Schoolboys' Pocket Library

The Schoolboys' Pocket Library was a Gerald Swan publication and first appeared in 1941. Most of the stories were by Edwy Searles Brooks and published using the pen names of Reginald Browne and Edward Thornton.

A number of issues are available for download courtesy of the Comic Book Plus website. Click on the PDF icon to read online or to download the file.

The information below is from The Nelson Lee Library and Bibliography of the Writings of Brooks, Edwy Searles by Robert C. Blythe, revised by Mark Caldicott in 1995 available here and Steve Holland's British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index available here.

Cover	Issue	Title	Author	Subject	Notes
	Issue 01 October 1941	The Rival Schools	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/124)
	Issue 02 November 1941	The Schoolboy Home Guard	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/102)
3	1942	The Ghost of Whitelands	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 2NS/60)
		The Shadow of Expulsion	E S Brooks		(R/P in Schoolboys Album 1959)
4	1942	Bill Smith of Westchester	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from Gem 1050)
5	1942	The Rotters of Greendale	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 2NS/59)
6	1942	The Prefect's Predicament	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from Gem 1054)
7	1942	The Trapped Schoolboys	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/127)
8	1942	The Schoolboy Racketeer	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from Gem 1008)
9	1943	Monkey Business at Whitelands	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/158)
10	1943	The Schoolboy with a Bankroll	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from Gem 1147)
11	1944	The Snowed-up Schoolboys	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/165)
12	1944	"Little Tough Guys" of Westchester	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from NLL 2NS/55)
13	1944	The Comical Coon of St Barts.	Burleigh Carew
14	1944	Schoolboys All At Sea	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/108)
15	1945	Osbourne Minnimus, Private Detective	P Martin
16	1946	The Aunt from Bar-Z	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 1NS/126)
17	1946	The New Boy at Westchester	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from Gem 1022)
18	1946	The Snoop of the Sixth	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	Based on unpub St. Frank's story "Cousin Calamity"
	Issue 19 1950	Smith Minor on the Moon	Philip Hardy
	Issue 20 1950	The Ghost Boat	Dick Ellison
	Issue 21 1950	The Borrowed Caravan	E. L. Peppercorn
	Issue 22 1950	Wally Davenport's Dizzy Blonde	Edward Thornton	Westchester story	(Rewritten from NLL 2NS/33)
	Issue 23 1950	Mr Fit-it of the Fourth	Reginald Browne	Whitelands story	(Rewritten from NLL 2NS/35)
	Issue 24 1950	Black Bird's Nest	L. J. Newman
25	1951	The Boy from East Side	Michael Kendrick
26	1952	Wizard of the Wicket	Anon