An Oliver Optic Checklist

This book provides a detailed listing of titles authored by William Taylor Adams under his own name, as well as under his various pseudonyms. It includes books, book-length serializations, and children's magazines edited by Adams. The main section lists the titles chronologically, providing information on the publisher, illustrators and engravers, and reprint publishers, in addition to story descriptions and review excerpts. Separate listings of series titles, series titles by reprint publishers, publisher names, and serial titles appearing in magazines or newspapers provide additional access to this material. The specialized appendixes include a directory of libraries and special collections throughout the United States with substantial holdings of Adams's work, a brief chronology of Adams and Lee & Shepard, and a listing of Adams's books that were not a part of any series. The secondary bibliography includes articles, books, and dissertations that contain biographical information on Adams, as well as commentary and criticism of his works. The illustrators and engravers index lists the titles in which each artist had creative input; the title index lists the titles and title variations of books, series, magazines, and serializations, and provides cross-references to pertinent entry numbers throughout the work.