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• Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlett, Book Agent, by Ellis Parker Butler (Gutenberg text)

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Riceyman Steps (c1923), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• After the Storm, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)
• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911), by Frank Arthur Mumby, contrib. by W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Borzoi 1920: Being a Sort of Record of Five Years' Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, contrib. by Maksim Gorky, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, Clarence Day, Floyd Dell, Wilson Follett, A. P. Herbert, Joseph Hergesheimer, H. L. Mencken, Philip Moeller, George Jean Nathan, Sidney L. Nyburg, Eunice Tietjens, H. M. Tomlinson, Carl Van Vechten, Arthur Waley, Conrad Aiken, Pío Baroja, Mary Borden, Robert Bridges, Louis Couperus, W. H. Davies, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Graves, E. W. Howe, W. H. Hudson, Ezra Pound, John Collings Squire, and Elliot L. Grant Watson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, contrib. by Brooks Atkinson, Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, Thomas Beer, Edwin Björkman, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, A. E. Coppard, Mildred Cram, William Cummings, Walter De la Mare, Floyd Dell, J. S. Fletcher, Wilson Follett, John T. Frederick, David Garnett, Louis Golding, James Henle, Joseph Hergesheimer, Richard Hughes, Storm Jameson, Llewellyn Jones, D. H. Lawrence, Newman Levy, Haldane Macfall, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Ernest Newman, James Oppenheim, Roland Pertwee, Julia Peterkin, M. P. Shiel, Lee J. Smits, G. B. Stern, James Stevens, Ruth Suckow, Frank Swinnerton, Paul Bernard Thomas, Eunice Tietjens, Carl Van Doren, Carl Van Vechten, Henrie Waste, John V. A. Weaver, Hugh Wiley, Thyra Samter Winslow, Elinor Wylie, and Francis Brett Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Printing and Book Publishing in China (Book Developments #10; Karachi: Unesco Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific, 1985), by Wu Hengkang (multiple formats at archive.org)

• China's Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (in English, Chinese, Arabic, and other languages; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2019), by Maya Wang (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Information Omniverse (1994), ed. by Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008) (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF at ilab.org)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc. (London: H. Johnson; et al., 1839), by C. H. Timperley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1907), by Henry R. Plomer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, at Oxford U. Press, 1922), by Henry R. Plomer, ed. by Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile, contrib. by Harry Gidney Aldis, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, G. J. Gray, and R. B. McKerrow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A List, Based on the Registers of the Stationers' Company, of 837 London Publishers (Who Were By Trade Printers, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, etc., etc.) Between 1553 and 1640 A. D. (1890), by Edward Arber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)

• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Seine et les Quais: Promenades d'un Bibliophile (in French; Paris: H. Daragon, 1901), by Gabriel Hanotaux, illust. by Albert Robida
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)

• The Bookseller (UK book trade journal, 1858-) (partial serial archives)

• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
• The Book Trade in the United States in 1905 (typescript thesis; 1905), by Francis K. W. Drury
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Colonial Printer (New York: Grolier Club, 1931), by Lawrence C. Wroth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (c2012), ed. by Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Publisher's Confession (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Walter Hines Page
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Where and How to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), ed. by William B. McCourtie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Where to Sell Manuscripts: An Alphabetical and Classified List Arranged for the Writer's Convenience (New York: Hannis Jordan Co., 1915), by Hannis Jordan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing for Money: How to Write Saleable Manuscripts; Where and Way to Sell Manuscripts; Over Two Thousand Places to Sell Manuscripts (Chicago: International literary bureau, c1913), by John V. Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
• "1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts" (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1915), ed. by William Reno Kane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (fourth edition; Franklin, OH: Editor Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Complete Guide for All Writers Who are Seeking Avenues for the Publication of Original Manuscripts (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), ed. by James Knapp Reeve and Agnes M. Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Writing for the Magazines (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1916), by J. Berg Esenwein (multiple formats at archive.org)

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