Altus Press Announces The Argosy
Library
The First Series of Releases Features
Popular Authors Such as Lester Dent, Otis Adelbert Kline, W.C. Tuttle, and
George F. Worts
March 18,
2015: Altus Press today announced the premiere of its new line of books: The
Argosy Library series.
Founded
at the end of the Nineteenth Century by publishing tycoon Frank A. Munsey, Argosy Magazine quickly became one of the most popular—and
prestigious—fiction magazines of its day and spawned a publishing revolution.
Known as one
of the most literate pulp magazines, Argosy published thousands of short
stories and novels, many of which features some of the most influential series
characters in popular fiction.
With the
inauguration of The Argosy Library, Altus Press plans to bring back into print
the best of the Frank A. Munsey Company, sourced from its suite of sibling
titles such as Argosy, The All-Story, and Flynn’s
Detective Fiction Weekly, among others.
The
Argosy Library expects to showcase the varied mix of genres that made Argosy
one of the most popular pulps of all time, and Series 1 does just that by
showcasing adventure, mystery, western, science fiction, fantasy, and crime
stories by some of Munsey’s most popular authors such as Lester
Dent, W. Wirt, Otis Adelbert Kline, W.C. Tuttle, George F. Worts, and Theodore
Roscoe, among others.
The
Argosy Library will be released in series of ten books at a time—in matching
trade dress—and will be available in softcover, hardcover, and ebook editions.
In addition to being available separately, each series of releases can be
purchased as a single, heavily-discounted set.
Series 1
of The Argosy Library is expected to be released in May. For more information,
please visit Altus Press.com.
Titles in Series 1 of The Argosy
Library:
Genius Jones by Lester Dent,
introduction by Will Murray
The gold-dusted saga of a red-bearded
young giant, raised in the Arctic on seal-meat and encyclopedias, who descends
on civilization with a loud and solid crash. In his search for wisdom and
adventure, the man Jones doesn’t have Aladdin’s lamp—but
he doesn’t really need it…. Never before reprinted, it’s the
longest novel Lester Dent ever published, and one of the most famous. This
edition restores text cut from its original publication. Part of The Argosy
Library of classics. 271 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
When
Tigers Are Hunting: The Complete Adventures of Cordie, Soldier of Fortune,
Volume 1 by W. Wirt
The sagas of Jimmie Cordie and his crew
were among Argosy’s most popular series when it was brought to that magazine
during its early ’30s renaissance. Quite clearly an inspiration for the
creation of Doc Savage, this edition collects his first nine adventures. Part
of The Argosy Library of classics. 240 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95
hardcover
The
Swordsman of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline
Harry Thorne, explorer and swordsman,
had scarcely more than heard of the Red Planet, Mars—when an amazing thing
happened…. Otis Adelbert Kline is well-known as one of the best
fantasy/adventure contemporaries of Edgar Rice Burroughs. This edition is
sourced from the original magazine text and includes all of the original
illustrations. Part of The Argosy Library of classics. 237 pages / $19.95
softcover / $29.95 hardcover
The
Sherlock of Sageland: The Complete Tales of Sheriff Henry, Volume 1 by
W.C. Tuttle, introduction by Sai Shankar
Once voted Adventure Magazine’s most popular author, W.C. Tuttle introduced the world to
one of his longest-running, and most popular series characters, Henry Harrison
Conroy, in the pages of Argosy. Collected here are the first four
stories. Part of The Argosy Library of classics. 269 pages / $19.95 softcover /
$29.95 hardcover
Gone
North by Charles Alden
Seltzer
When Jim Fallon started for the Hudson
Bay country, he wasn’t sure whether he was on a man-hunt or
a wild goose chase—but he found his quest was fraught with real enough peril.
Among the best novels ever written by one of Argosy’s most popular authors. Part of The Argosy Library of
classics. 220 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
The
Masked Master Mind by George F. Worts
One of Argosy’s most popular authors pens this never-before reprinted novel
of a trail of crime that ran from sleepy Maple Hollow to Steel City. Part of
The Argosy Library of classics. 265 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
Balata
by Fred MacIsaac
Trees of living gold in the Amazon
jungles, guarded by alligators, poisoned darts and rival hunters—such was the
lodestone that drew an American expedition, and the unwilling Pete Holcomb….
Part of The Argosy Library of classics. 216 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95
hardcover
Bretwalda by Philip Ketchum
’Twas the mightiest weapon the eyes of man had ever beheld;
its mystic name meant “Ruler of Briton.” And from over the Northern Sea came a
Viking’s thrall—the only man in the world who could wield that
fearsome steel—to save good King Alfred and the homeland he scarce remembered.
Collecting—for the first time—all 12 stories of the Bretwalda saga. Part of The
Argosy Library of classics. 479 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
Draft
of Eternity by Victor Rousseau
A groundbreaking science fiction,
post-apocalyptic & time travel classic from the early days of The
All-Story by an underrated writer. Part of The Argosy Library of classics. 183
pages / $17.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
Four Corners, Volume 1 by Theodore Roscoe
Mystery runs rampant in the quiet,
upstate New York town of Four Corners…. Easily one of Roscoe’s best-written
series, Volume 1 collects the first half of this lost masterpiece of the pulps.
Part of The Argosy Library of classics. 201 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95
hardcover
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