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Street & Smith or '''Street & Smith Publications, Inc.''' was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as Pulp Fiction and Dime Novels . Among their many titles was the Science Fiction Pulp Magazine Astounding Stories , acquired from Clayton Magazines in 1933, and retained until 1961. Street & Smith was founded in 1855 or 1858 depending on the source. The Street & Smith headquarters was at 79 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan . FOUNDING Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership when they bought the exisiting New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855 or 1858. Francis Scott Street died in 1883, and Smith continued to run the company. The company became a publisher of inexpensive novels and weekly magazines starting in the 1880's and continuing into the 1960's. DEMISE Street & Smith stopped publishing all their pulps in 1949, selling off several of their titles to Popular Publications . Condé Nast Publications later bought some of their magazine lines, and is the current owner of all the company's copyrights. AUTHORS ILLUSTRATORS
PUBLICATIONS ]] Adventure
Detective and mystery
Romance
Science fiction
Sports
Westerns
Young adult fiction
Comic Books
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