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• American periodicals
• 20th century

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

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• Time (US news magazine, 1923-) (partial serial archives)
• Scribner's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Lippincott's Magazine (full serial archives)
• Scribner's Monthly (full serial archives)
• Writing for the Quality Market: A Scientific Analysis of Eight Quality Magazines Showing Requirements, Policy and Slanting (New York: Publications Division, Literary America, c1935) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Representative Magazines of the Civil War and Reconstruction Period (Masters thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1922), by Lillian Charlotte Niemann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines, 1741-1810 (Philadelphia: Americana Germanica Press, 1905; republished 1966), by Edward Ziegler Davis (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada, ed. by Henry O. Severance, contrib. by Charles Harper Walsh (full serial archives)
• The American Labor Press: An Annotated Directory (Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, ca. 1940), by University of Wisconsin, contrib. by John R. Commons and David D. Levine (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Popular Magazines (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1916), by Ethel Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography for the Study of Magazines (revised edition; Urbana: College of Communications, University of Illinois, 1979), by John H. Schacht (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trans-Mississippi West: A Guide to its Periodical Literature (1811-1938) (Indiana University Social Science Series #3; Bloomington: Indiana University, c1942), by Oscar Osburn Winther (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Audiences of 5 Magazines: Size, Characteristics, Possessions, Cost Analysis: Newsweek, Time, U. S. News and World Report, Life, The Saturday Evening Post (New York, Newsweek, c1962), by Audits & Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

• N.W. Ayer and Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory (partial serial archives)

• Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals to 1865 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1944), by Bertram Holland Flanders (PDF at Georgia)

• Magazines in the Twentieth Century (first edition; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), by Theodore Peterson (PDF at modjourn.org)
• French Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1830 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1909), by Charles Dean Cool (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Magazine in America (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Algernon de Vivier Tassin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Translations in American Magazines From 1880 to 1890 (University of Wisconsin thesis, 1913), by Lois Detweiler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German Literature in American Magazines, 1846 to 1880 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1908), by Martin Henry Haertel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• German Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1846 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1907), by Scott Holland Goodnight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Magazines of a Market-Metropolis: Being a History of the Literary Periodicals and Literary Interests of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906), by Herbert Easton Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors, 1741-1850 (Philadelphia: R. M. Lindsay, 1892), by Albert H. Smyth
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Magazine Reader Count for County, State, and Nation (New York: The Bureau, 1949), by Magazine Advertising Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine Rate and Circulation Study (c1948), by Association of National Advertisers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Audiences of 5 Magazines: Size, Characteristics, Possessions, Cost Analysis: Newsweek, Time, U. S. News and World Report, Life, The Saturday Evening Post (New York, Newsweek, c1962), by Audits & Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Boy (partial serial archives)
• Child Life (partial serial archives)
• Harper's Round Table (full serial archives)
• Harper's Young People (full serial archives)

• The Puritan (1897-1901) (partial serial archives)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at terrenceberres.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Michigan
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

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