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• Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1955), by Anne Lyon Haight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places (first edition; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1935), by Anne Lyon Haight, contrib. by Elisabeth Luce Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum (primarily in Latin, with book titles in their original languages; Turin: Typ. Pontifica et Archiepiscopalis, 1892), by Catholic Church (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Verboden Boeken, Geschriften, Couranten, enz. in de 18e Eeuw: Eene Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis der Haagsche Censuur (2 parts, in Dutch; Haarlem: W. C. de Graaff, 1881-1882), by A.J. Servaas van Rooijen
  • both parts: multiple formats at Google
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust
• The Judging of Jurgen (Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1920), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Exhibited in an Account of Her Damnatory Catalogues or Indexes, Both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, With Various Illustrative Extracts, Anecdotes, and Remarks (second edition; London: J. Duncan, 1830), by Joseph Mendham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (second edition; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder; et al., 1909), by Francis S. Betten
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (fifth edition; St. Louis, MO, and London: B. Herder, 1920), by Francis S. Betten (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, by Blackie & Son (partial serial archives)

• Canadian Children's Books, 1799-1939, in the Special Collections and University Archives Division, The University of British Columbia Library: A Bibliographical Catalogue, ed. by Sheila A. Egoff (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (partial serial archives)
• The Horn Book (partial serial archives)
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials (full serial archives)
• The Elementary English Review (partial serial archives)

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991 (c1992), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991 (c1992), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

• A Brief History of Boys' Journals, With Interesting facts About the Writers of Boys' Stories (1913), by Ralph Rollington (illustrated HTML at archive.org)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

• Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (second edition, 1926, with supplements from 1937 and 1952), by Mary Huse Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library and Bibliographic Activities in the Caribbean (8th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials working paper #10; 1963), by Enid M. Baa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The National Library of Wales Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• The Dolphin (American Catholic review, 1901-1905) (full serial archives)

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