Rural Carolinian
Title: Rural Carolinian
Category: Regional
Volume: 4
Issue: 7
Date: April 1873
Published in: Charleston, SC
Runner’s World
Title: Runner’s World
Category: Sports, Fitness, Running
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Date: January 2003
Published in: Emmaus, PA
Rubric
Title: Rubric
Category: Chapbook
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-3
Date: October 1901 – April 1902
Published in: Chicago, IL
Roycrofter
Title: Roycrofter
Category: Arts and Crafts, Elbert Hubbard
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: East Aurora, NY
Published in: June 1926
Roycroft Quarterly
Title: Roycraft Quarterly
Category: Chapbook, Stephen Crane
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: May 1896
Published in: East Auroroa, NY
Royal American Magazine
Title: Royal American Magazine
Category: 18th Century, Americana
Volume: 1
Issue: 6
Date: June 1774
Published in: Boston, MA
Issues of this title in wrappers, which contain advertising, are exceedingly rare and informative.
Royal American Magazine
Title: Royal American Magazine
Category: 18th Century, Americana
Volume: 1-2
Issue: V1 1 – 12; V2 1 – 2
Date: January 1774 – February 1775
Published in: Boston, MA
A scarce and desirable miscellany with the title page and eight of the twenty-two copperplates engraved by Paul Revere. It contains inflammatory articles in support of American patriotism and independence. Issues with blue printed wrappers are held at Clements Library, Ann Arbor Mi. The above comprise all the issues edited by Isaiah Thomas. Includes a supplement in wrappers.
Royal American Magazine
Title: Royal American Magazine
Category: 18th Century, Americana
Date: 1774
Published in: Boston, MA
Rover
Title: Rover: A Weekly Magazine of Tales, Poetry, and Engravings, Original and Selected
Category: Literary, Art
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-26
Date: January 1905
Published in: New York, NY
A monthly literary magazine, mostly reprinted, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence Lebree. Each issue is embellished with a fine engraving. Superseded by “New York Illustrated Magazine” (484).
Rover Boy Library
Title: Rover Boy Library
Category: Dime Novel
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: September 1904
Published in: New York, NY
“Link Rover, the Scapegrace; or, the Black Sheep of the Family.” By Gale Richards
Round Table
Title: Round Table
Category: Miscellany, Literary, Emily Dickinson
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-26
Date: December 1863 – June 1864
Published in: New York, NY
A weekly journal of opinion, founded by Charles and Henry Sweetser in response to the intellectual challenges of the civil war. It featured literary criticism, politics, society news and art. The issue for March 12, 1864 contains an anonymous poem of three stanzas entitled “My Sabbath”, one of a very few of Emily Dickinson’s works published in a magazine in her lifetime. The others are: one in “Indicator” (543), three in “Drum beat”, a daily, and one in “Literary World” of December 10 1878. (Thanks to Robert Lucas.)
Round Table
Title: Round Table
Category: Literary, Miscellany
Date: 1865
Published in: New York, NY
Specimen Issue
Round Table
Title: Round Table
Category: Literary
Volume: 2 New Series
Issue: 1
Date: September 1865
Published in: New York, NY
Round Table
Title: Round Table
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: August 1819
Published in: Hartford, CT
Published by a literary club ‘The Knights of the Round Table’ and edited by ‘George Bickerstaff and others’. Edgar A60.
Rounce
Title: Rounce
Category: Miscellany
Volume: 1-3
Issue: 1-14
Date: July 1878 – September 1879
Published in: Iowa
An obscure miscellany, edited by Ralph Van Vechton.
Rough-Hewer
Title: Rough-Hewer
Category: Politics, Campaign
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-39
Date: February – December 1840
Published in: Albany, NY
A weekly, published in support of the 1840 campaign of Martin Van Buren.
Rough Rider
Title: Rough Rider
Category: Literary
Volume: 2
Issue: 7
Date: April 1901
Published in: Butte, MT
A scarce well-produced local literary magazine from Montana.
Rosie
Title: Rosie
Category: Celebrity
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: May 2001
Published in: New York, NY
The magazine of comedian Rosie O’Donnell
Rosebud
Title: Rosebud
Category: Religion
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: March 1832 – February 1833
Published in: Lowell, MA
Rooseveltian
Title: Rooseveltian
Category: Humor, Politics
Volume: 1
Issue: 8
Date: October 1919
Published in: Washington D.C.
A rare title devoted to the political ideology of Theodore Roosevelt
Romanic Review
Title: Romanic Review
Category: Education
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January/ March 1910
Published in: New York, NY
A Journal devoted to the study of romance languages.
Romance Time
Title: Romance Time
Category: Romance
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: June 1952
Published in: New York, NY
Romance Stories
Title: Romance Stories
Category: Romance
Volume: 1
Issue: 15
Date: April 1935
Published in: Louisville, KY
Rolling Stone
Title: Rolling Stone
Category: Pop Culture, Music
Volume: 1
Issue: 335
Date: January 1981
Published in: New York, NY
The famous and highly collectible John Lennon issue, published shortly after his death.
