I really, really don't need to start another collection...BUT I am prepared to give room on the blog for a listing of bibliographical material related to the 'Old Boys Book' genre. These were text based rather than comic strip based so I've never collected the original material or the many fanzines that the genre spawned.
I don't pretend that this is any way a complete listing, it's just stuff I've come across recently on eBay and you've got to start somewhere. I'll add more titles as I go along. For this update it's some Frank Richards material...
UPDATE: all updates highlighted in red
Nelson Lee library - 7 pages, dated July 1961
Letters to a friend from Frank Richards (published by Museum Press)
one day I'll have enough time to look properly at all the book published by Museum Press. But not today.
The letters of Frank RichardsSexton Blake catalogue (1966) - according to this source
supplement to the Sexton Blake catalogue (1971) - according to this source
the same Wikipedia page also lists a 2nd edition of the catalogue as having been published in 1993
The Nelson Lee library - Edwy Searles Brooks
the seller notes that this is 116 pages long and minutely detailed
This (below) look like the first edition of the above book. Described thus...
Published by the Old Boys' Book Club with an introduction by Bob Blythe, who seemed to run the club at the time, or at least heavily involved. The guide has orange card covers and approx 60 pages inside, packed with information on Nelson Lee.
90 glorious years
A celebration of 90 years of the GEM and the MAGNET and a tribute to the life & works of Eric Fayne, the editor of Story Paper Collectors' Digest from 1959 to 1987. A great, profusely illustrated B&W 200 page book
John Nix Pentelow, 1872-1931
a relatively scarce fanzine for the Magnet Library. Printed in 1976 by the 'Cambridge Old Boys Book Club' and focusses on the life of John Nix Pentelow. Contributions from Jack Overhill, Bill Lofts, Deryck Harvey, Danny Posner, W.J.A. Hubbard and W.H. Broster
