Talk:McClure's Magazine

Copyright renewals

No general copyright renewals for this magazine for the period 1923-1929 have been located. The following specific renewals have been identified:

• Feb. 1923, Author:Dixie Willson, Dust in the Doorway, R72268
• Jan. 1924, Author:H. C. McNeile, An Experiment in Electricity, R72050, First published abroad in Pearson's Magazine, June 1923.
• Jun. 1923-Jan. 1924, Author:H. C. McNeile (under pseudonym "Sapper"), The Third Round, in 5 parts, R66657, R67530, R69478, R71037, R72049. Published abroad in Sovereign magazine, 1923 in different order.
• Aug.-Oct. 1926, Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams, Summer bachelors, installments 3-5, R116784-5, R118186. No indication that first two installments had copyright renewed.
• Sep.-Oct. 1926, Author:Lily (Moresby) Adams Beck, The captain herself, R1176692-3. Additional renewal by different person R132155-6.
• Oct. 1926-Mar. 1927, Author:Warwick Deeping, The new eve, R130709-14
• Jul.-Sep. 1926, Author:Harvey Fergusson, Hot Saturday, R130188-90
• Jan. 1927, Author:Louis Bromfield, A scarlet woman, R139667
• May-Nov. 1928, Author:A. E. W. Mason, The prisoner in the opal, R158401-7.
• Feb. 1929 (New McClure's), Author:Richard Connell, Mr. Pottle and the Russian problem, R165483
• Nov. 1929 (in combination with "Smart Set"), Author:Emma Lindsay Squier, Cloak of desire, R181721
• Mar. 1930 (in combination with "Smart Set"), Author:Kathleen Norris, The kind of girl I want my son to marry., R186373
• Apr. 1930 (in Smart set-McClure's), Author:Frank R. Adams, A woman around the house, R196810
• Apr. 1930 (in Smart set-McClure's), Author:Emma Lindsay Squier, Lost turquoise, R199056
• June 1930 (in New smart set-McClure's), Author:Edward Longstreth, The party of the month, prophecies for petters, R213421
• July 1930 (in New smart set), Author:Edward Longstreth, The party of the month, anagrams, R213423

Phantom issues for v56 and v57

The site <http://www.philsp.com/mags/mcclures.html> lists *two* volumes 57: one that runs for four issues from May to August 1924, and another than runs for six issues from July through December 1926. Additionally, volume 56 is said to have an issue number 6 published in June 1926 just before the phantom v57v1. While the latter doesn't overlap with the earlier set of issue in volume 56 from 1924, it does raise the question of what happened to v56v5.

Do these phantom issues even exist? There are no magazine covers shown. -- C. A. Russell (talk) 00:37, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

The list of renewals above does indicate renewals for late 1926, so there's at least some evidence that *something* was published then. -- C. A. Russell (talk) 00:47, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

We also have this ad in the San Francisco Examiner (paywalled; I don't have access) for The New McClure's: <https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/457478388/>.

Evidently it mentions e.g. "The Station R-O-X-Y" and "Big Eyes and Little Mouth" as well as others that are purportedly present in v56n6.

The FMI page says that the v56n6 details were "supplied by Ira B. Matetsky from a copy at the NYPL". (No link to that section, since FMI links aren't stable.) -- C. A. Russell (talk) 01:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

I have also found evidence of the phantom v56n6 issue in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, p 604:

Tarkington, Both. The first story every told. (In McClure's, June 1926) © 14May26, B700297. R112163, 15May53, Susanah K. Tarkington (W)

<https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries_Third_Serie/whYhAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA604&printsec=frontcover> --  C. A. Russell (talk) 23:51, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Scans of 1900-10 issues uploaded to Commons

Just a note to interested people - scans of many (not all) issues of McClure's Magazine published between 1900 and 1910 have been uploaded to Commons. Please check the associated years' categories. Ciridae (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Here's a link: commons:Category:McClure's Magazine

It's unfortunate that as with so many of these, the uploaded file is the PDF and not the DJVU. If I were going to start transcribing one of these, I would probably go back to IA and upload the DJVU file first. I've failed to take that step a number of times, and transcribed PDF files, and I regret that choice. Fæ, I know you have uploaded a tremendous number of PDFs from IA...wonderful work, but I wonder if this point has ever caught your attention before? If you're still actively engaged in uploading scanned documents from IA, maybe you could adjust to prefer the DJVU? -Pete (talk) 02:17, 15 January 2025 (UTC)