CALIFORNIA STATE L IBRARY

NOV-DEC 2017

FOR THE LOVE OF WRITING

CALIFORNIA HISTORY SECTION DISPLAY

VISIT OUR CURRENT DISPLAY: STEAMBOATS, SCHOONERS, AND CRUISERS: HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA WATER TRAVEL

California History Room 900 N Street Room 200 9:30-4 Monday-Friday

INTRODUCTION

Do you love the written word? Have you always wanted to write a novel? Then check out our carefully curated selection of images, ephemera and books designed to get your creative juices flowing! If you want more in-formation about California fiction and authors, consider viewing our re-search guide to California Fiction or contacting us via the following meth-ods.

Contact us: Web-form: Ask us a Question Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov

Enjoy our display!

V ISUALS

[Bookplate]. (c1897.) N.S. : Charles F. Lummis.

Anthony & Baker SC. (N.D.)

[Envelope]. N.S. : J. M. Hutchings.

Bierce, Ambrose. (1911). Letter.

Ambrose Bierce letters, 1892-1911.

V ISUALS

Charles F. May. (c1918.) [Multo-Devo]. Lakeport: George E. Phillips.

California Invites the World 1915.

(1915). San Francisco.

V ISUALS

Grand Christmas Ball. (1869). N.S. : Kies & Castile

Dobbin, Hamilton Henry. (c1920.) Peacock Dancers.

Delmonico's. Farewell Banquet of Company 'B' Naval Battalion NGC. (August 17, 1895.) N.S.: Delmonico's.

V ISUALS

King, Thomas Starr. (1860.) [Marriage Certificate]. San Francisco.

Inaugural Ball at State Capitol Building, Sacramento, Cal.(1891.) N.S.: N.L.

Envelope. (1911). [Images of Women

Suffrage Movement] (35 Views).

V ISUALS

Portola Festival. (c1909.) San

Francisco: N.L.

Map of the State of California:

Compiled from the most recent

surveys and explorations and

comprising an accurate description of

the County Boundaries according to an

Act passed by the Legislature, April

25th, 1851. Also a complete

delineation of the Gold Region, post

office routes etc. (1851.) San

Francisco: B. F. Butler.

[La Porte School Students]. (c1910.)

V ISUALS

United State of America. Office of Price Administration. (1943.) War Ration Book No. 3. N.S.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Strohmeyer & Wyman, & Underwood & Underwood. (1895). Overlooking Nature's Grandest Scenery, Yosemite Valley, Cal., U.S.A.

Stellman, Louis J. (c1916.) Your Jack London.

BOOKS

Adams, A. (1999). The last lovely city : Stories (1st ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.

Allende, I., & Peden, M. (2005). Zorro : The novel. London: Fourth Estate.

Abbott, C. (2006). Frontiers past and future : Science fiction and the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

BOOKS

Bierce, A., & St. Pierre, B. (1987). The Devil's advocate : An Ambrose Bierce reader. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Austin, Hearle, Austin, Mary Hunter, & Hearle, Kevin. (2006). Essential Mary Austin : A selection of Mary Austin's best writing (California legacy book). Santa Clara, Calif. : Berkeley, Calif.: Santa Clara University ; Heyday Books.

Armour, R. (1959). Drug store days : My youth among the pills & potions (1st ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

BOOKS

Day, & Day, A. Grove. (1991). Great California stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Caraccio, D. (2014). Tiburcio! : Love, crime & rebellion in early California. North Charleston, SC: Createspace Independent Pub.

Bukowski, C. (1989). Hollywood : A novel. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.

BOOKS

Dobson, M. (2016). Beneath a golden veil : A novel. Grand Haven, MI: Waterfall Press.

Didion, J. (1979). The white album. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Dettmann, D. (2015). Courageous footsteps : A WWII novel. Denver, CO: Outskirts Press, Inc.

BOOKS

Haslam, & Haslam, Gerald W. (1999). Many Californias : Literature from the Golden State (2nd ed., Western literature series). Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Harris, G., & Cohen, H. (2012). Women trailblazers of California : Pioneers to the present. Charleston, SC: History Press.

Hamilton, I. (1990). The writers in Hollywood, 1915-1951 (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

BOOKS

Kondazian, K. (2013). The whip : A novel. East Brunswick, NJ: Hansen Publishing Group.

Jewett, G., & Jewett, Tom. (2007). It is one grand rush for gold. College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com Pub.

