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• North American Negro Poets: A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944 (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945), by Dorothy Porter Wesley, contrib. by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preliminary List of Books and Pamphlets by Negro Authors, for Paris Exposition and Library of Congress (1900), by Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Howard Rambsy (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro Character in American Literature (Humanistic Studies v4 #1; Lawrence, KS: Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926), by John Herbert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
• The Negro in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction (Citadal Monograph Series #2; Charleston, SC: The Citadel, 1961), by Frank Durham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography (Washington: Library of Congress, 1970), by Dorothy Porter Wesley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Negro History and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (New York: American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro in America (Reading with a Purpose #68; Chicago; American Library Association, 1933), by Alain Locke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History (9 volumes; Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962), by New York Public Library, contrib. by Kathleen Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at virginia.edu)

• A Bibliography of Afro-American and Other American Minorities Represented in Library and Library-Related Listings (Bibliographical series #7, 1970), by Clara O. Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography (c2003), by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
• Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography (Troy, NY: Whitston Pub. Co., 1997), by Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)

• Negro History and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (New York: American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Books About Negro Life for Children (revised edition; New York: New York Public Library, 1963), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 List of Books for the Study of the Social Question: Being an Introduction to Catholic Social Literature (4th edition; 1915), by Catholic Central Verein of America, ed. by Louis F. Budenz (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)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viewpoints in Modern Drama: An Arrangement of Plays According to Their Essential Interest (Chicago: American library association, 1925), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)

• 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)
• Catena Librorum Tacendorum: Being Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books (London: Privately printed, 1885), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbidden Books: Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature, by an Old Bibliophile (attributed to Carrington in "Encyclopedia of Censorship"; Paris: For the author and his friends, 1902), by Charles Carrington (page images at Gallica)
• Index Librorum Prohibitoru: Being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books, by Pisanus Fraxi (London: Privately printed, 1877), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (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)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (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)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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