Best books -- California
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Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Best books- The Best Books: A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (About 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art and Literature, With the Dates of the First and Last Editions and the Price, Size, and Publisher's Name of Each Book (second edition, corrected; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; et al., 1901), by William Swan Sonnenschein
- List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature: Being the First Supplement to The Best Books (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by William Swan Sonnenschein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
- Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Fiction Section (second edition revised; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1931), by Phyllis Crawford, ed. by Corinne Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
- English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Pantology: or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, Proposing a Classification of All Its Branches and Illustrating Their History, Relations, Uses, and Objects (Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1841), by Roswell Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: A History, Together With the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ca. 1948), contrib. by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
- One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (page images at CMU)
- Immortal Memories, by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text)
- Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Choice (partial serial archives)
- Wilson Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
- The Wilson Bulletin for Librarians (full serial archives)
- The Wilson Bulletin (library journal) (full serial archives)
- Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
- Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Myths of Fiction: Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Edmund P. Cueva (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
- Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by Anne E. Boyd (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (Great Ideas program v1; Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959), by Mortimer J. Adler and Peter Wolff, contrib. by Robert Maynard Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Cary Nelson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
- Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Arnold Krupat (HTML at UC Press)
- A Booklist for Penal Institution Libraries: Books Published From July 1948 to June 1950 (New York: American Prison Association, ca. 1950), by American Correctional Association Committee on Institution Libraries, ed. by Edwin I. Friedman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 1000 Books for Prison Libraries, 1936-1939 (St. Paul: Dawson-Patterson, printers, 1939), by Mildred Louise Methven and American Correctional Association Committee on Institution Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
- Californische Skizzen (in German; Leipzig: Arnold, 1856), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (Gutenberg text)
- The Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural, Transportation, and Other Interests of California: Being a Report on that State for 1890 Made to S. G. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics (Washington: GPO, 1891), by Thomas J. Vivian and United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eldorado: or, California As Seen By a Pioneer, 1850-1900 (Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt and Co., 1900), by David Augustus Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Native Son, by Inez Haynes Gillmore (Gutenberg text)
- The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
- Scenes of Life in California, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (HTML at LOC)
- Sketches of California (1925 magazine edition), by Frederick A. Gay (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
- Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)
- Contributions to California Archaeology (partial serial archives)
- University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)
- California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- A Bibliography of the Spanish Press of California, 1833-1845 (San Francisco: The author, 1919), by Robert Ernest Cowan
- California and Californians (4 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1932), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
- California and Californians (5 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1926), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (San Francisco: History Co., 1891-1892), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
- Ginny Good (electronic edition; text and audio by the author), by Gerard Jones (HTML with commentary at everyonewhosanyone.com)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- California Mennonites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015), by Brian Froese (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
- Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920, by William C. Pond (HTML at LOC)
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