofsky · pm
Xenophile [Vol 1
#10.5, February 1975] (28pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 1
#11, March 1975] (132pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
7 · Lonely are the
great (Cornell Woolrich) · Michael Avallone · ar
8 · The smell of
pulps · Jon Inouye · ar
9 · Biblio-File · · cl
9 · Ishmael Reed's
neo-Hoodooism · Dave Buck · ar
11 · G-8, Flying spy
of the pulps · Sidney H. Bradd · ar
17 · The Saint's
Boston caper · John A. Dinan · ar
111 · Dinosaur! (Doc
Savage) · Bob Sampson · ar
115 · Nippy Weston:
Girl Flyer · John Sullivan · ar
118 · HPL: The book
that nearly was · Kenneth Faig Jr. · ar
123 · Adieu to the
Avenger · Nick Carr · ar
123 · The weirdest
tale of all · Emil Petaja · ar
128 · Who Fears the
Devil · Karl Edward Wagner · mr
131 · The versatile
Vincent · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
1, #13, May 1975] (68pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
6 · Emily Dickinson,
Where Are You? Herman Melville Called Your Name Last Night in His Sleep! · Ray
Bradbury · pm
9 · Ray Bradbury An
Index [Part 1 of 3] · Donn Albright · bi
58 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
2, #14, June 1975] (68pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
2 · A Queen Quandary
Quickly Quavered in Quixotic Quondam Quotation (A Note on Notations Re: Queen)
· Michael Murphy · ar
4 · Editor at work:
Ellery Queen and EQMM · Francis M. Nevins Jr. · ar
6 · Biblio-File · · cl
8 · Mystery League:
A summary · Nils Hardin · ar
14· Quest for
Nirvana · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
14 · Fungi from
Yuggoth · Walter Shedlofsky · br
54 · Royal
Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective · Marvin Lachman · br
55 · From…….. tcqb
(The Queen Canon Bibliofile) · Nils Hardin · ar
62 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
3, #15, July 1975] (56pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · Will F. Jenkins
· James Ellis · ar
6 · An Interview
with Murray Leinster · Will F. Jenkins · ar (originally appeared in Fantasy
Magazine, Sep 1934)
10 ·
Biblio-File · · cl
13 · Letters · lc
45 · Memories of
Ngai · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
46 · Pulpcon 4 ·
Nils Hardin · ar
48 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
4, #16, August 1975] (48pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
4 · Pulp Information
Center· Nils Hardin · cl
5 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
5, #17, September 1975] (64pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · Walter Gibson ·
Frank Gruber · bg (originally appeared in The Armchair Detective, Jan 1970)
6 · ForeShadowings
[Part 1 of 3] · Bill Blackbeard · ar
8 · Grace Note
(Grace Culver, Shadow magazine) · Bob Sampson · ar
55 · The Occult
detector by J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith · William J. Clark · bi
56 · Cole Wilson: A
portrait · Nick Carr · ar
58 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
60 · A clergyman's
irregular crime file (assorted book reviews) · Robert E. Washer · ar
61 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
6, #18, October 1975] (140pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
2 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
3 · Inside the
outsider · Robert Bloch · bg
7 · The Lovecraft
family in America · R. Alain Everts · bg
8 · Young man
Lovecraft · L. Sprague de Camp · bg
9 · H.P. Lovecraft ·
Vincent Starrett · pm
10 · Lovecraft's
Ladies · Ben P. Indick · ar
13 · H.P. Lovecraft:
Rabid Racist - or Compassionate Gentleman? · Dirk W. Mosig · ar
16 · The call of
Lovecraft · Willis Conover · ar
17 · Innsmouth
revisited · Frank Belknap Long · pm
18 · The Ghost of
Ec'h-Pi-El · · ar
20 · Ronald Clyne: A
portrait · · bg
22 · Starrett vs.
Machen · Michael Murphy · ar
25 · Groon · Ray
Bradbury · pm
28 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
33 · Letter · E.
Hoffman Price · lt
33 · Jules de
Grandin returns · Bob Weinberg · ar
34 · The Shadow and
the Hieroglyph · Walter Shedlofsky · pm
35 · The work of
Clark Ashton Smith · E.P. Berglund · bi
42 · An unborn first
edition · Glenn Lord · ar
47 · Contributors ·
Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
7, #19, December 1975] (40pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
38 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
7 (should be 8), #20, January 1976] (48pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
5 · Why I collect
Science Fiction · Victor Dricks; Forest J. Ackerman; Gerry de la Ree; Steven
Leventhal; Robert Madle; Robert Weinberg · ar
9 · The end of the
world and the day after · Robert L. Brown · ar
37 · A remembrance
of Fantastic Novels · James Ellis · ar
39 · Pierre Versin's
Encyvlopedie · Bruce Robbins · br
40 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
41 · The long
history of Short Stories · William J.
