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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)
• A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Bibliographica America v2; includes Heartman's bibliography of Phillis Wheatley; New York: C. F. Heartman, 1916), by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, contrib. by Charles F. Heartman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)
• Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille T. Dungy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of American Negro Poetry, Chosen and Edited With an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), ed. by James Weldon Johnson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bronze: A Book Of Verse (Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1922), by Georgia Douglas Johnson, contrib. by W. E. B. Du Bois (mulitiple formats at archive.org)

• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jon Woodson (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (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)

• 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)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF at ilab.org)

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)

• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Fiction Section (second edition revised; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1931), by Phyllis Crawford, ed. by Corinne Bacon (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)
• 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)
• Pantology: or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, Proposing a Classification of All Its Branches and Illustrating Their History, Relations, Uses, and Objects (Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1841), by Roswell Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: A History, Together With the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ca. 1948), contrib. by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)

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