John Ahouse - Upton Sinclair Collection at CSUDH

John Ahouse-Upton Sinclair Collection, (1895-2014). This collection consists of materials by and about American writer and political figure Upton Sinclair collected by bibliographer John Ahouse, author of Upton Sinclair, A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography. The collection comprises several types of materials, including:

• Publications authored by Sinclair: books, pamphlets, newspaper and journal articles, circular letters, and manuscripts, as well a few personal letters.
• Publications edited by Sinclair: A Monthly Magazine, EPIC Newspapers, and the Upton Sinclair Quarterly Newsletters.
• Research material for Ahouse's book: subject files, academic or popular articles about Sinclair, audio and video recordings, and correspondence with and manuscripts by Sinclair biographers and scholars.
• Sinclair novels and books: approximately 400 copies of Sinclair works, comprising first- and later editions of novels and non-fiction, reprints, translations, and some graphic versions. 

The books of the John Ahouse - Upton Sinclair Collection include all the fiction and nonfiction books Sinclair wrote in his long career. Most of these were collected by John Ahouse while he was compiling Upton Sinclair, A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography. These books have been removed from the rest of the collection and placed in the Special Collections Rare Book Room while they are being cataloged. They include:

• Most first editions of the works, as well as multiple later editions
• Foreign printings
• Works in translation

Archives & Special Collections is continuing Ahouse's work by searching for and adding editions of Sinclair's books that were previously not recorded or could not be located. The 360-plus books of the collection currently cataloged are searchable in the University Library Online Catalog, using John Ahouse / Upton Sinclair Collection as the search term.