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Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

Title: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Category: Literary, Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: June 1850
Published in: New York, NY
A major literary and miscellaneous magazine, incorporating both American and reprinted (often pirated) foreign literature.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

Title: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Category: Literary, Herman Melville, Mark Twain
Volume: 3
Issue: 5 (No 17)
Date: October 1851
Published in: New York, NY
This issue contains “The Town-ho’s Story,” the first appearance in print of any part of “Moby Dick.”

Great Republic Monthly

Title: Great Republic Monthly
Category: Literary, US
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1859
Published in: New York, NY
A national magazine devoted to the best interests of American literature, wholly original and impersonal, and in no way sectional or sectarian.

Gray Goose

Title: Gray Goose Category: Literary Volume: 21 Issue: 5 Date: November 1908 Published in: New York, NY A scarce title with notable illustration. The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven...

Graham’s Magazine

This Issue: Title: Graham’s Magazine Category: Literary, Edgar Allan Poe Value: $400 Volume: 20 Issue: 193 Local ID: 1773 Date: January 1842 Published in: Philadelphia, PA  First appearance of “An Appendix of Autographs” by Poe. Also features...

Graham’s Magazine

Title: Graham’s Magazine
Category: Literary, Edgar Allan Poe
Volume: 18
Issue: 185
Date: May 1841
Published in: New York, NY
First appearance of “A Descent into the Maelstrom” by Poe.

Graham’s Magazine

Title: Graham’s Magazine
Category: Literary, Edgar Allan Poe
Volume: 18-20
Issue: 1-6
Date: July 1841 – June 1842
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
The most important and widely circulated magazine of its era.

Graham’s Magazine

Title: Graham’s Magazine
Category: Literary
Volume:
Issue:
Date: 1846 – 1853
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
Various examples of illustrated wrappers.

Good Will Library

Title: Good Will Library
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date:
Published in: Chicago, IL
The contents are entirely devoted to “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” by T. S. Arthur.

Good Times

Title: Good Times
Category: Religion, Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: August 1877
Published in: Boston, MA
A rare religious and temperance monthly edited by Mrs. M.B.C. Slade.

Good News

Title: Good News
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: May 1890
Published in: New York, NY
A weekly literary magazine geared toward a younger audience.

Golden Book

Title: Golden Book
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1925
Published in: New York, NY
A magazine “of fiction and true stories that will live.”

Golden Argosy

Title: Golden Argosy
Category: Literary, Juvenile
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: December 1882
Published in: New York, NY
The first issue of Story Paper that evolved into a highly important pulp magazine.

Golden Age

Title: Golden Age
Category: News, Religion, Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: March 1872
Published in: New York, NY
A serious attempt at a ‘weekly journal devoted to the free discussion of all living questions of church, state, society, art, literature and moral reform,’ edited and published by Theodore Tilton.

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Title: Godey’s Lady’s Book
Category: Literary, Edgar Allan Poe
Volume: 32-33
Issue: 1-12
Date: January – December 1846
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
Contains ten of Poe’s first printings.

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Title: Godey’s Lady’s Book
Category: Literary, Edgar Allan Poe
Volume: 32
Issue: 4
Date: April 1846
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
This issue contains original literary criticism by Edgar Allan Poe, prominently attributed on the front wrapper below the name of the editor, Sarah J. Hal (sic).

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Issue: 1-12
Date: January – December 1844
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
A very successful, widely circulated ladies’ miscellany, illustrated with engravings and hand-colored fashion plates, most notable for the long-standing editorship of Sarah J. Hale.

Godey’s Lady’s Book

This Issue: Title: Godey’s Lady’s Book Category: Literary, Poe Value: $800 Volume: 8 Issue: 1-6 Local ID: 1735 Date: January – June 1834 Published in: Philadelphia, PA Contains the first printing of “The Visionary” by Poe....

Glebe

Title: Glebe
Category: Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: September 1913
Published in: Ridgefield, NJ
An important little magazine, which pioneered experimental writing.