Talk:List of Stratemeyer Syndicate series

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The Stratemeyer Syndicate was a "book packager" (to use a modern term) established by Edward Stratemeyer in 1905. Through it single titles and especially series of juvenile books were produced and provided to a number of publishers. Edward Stratemeyer personally managed this in the first quarter century of its existence (1905-1930). Afterward it was run by his two daughters (Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Edna Stratemeyer Squier) for a dozen years (1930-1942) and by Harriet alone until her death (1930-1982).

It is, however, important to distinguish between Edward Stratemeyer's personal writings, which included 160 books, and those of the Syndicate. Books published under his own name and three personal pseudonyms, "Capt. Ralph Bonehill" and "Arthur M. Winfield" and "Edna Winfield", are his writings and should not appear on a Stratemeyer Syndicate list. This includes The Rover Boys (1899-1926), Putnam Hall, Soldiers of Fortune, Colonial, Pan-American, Dave Porter, Lakeport, Frontier, etc. series.

The first Stratemeyer Syndicate assignment was to Weldon J. Cobb in 1905 for the first volume in the Ralph series about Ralph Fairbanks, a young man working on a railroad. The book was published in 1906 by Mershon though most of the series was continued by Grosset & Dunlap. Almost immediately after Stratemeyer wrote to Cobb with the assignment, he also assigned the first book in the Motor Boys series to Howard R. Garis.

The Boys of Pluck series became the Boys of Business series so there is some overlap of titles and years.

The University series and U.S. Service series each have only a single volume published though subsequent volumes were advertised. The same is true for the White Ribbon Boys, only one book was published. There are some other single-title series not appearing on this list. That is, they were produced and published with the intention of there being other volumes but the sales of the first did not warrant continuation.

The Movie Boys are paperback reissues of the Moving Picture Boys series and the Motion Picture Chums series.


There are some series on the list which are not Stratemeyer Syndicate series.

Motion Picture Comrades series by "Elmer Tracey Barnes" and published by Saalfield. Listed in Johnson's Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and Series books in error. Definitely not Syndicate, however.

Keeline (talk) 23:51, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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