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Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1971.. xvi,521pp. Thick octavo. Gilt buckram. First edition of this essential annotated reference to over 2700 works of fiction related to California. Bookplate, top edge faintly foxed, else near fine in dust jacket (crease to front flap).

Georgetown, California: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1971 First edition. One of 500 copies. Quite scarce. xvi, 521pp. Facsimiles, locale index, subject index. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket (top edge of jacket slightly rough). The first comprehensive, annotated bibliography of California fiction. Includes novels, novellas, and short stories that have a California setting, not necessarily by California writers. Includes some 2,500 entries, covering all phases of the California experience. Most entries are annotated and describe the plot or theme of the novel, and the place or setting. The bibliography lists works by obscure writers, obscurely published, as well as the serious fiction of Frank Norris, Gertrude Atherton, Jack London, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, Dashiell Hammett, James C. Cain, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Millar, Jessamyn West, and many others. The standard bibliography on the subject..