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• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• Wilson Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The Wilson Bulletin for Librarians (full serial archives)
• The Wilson Bulletin (library journal) (full serial archives)

• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)

• U. S. National Bibliography and the Copyright Law: An Historical Study (New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1960), by Joseph William Rogers, contrib. by Verner W. Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette (partial serial archives)
• Wilson Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The Wilson Bulletin for Librarians (full serial archives)
• The Wilson Bulletin (library journal) (full serial archives)

• Pioneer Imprints From Fifty States (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), by Roger J. Trienens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Nationwide Search for Early American Printing: A Talk Over Station WDAF (Kansas City) Tuesday, June 14th, 1938 at 4:45 P.M. (1938), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Irene Gentry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Check List of Alabama Imprints, 1807-1870 (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1946), by Rhoda Coleman Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Beginnings of Printing in Arizona, With an Account of the Early Newspapers and a Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides Printed in Arizona, 1860-1875 (Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arkansas Imprints, 1821-1876 (New York: Pub. for the Bibliographical Society of America by R. R. Bowker Co., 1947), ed. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Spanish Press of California, 1833-1845 (with Historic Spots in Orange County; Orange County Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1949), by Robert Ernest Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliography of the Spanish Press of California, 1833-1845 (San Francisco: The author, 1919), by Robert Ernest Cowan
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Spanish Press of California (1833-1844) (reprinted from the California Historic-Genealogical Society Publication III; ca. 1902), by Robert Ernest Cowan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• California Imprints, August 1846-June 1851 (1922), by Henry R. Wagner
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Colorado Imprints Not Listed in the Bibliography on "Early Printing in Colorado" (Evanston: Privately printed, 1943), by Douglas C. McMurtrie and Albert H. Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Preliminary Short-Title Check List of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed in Florida, 1784-1860 (typescript; Jacksonville: Florida State Office of the Historical Records Survey, 1937), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• James Johnston, Georgia's First Printer (Savannah: Pigeonhole Press, 1956), by Alexander A. Lawrence, contrib. by Ray Dilley (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check List of Idaho Imprints, 1839-1890 (American Imprints Inventory #13; 1940), by Historical Records Survey (U.S.), ed. by Don Farran (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check List of Iowa Imprints, 1838-1860, in Supplement to Those Recorded by Alexander Moffit in the Iowa Journal of History and Politics for January, 1938 (American Imprints Inventory #15; Chicago: WPA Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), by Historical Records Survey (U.S.) (at babel.hathitrust.org)

• Check List of Kansas Imprints, 1854-1876 (American Imprints Inventory #10, and supplement; 1939-1958), by Historical Records Survey (U.S.), contrib. by Lorene Anderson Hawley and Alan W. Farley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Supplemental Check List of Kentucky Imprints, 1788-1820 (American Imprints Inventory #25; 1942), ed. by John Wilson Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Check List of Kentucky Imprints, 1787-1810 (American Imprints Inventory #5; 1939), by Douglas C. McMurtrie and Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Check List of Kentucky Imprints, 1811-1820; With Notes in Supplement to the Check List of 1787-1810 Imprints (American Imprints Inventory #6; 1939), by Douglas C. McMurtrie and Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bradford, Esq.: Pioneer Kentucky Printer and Historian (Lexington, KY: Winburn Press, 1950), by J. Winston Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Louisiana Imprints, 1768-1810: In Supplement to the Bibliography in "Early Printing in New Orleans" (Heartman's Historical Series #62; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1942), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preliminary Check List of Michigan Imprints, 1796-1850 (American Imprints Inventory #52; 1942), by Michigan Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Check List of Minnesota Imprints, 1849-1865 (American Imprints Inventory #2; Chicago: Historical Records Survey, 1938), by Mamie R. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Bibliography of Mississippi Imprints, 1798-1830 (Heartman's Historical Series #69; Beauvoir Community, MS: The Book Farm, 1945), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Preliminary Check List of Missouri Imprints, 1808-1850 (American Imprints Inventory #1, originally published 1937; reprinted New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1964), by Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
  • page images at uky.edu
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• Montana Imprints, 1864-1880: Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed Within the Area Now Constituting the State of Montana, by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check List of Nebraska Non-Documentary Imprints, 1847-1876 (preliminary edition of American Imprints Inventory #26; 1942), by Nebraska Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Check List of New Mexico Imprints and Publications, 1784-1876: Imprints, 1834-1876; Publications, 1784-1876 (Inventory of American Imprints #25, typescript; Detroit: Michigan Historical Records Survey 1942), by Illinois Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer Printing in North Carolina (reprinted from the National Printer Journalist, 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Preliminary Check List of North Dakota Imprints, 1874-1890: Issued as Manuscript for Checking and Revision (1943), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dakota Imprints, 1858-1889 (New York: Pub. for the Bibliographical Society of America by R. R. Bowker Co., 1947), ed. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check List of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1820 (American Imprints Inventory #17; 1941), by Historical Records Survey (Ohio) (page images at uky.edu)

• Oregon Imprints, 1847-1870 (University of Oregon Library Studies in Bibliography #2; Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1950), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dakota Imprints, 1858-1889 (New York: Pub. for the Bibliographical Society of America by R. R. Bowker Co., 1947), ed. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check List of Tennessee Imprints, 1793-1840 (typescript; American Imprints Inventory #32; 1942), by Illinois Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer Printing in Texas (reprinted with additions from the Southwestern Historical Quaterly, 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bibliography of Texas, 1795-1845 (3 parts in 5 volumes; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955-1960), by Thomas W. Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints (754 volumes; London: Mansell, 1968-1981) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to Dutch Manuscripts Relating to New Netherland in United States Repositories (editions published in 1978 and 2012), by Charles T. Gehring (PDF files at newnetherland institute.org)
• American Literary Manuscripts: A Checklist of Holdings in Academic, Historical, and Public Libraries in the United States (Austin: University of Texas Press, c1960), by Modern Language Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)

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