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Title: Demian Katz gamebook collection
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 294
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
Multiple languages
Physical Description:
57 linear feet
(57 cartons)
Creator:
Katz, Demian
Date (inclusive): 1948-2013
Abstract: This collection contains more than 2500 print gamebooks (primarily paperback) along with smaller number of related works in
other media, including magazines, comics, audio recordings, films, and software.
Language of Material: Materials in this collection are in Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.
The collection is open for research. The collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Demian Katz gamebook collection, Mss 294. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Demian Katz, 2012.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains over 2500 gamebooks (primarily paperback) along with works in other media, including magazines, software,
films, comics, and audio recordings. A large portion of the gamebooks are in English, with many other languages represented
in addition. The collection covers interactive books (branching-plot novels), solitaire role-playing with rule sets, and multi-player
combat books.
Materials in this collection have been arranged by language and publisher series. In addition to publisher series, the English
language gamebooks have been arranged by level of complexity: simple, intermediate, advanced, and other. The physical arrangment
of this collection does not necessarily match its intellectual arrangement in the finding guide. Multiple copies of the same
title may be listed more than once if filed in different boxes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Plot-your-own stories
Choose-your-own-stories