Rolling Stone
Title: Rolling Stone
Category: Music, Pop Culture
Volume:
Issue: 1-230
Date: November 1967-January 1977
Published in: San Francisco, CA
Roller Jam Magazine
Title: Roller Jam Magazine
Category: Sports
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: December 1999
Published in: Orlando, FL
The official magazine of World Skating League.
Rogue
Title: Rogue; For Men
Category: Men’s, Humor, Marilyn Monroe
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: December 1955
Published in: Evanston, IL
A higher quality men’s magazine. This issue features a Marilyn Monroe photo shoot
Rocky Mountain Druggist
Title: Rocky Mountain Druggist
Category: Pharmacy
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: April 1888
Published in: Denver, CO
A successful monthly, published in Colorado to meet the need for a journal devoted to pharmacy and the drug trade in the west.
Rockefeller Center Magazine
Title: Rockefeller Center Magazine
Category: NYC
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: February 1938
Published in: New York, NY
A regional magazine from New York city with ads, photographs, and local news.
Rochester Monthly Miscellany
Title: Rochester Monthly Miscellany
Category: Regional, Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1881
Published in: Rochester, NY
An ambitious but short-lived illustrated monthly, notable for its considerable local advertising, especially the graphic mouthwash ad on the back cover.
Robinsons Magazine
Title: Robinson’s Magazine
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-26
Date: July – December 1818
Published in: Baltimore, MD
A very scarce reprint journal of British publications. The second volume published “The Vampyre” by Polidori.
Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country
Title: Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1841
Published in: Boston, MA
A well–produced, well-illustrated miscellany.
Roberts Magazine
Title: Robert’s Magazine
Category: Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-24
Date: January 1841 – January 1842
Published in: Boston, MA
Robert Merrys Museum July 1843
Title: Robert Merry’s Museum
Category: Literary, Art, Juvenile
Volume: 6
Issue: 31 (no 1)
Date: July 1843
Published in: Boston, MA
Robert Merrys Museum
Title: Robert Merry’s Museum
Category: Juvenile
Volume: 1-2
Issue: 1-6
Date: February- December 1841
Published in: New York, NY
A long-running juvenile magazine illustrated with engravings, initially edited by Samuel Goodrich, reflecting his philosophy of realistic, educationally beneficial works with an emphasis on science and nature studies. it continued as “Merry’s Museum and Parley’s Magazine” (636) and was edited, starting in January 1868, by Louisa May Alcott, who was also a frequent contributor.
Road and Track
Title: Road and Track
Category: Automotive
Volume: 1
Issue: 1, 3
Date: June 1947 – March 1950
Published in: Hempstead, NY
Early issues were published irregularly and are quite scarce. A facsimile of v. 1, no. 1 was issued because of the scarcity of the original. It is on similar paper but of inferior printing quality, smaller in size (8×11), and is identified as a reprint on the title page.
Riverside Magazine for Young People
Title: Riverside Magazine for Young People
Category: Literary, Juvenile
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1867
Published in: New York, NY
Riverside Magazine for Young People
Title: Riverside Magazine for Young People
Category: Juvenile
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-12
Date: January- December 1867
Published in: New York, NY
Riverside Library
Title: Riverside Library
Category: Dime Novel
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date:
Published in: New York, NY
Rising Tide
Title: Rising Tide
Category: Military, WW2
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Published in: New York, NY
Ringmaster
Title: Ringmaster. The World in Caricature
Category: Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: May 1936
Published in: Mt. Morris, IL
Ring
Title: Ring
Category: Sports, Boxing
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: February 1922
Published in: New York, NY
Ring
Title: Ring
Category: United We Stand Volume: 21
Issue: 6
Date: July 1942
Published in: Springfield, MA
Rights Reviews
Title: Rights Reviews
Category: African-American
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: December 1964
Published in: New York, NY
Ridgeway’s
Title: Ridgeway’s
Category: Politics
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: October 1996
Published in: New York, NY
Richmond Eclectic. A Monthly Magazine of Foreign Literature, Religious and Secular
Title: Richmond Eclectic. A Monthly Magazine of Foreign Literature, Religious and Secular
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: November 1866
Published in: Richmond, VA
Rhythmus
Title: Rhythmus
Category: Literary, Poetry
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1923
Published in: New York, NY
Rhody Photo News
Title: Rhody Photo News
Category: Regional, Rhode Island
Date: February 1953
Published in: Providence, RI
Rhodora
Title: Rhodora
Category: Nature, Botany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1899
Published in: Providence, RI
Rhode Island Literary Repository, a Monthly Magazine
Title: Rhode Island Literary Repository, a Monthly Magazine
Category: Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: April 1814
Published in: Providence, RI
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