Excerpt from North Carolina Fiction, 1734-1957: An Annotated Bibliography Shortly after the publication of North Carolina Authors: A Selective Handbook (chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, the Joint Committee of the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Library Association was authorized to continue its studies in state literature and bibliography. The present volume is the result Of three years of cooperative research, to which staff members of public and institutional libraries, teachers of English, and private col lectors have generously contributed. The guiding purpose has been to make readily available to reference librarians, teachers, students, local historians, antiquarians, writers, and other interested users a substantial quantity of pertinent information about every known book of fiction with an ascertainable North Carolina setting published during the past 223 years. NO part Of this purpose is to recommend for profitable or enjoyable reading a random selection Of such a two-century attic accumulation. Indexed to facilitate finding and annotated for purposeful selection and location, the book is only a descriptive catalogue, one function Of which is to prevent waste of time in examining hundreds of useless items for fear of overlooking a few of genuine worth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.