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• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)
• The Crooked Lake Review (partial serial archives)
• Publishers Weekly (partial serial archives)
• The Saturday Review of Literature (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)
• The Bookseller (19th and early 20th century Chicago-based book trade journal) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer (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)

• Dime Novels: Bibliography, 1860-1928 (Brooklyn, NY: C. Bragin, c1938), by Charles Bragin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature, by Albert Johannsen (HTML at niu.edu)

• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (combined elecctronic edition, c2015), by William G. Contento (HTML at philsp.com)
• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)
• Science Fiction Bibliography ("vol. 1 no. 1" only issue published; Austin: Science Fiction Syndicate, 1935), by D. R. Welch (PDF with commentary at efanzines.com)

• The Standard Index of Short Stories (the published volume, covering 1900-1914, and unpublished typescript volumes, covering 1915-1933), by Francis James Hannigan
  • 1900-1914 volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 A-Glaciers volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 Glad-Ozaki volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 P-Z volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Illinois! Illinois! An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction (electronic edition, covering up to 1997), by Thomas L. Kilpatrick and Patsy-Rose Hoshiko (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Michigan in the Novel, 1816-2006: An Annotated Bibliography (second edition, revised and enlarged; 2013), by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico and Adjacent Lands, by Lawrence Clark Powell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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

• List of Books Printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800 (Hartford: Hartford Press, 1904), by J. Hammond Trumbull, ed. by Annie Eliot Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliography of Georgia Authors, 1949-1965 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1966), by John Wyatt Bonner (PDF at Georgia)

• PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at paulreuben.website)

• A Calendar of Confederate Papers, With a Biblography of Some Confederate Publications: Preliminary Report of the Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission, Prepared Under the Direction of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Richmond: Confederate Museum, 1908), by Douglas Southall Freeman and Confederate Memorial Literary Society Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Trial Bibliography of Colonial Virginia (2 volumes issued by the Virginia State Library; 1908-1910), by Clayton Torrence (page images at HathiTrust)

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