Clark · ar
42 · An index to Planet Stories [Part 1 of 4] · Robert O'Malley
· bi
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
8(should be 9), #21, March 1976] (60pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
3 · The Marquis of
unremembered Manhunters [Marquis of Broadway] · Francis M. Nevins Jr. · ar
5 · Hammett in
Hollywood · William F. Nolan · ar
7 · Spenser:
Hardboiled roots · Bernard Drew · ar
8 · Rex Stout ·
Michael Bourne · ar
9 · Pulp Information
Center· Nils Hardin · cl
10 · For mystery
critics only: Hard-boiled detective division · Michael Avallone · ar
47 · Vincent
Starrett on the hard-boiled school · Michael Murphy · ar
49 · Robert Leslie
Bellem: The great unknown · Stephen Mertz · bg
51 · Dan Turner ·
Nick Carr · ar
52 · Raymond
Chandler, novelist · James W. Thomson · bg
54 · A clergyman's
irregular crime file (assorted book reviews) · Robert E. Washer · ar
55 · An index to Planet Stories [Part 2 of 4] · Robert O'Malley
· bi
Xenophile [Vol 2 No
9(should be 10), #22, March-April 1976] (140pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils
Hardin · ed
2 · How Fred Gray
found happiness with a pulp price guide · Nils Hardin · ss
8 · Fourteen Issues
(Scotland Yard magazine) · Bob Sampson ·
ar
12 · Jimmie Dale:
pulp archetype · Don Hutchison · ar
15 · The pulp career
of Nicholas Carter · J. Randolph Cox · ar
20 · The Shadow: The
Fallen Mighty · Dean A. Grennell · ar
24 · Mistress of
violence (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) · Nick Carr · ar
26 · Fading shadows,
fighting men extraordinary · Tom Johnson · ar
30 · ForeShadowings
[Part 2 of 3] · Bill Blackbeard · ar
34 · Donald E.
Keyhoe and the Brain Devil of G-2 · Sidney H. Bradd · ar
36 · How I got into
aviation writing · Arch Whitehouse · bg
38 · Heroes of the
flying pulps [Part 1 of 2] · Herm Schreider · ar
40 · An index to Bill Barnes novels · Will Murray · bi
42 · H.
Bedford-Jones in Blue Book · William J.
Clark · bi
46 · Pulp
Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
47 · Index to New Mystery Adventures/Mystery Adventure
Magazine/Mystery Adventures Magazine [Part 1 of 2] · Fred Cook and
Gordon Huber · bi
48 · An index to Planet Stories [Part 3 of 4] · Robert O'Malley
· bi
49 · Letters · lc
55 · Pulp · Robert
Sampson · ar
I have all the issues also and was an original subscriber right from the beginning. I was friends with Nils Hardin and we corresponded for several years. He was a regular at the early Pulpcons and winner of the first Lamont Award.
ReplyDeleteThe pulp ads were a big part of the magazine and when an issue arrived in the mail, I dropped everything and quickly mailed orders in an attempt to get pulps. I often sent more money than was required since that often gave me an edge in getting my wants. Money talks and it's a pulp jungle out there!
Walker, you must have been the quickest mail order gunman in the east, judging by the collection you have now. Did your postal worker ever have anything to say about the volume of stuff delivered? Mine knows me by name because i get 2-3 packages every week, and when i told him it's all for a book collection, he shook his head...
DeleteSai, at one period lasting several years, I was ordering quite a bit of books, pulps, dvds, music cds and art. I was often receiving several packages per day, many times 8 or 9. I believe the most was one day I received 13 packages from different sources.
DeleteMy mail person at the time was a lady and she started to slam the packages down on the porch, referring to them as "another load of bricks". She complained more than once to me that she did not get credit for delivering packages and they only slowed her up, etc.
After damaging some vhs video tapes and bound volumes by practically kicking them to my front porch, I started to listen for her mail truck and most of the time I managed to meet her at the bottom of my driveway and personally take delivery of my boxes without her having to walk to my front porch. This way I prevented any further damage.
One seller in the UK used to send me many packages containing complete sets of literary magazines and customs started the unfortunate habit of stabbing some type of implement into the boxes. I guess they were looking for drugs or something illegal. This resulted in the ruining of a bound set of magazines since one bound volume was completely damaged by a large hole in the binding. The seller filed a claim with the Royal Mail and I got a couple hundred pounds credit but the set is flawed now because 20 or so volumes are nicely bound but one is made up of 6 individual loose magazines.
Trials and tribulations of being an obsessive book collector... But I wouldn't have it any other way!
My mail worker is very kind, and leaves packages at my front door, under the porch, so that they don't get rained on. Sometimes, though, someone else takes his route and they drop it off at the back porch, which i never use, and i spend a few minutes trying to figure out where it is...other than than, no problems to report. Never had a drop kicked package, thank god.
DeleteOh, and one time I was called to the post office to pickup a package and they thought i was shipping other stuff via media mail because, I kid you not, "it sounds like clothes inside...". They opened the package and saw the books and magazines. Now they never ask me anything...
These days, postal workers should be glad they just have work. Overall, mail volume is way down from what it used to be.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if that's correct. While personal mail volume has decreased, at least around here, Amazon uses USPS for a lot of their deliveries. And there's always junk mail, which seems to keep growing...
DeleteI for one think that USPS does an excellent job overall, and you can't beat it for price most of the time. I've even had a cover painting delivered via USPS priority mail - reached in 2 days no issues.
Looks like there was no #12 ? Skips from 11 to 13.
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