Does someone knows if there an inventory of CA Smith's Books was ever done ? What were his favorites books ? Was there a public library in Auburn, and was CAS going there ? We know that he was taught with the Oxford Encyclopedia and its spanish equivalent, but what were his parent's books he has been reading as kid ? Where are thoses books now ?
Many thanks...

this page:
Associates and Influences of Clark Ashton Smith
has a list of books he is known to have read.

Boyd - I just went to your site on books and friends as suggested
above - You need to add my name to the "friends" list, since I
knew him probably better than anyone in his last years - Carol came
to me first after his death.
Also, books he is known to have read:
Robert Graves, "The White Goddess"
John McDonald, "Lilith" and several others
works of Dylan Thomas
Milton, Spenser, Jonson -
Samuel Johnson (loved the quote: "truth sir, is a cow that will yield
them no more milk, so they have gone to milk the bull)
Pepys

I could name many more - the above I know influenced him as we discussed
them in considerable detail - he, of course, had read them during his
excursion from A to Z in the Carnegie in Auburn as a very young man.