Isaac, R. (2015). The philanthropist : Our world in 2050. Morgan Hill: Bookstand Publishing.

BOOKS

Lepucki, E. (2014). California : A novel (First ed.). New York: Little, Brown & Company.

Laurence, F. (1998). Maverick women : 19th century women who kicked over the traces (1st ed.). Carpinteria, Calif.: Manifest Publications.

Kreyling, M. (2005). The novels of Ross Macdonald. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

Seither, M. (2013). The adventures of Pearley Monroe. Vista, CA: Sawmill Press.

BOOKS

Ryan, S. (2007). Locke 1928. Berkeley, Calif.: El León Literary Arts.

London, Haslam, & Haslam, Gerald W. (1999). Jack London's Golden State : Selected California writings. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books.

BOOKS

Sonnichsen, A. (1903). Deep sea vagabonds. New York: McClure, Phillips &.

Sinclair, U. (1906). The jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page.

Shaftel, G. (1943). Golden shore, a novel of the conquest of California. New York: Coward-McCann.

Twain, M., & Taper, B. (2003). Mark Twain's San Francisco (California legacy book). Santa Clara, Calif. : Berkeley, Calif.: Santa Clara University ; Heyday Books.

BOOKS

Thornton, L. (1999). Ghost woman (California fiction). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Steinbeck, J. (1969). Journal of a novel : The East of Eden letters. New York: Viking Press.

Zyzzyva. (1995, Summer). San Francisco: Zyzzyva Inc.

BOOKS

Watson, C. (1982). The novels of Jack London : A reappraisal. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.

Van der Veer, J. (2001). November grass (California legacy book). Santa Clara [Calif.] : Berkeley, CA: Santa Clara University ; Heyday Books.

BOOKS

Zyzzyva. (2009, Fall/Winter). San Francisco: Zyzzyva Inc.

OTHER V ISUALS B IBLIOGRAPHY

Angels Flight. (1953.) Los Angeles: N.L. Arion Press. (1999.) You are invited to a celebration of the

Arion Press edition of Invisible Cities. San Francisco: Arion Press.

[Button]. (N.D.) N.S.: N.L. California Invites the World 1915. (1915.) San Francisco:

N.L. City Lights. (1972.) Spring '72: City Lights Books. San Fran-

cisco: City Lights. Don the Beachcomber. (1941.) Hollywood: Don the Beach-

comber. Donaldson, Walter and Gus Kahn. (c1934.) M.G.M.'s great

musical extravaganza Hollywood Party. New York: Robbins Music Corporation.

Ex Libris Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. N.S.: N.L.. Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta / Official Pedestrian Day. (1937.)

San Francisco: N.L. Grand Association Football Match. (N.D.) Oakland: N.S. Maddux Air Lines Inc. Ford All-Metal Airplane Tours. Los

Angeles: Maddux Air Lines Inc.. Pellucidar. Pellucidar. Berkeley: Pellucidar. Pendragon Books. Pendragon Books. Oakland: Pendragon

Books. Sacramento street fair/All for fun - fun for all. [Sacramento]:

N.L.. Souvenir. San Francisco : Walter N. Brunt Co.. Tahoe-Sierra Dog Derby. (1931.) San Francisco: Walter N.

Brunt Co.. Yolla Bolly Press. (c1985.) True Bear Stories. Covelo, Calif.:

Yolla Bolly Press.

OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY

Benton, J. (1849). Voyage from Boston to San Francisco, Alt. Califor. in the ship Edward Everett : Left the wharf in Boston Thursday, January eleventh, A.D. 1849. Reached the anchorage ground at San Francisco; July 6th, 1849.

Brooker-Bowers, N. (1985). The Hollywood novel and other novels about film, 1912-1982 : An annotated bibliog-raphy (Garland reference library of the humanities. v. 463). New York: Garland Pub.

California State Library. (1926). Fiction in the State library having a California coloring.

Didion, J. (1978). Telling stories (Series of keepsakes ; no. 26). Berkeley]: Friends of the Bancroft Library, Uni-versity of California.

Faber, G., & Lasagna, M. (1990). Pasquala : The story of a California Indian girl (1st ed.). Alamo, Calif.: Magpie Publications.

Steinbeck, J. (1945). Cannery row. New York: The Viking press.

Twain, M. (1965). Roughing it (Rinehart editions. 61). New York: Rinehart.

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