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• American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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• 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 list of early American imprints, 1640-1700 (Press of C. Hamilton, 1896), by American Antiquarian Society. Library and Nathaniel Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of early American imprints belonging to the library of the Massachusetts historical society. (J. Wilson and son, 1895), by Samuel A. Green and Massachusetts Historical Society Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692 : a history of the first printing press established in English America, together with a bibliographical ist of the issues of the Press (Dodd, Mead, 1905), by Robert F. Roden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholic authorship in the American colonies before 1784 ([Washington, 1917), by William Stetson Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of books received by the American Antiquarian Society from the sale of the first part of the Brinley Library : to which is added a catalogue of the Mather publications previously in the society's library. (Press of C. Hamilton, 1879), by Nathaniel Paine, George Brinley, and American Antiquarian Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers. (B. Franklin, 1964), by Isaiah Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A descriptive catalogue of the Massachusetts exhibit of colonial books at the the Jamestown tercentennial exposition. (Privately printed, 1907), by George Emery Littlefield and Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers. (Burt Franklin, 1874), by Isaiah Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of books received by the American Antiquarian Society from the sale of the first part of the Brinley library; to which is added a catalogue of the Mather publications previously in the society's library. (Press of C. Hamilton, 1879), by Nathaniel Paine, George Brinley, and American Antiquarian Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1607-1907. A descriptive catalogue of the Massachusetts exhibit of colonial books at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition. (Priv. print, 1907), by Massachusetts. Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second supplementary list of American imprints. (J. Wilson and Son, 1899), by Samuel A. Green and Massachusetts Historical Society Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• A third supplementary list of early American imprints. (J. Wilson and Son, 1903), by Samuel A. Green and Massachusetts Historical Society Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early American Poetry, 1610-1820: A List of Works in the New York Public Library (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1917), by John C. Frank
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• The first century of New England verse (The Society, 1944), by Harold Stein Jantz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial poets, 1609-1760 : a selection from the Harris collection of American poetry and plays. (Friends of the Library of Brown Univ., 1947), by Brown University. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday and Co., 1956), ed. by Perry Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American books & printing (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), by John T. Winterich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritans (American Book Co., 1938), by Perry Miller and Thomas Herbert Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wit and humor of colonial days (1607-1800) (J. B. Lippincott company, 1912), by Carl Holliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from early American writers, 1607-1800 (The Macmillan company, 1909), by William B. Cairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial prose and poetry (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1929), by William P. Trent and B. W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonial prose and poetry ... (Thomas Y. Crowell & co., 1903), by William Peterfield Trent and B. W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wit and humor of colonial days (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1960), by Carl Holliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial prose and poetry ... (Thomas Y. Crowell & co., 1903), by William P. Trent and B. W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's literary museum: a compendium of instructive, entertaining, and amusing matter, selected from early American writings. (Harper & brothers, 1927), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneer literature : Colonial poetry and prose : first series (T.Y. Crowell, 1903), by Benjamin W. Wells and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from early American writers, 1607-1800 (Macmillan, 1917), by William B. Cairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from early American writers : 1607-1800 (Macmillian, 1920), by William B. Cairns and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• The small beginnings of literature in Kings County. (Published by the author, 1922), by Charles Andrew Ditmas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from early American writers, 1607-1800 (The Macmillan company, 1917), by Cairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of America's literature : with selections from colonial and revolutionary writers (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of America's literature, with selections from colonial and revolutionary writers (Houghton Mifflin company, 1929), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonial prose and poetry. (AMS Press, 1970), by William P. Trent and B. W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jim Egan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2007), by Michelle Burnham (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861 (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1997), by Michelle Burnham (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)
• A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Volume I (1607-1676): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1676-1765): multiple formats at archive.org
• Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in Virginia, 1607-1699; Other Cultural Topics (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #15; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Susie M. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on American literature : with remarks on some passages of American history (Elam Bliss, 1829), by Samuel L. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1878), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature, 1607-1765. (Cornell University Press, 1949), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary culture in early New England, 1620-1730. (Yale University Press, 1920), by Thomas Goddard Wright and Mabel Hyde Kingsbury Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New England mind; the seventeenth century (The Macmillan company, 1939), by Perry Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New England mind: the seventeenth century. (Harvard University Press, 1954), by Perry Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The literature of Virginia in the seventeenth century. (The Academy, 1946), by Howard Mumford Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The New England mind; the seventeenth century. (Beacon Press, 1961), by Perry Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature during the colonial time ... (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1897), by Moses Coit Tyler, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1879), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1878), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading, writing and arithmetic in Virginia, 1607-1699 [and] other cultural topics (Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by Susie M. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature (Sampson Low Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of the literary history of Colonial Pennsylvania (AMS Press, 1966), by M. Katherine Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of the literary history of colonial Pennsylvania (Press of the New Era printing company., 1906), by M. Katherine Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature .. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature; I, 1607-1676; II, 1676-1765. (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1886), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1881), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature ... (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by Moses Coit Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)

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