BRITISH FANTASY LIBRARY

This page is devoted to the publications of the British Fantasy Library of the late 1940s, which arose from the ashes of the British Fantasy Society. The final issue of the BFS BULLETIN was dated November 1946, the society's last gasp. With the dissolution of the BFS, Ron Holmes and Nigel Lindsay, who at this point made up about half of the remaining active membership, combined its library and chain letter to form a new organisation. It was only ever a stopgap, and not the national organisation most fans wanted, but it was a significant link between the BFS and the second incarnation of Ken Slater's OPERATION FANTAST, which would play an important role in getting postwar UK fandom up and running.

These listings are taken directly from the British Fanzine Bibliography.

...................... Rob Hansen.

BRITISH FANTASY LIBRARY CATALOGUE: D.R. Smith (Nuneaton) & Ron Holmes (Liverpool)
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12 page 		ed.DS
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BRITISH FANTASY LIBRARY HANDBOOK: Ron Holmes (Liverpool)
(-) Win/47 16 page
BOOKLIST: Ron Holmes (Liverpool) & John Gunn (Nottingham).
Contains more news and notes than booklists.
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* b/w OPERATION FANTAST 1
**d/w SLANT 1
***d/w SCIENCE FANTASY NEWS 3
No information on earlier or possible later issues.

OPERATION FANTAST (First Series): Ken Slater (Cambs).
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*Supplement
**Whitconzine

Relaunched in July 1949, no longer connected with BFL.

DIRECTORY OF ANGLOFANDOM: J.Michael Rosenblum (for BFS), John Gunn (for BFL).
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?/48 		24 page *
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* d/w FAPA

THE BRITISH FANTASY LIBRARY: John Gunn (Nottingham)
(-) Dec/49 2 page
no information on further issues, if any

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