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• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991 (c1992), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• First Editions in American Juvenilia, and Problems in Their Identification (Chicago: Normandie House, c1939), by Gustav Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

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

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• The Pearl Story Book: A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected (1850), by Mrs. Colman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 2000), by Edward Connery Lathem (illustrated HTML and PDF at Dartmouth)

• Collection Guides (finding aids listings that encompass and supersede Hoyle's 1985 published "checklist"), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections, contrib. by Karen Nelson Hoyle (HTML at Minnesota; scroll down page to see alphabetical list of finding aids)

• Collection Guides (finding aids listings that encompass and supersede Hoyle's 1985 published "checklist"), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections, contrib. by Karen Nelson Hoyle (HTML at Minnesota; scroll down page to see alphabetical list of finding aids)

• The Nursery, ed. by Fanny P. Seaverns (partial serial archives)

• A Description and an Analysis of The Bibliography of American Literature (Philadelphia: Pennslyvania Historical Survey, 1941), by Edward Hayes O'Neill and Pennsylvania Historical Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States Catalog: Books in Print 1902 (second edition of this reference work; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1903), ed. by Marion E. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country, With the Publishers' and Authors' Names and Prices Arranged in Classes for Quick and Convenient Reference (with an article on copyright by Washburn; Claremont, NH: S. Ide, 1847), ed. by Alexander Vietts Blake, contrib. by Peter T. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at paulreuben.website)
• A Nationwide Inventory of American Imprints Under WPA Auspices: An Address at the 1938 Conference at Kansas City of the American Library Association, Section on Archives and Libraries (Chicago: Privately printed, 1938), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by A. F. Kuhlman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William P. Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)

• Catalog of Copyright Entries, by Library of Congress Copyright Office (partial serial archives)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at CLIR)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at CLIR)

• The Saturday Review of Literature (US, 1924-1986) (partial serial archives)
• Kirkus Reviews (partial serial archives)
• Cumulative Book Index, by H.W. Wilson Company (partial serial archives)
• The United States Quarterly Book Review (partial serial archives)
• The United States Quarterly Book List (full serial archives)
• Publishers Weekly (partial serial archives)
• The Crooked Lake Review (partial serial archives)
• The Literary Digest International Book Review (full serial archives)
• The American Bookseller (partial serial archives)
• American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Book Notes (New York: Siegel-Cooper, 1898-1900) (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• Bulletin From Virginia Kirkus' Service, ed. by Virginia Kirkus (partial serial archives)
• The Bookseller (19th and early 20th century Chicago-based book trade journal) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer (partial serial archives)
• Brentano's Book Chat (partial serial archives)
• The Newsdealer (San Francisco, 1890s) (partial serial archives)
• Trübner's Record (full serial archives)

• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, ed. by John W. Cousin (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (London: J.M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910), by John W. Cousin (Gutenberg text)

• First Editions in American Juvenilia, and Problems in Their Identification (Chicago: Normandie House, c1939), by Gustav Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• American First Editions: Bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of 146 American Authors (revised and enlarged edition; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1932), by Merle Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• James Thurber: A Bibliography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by Edwin T. Bowden (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• First Editions in American Juvenilia, and Problems in Their Identification (Chicago: Normandie House, c1939), by Gustav Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bibliographia Catholica Americana, a List of Works Written by Catholic Authors, Part I: From 1784 to 1820 Inclusive (no further parts published; New York: Catholic Publication House, 1872), by Joseph M. Finotti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

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