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• Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Year's Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 (1841), by George Catlin
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (unauthorized edition, not actually published by Stokes; 1890), by James McNeill Whistler, ed. by Sheridan Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (new (authorized) edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1892), by James McNeill Whistler (Gutenberg text)

• Wilde v. Whistler: Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler (unauthorized publication of correpondence taken from Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; London: Privately printed, 1906), by Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Biographical Sketches of American Artists (third edition; Lansing: Michigan State Library, 1915), ed. by Helen L. Earle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Biographical Sketches of American Artists (fifth edition; Lansing: Michigan State Library, 1924), ed. by Helen L. Earle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists (2004), contrib. by Virginia Shore (PDF at state.gov)

• John James Audubon, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• The "Genius" (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The "Genius" (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1915), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)

• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Illustrated Catalogue of Etchings by American Artists, With Biographical Sketches (Chicago: Albert Roullier's Art Galleries, 1913), by Albert Roullier's Art Rooms, contrib. by H. H. Tolerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nineteenth Century German-American Church Artists, by Annemarie Springer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marks of American Potters (Philadelphia: Patterson and White Co., 1904), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at Wisconsin)

• Army Art of World War I (illustrated HTML at army.mil)

• Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (New York, NY: American Business Consultants, 1950), by American Business Consultants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)

• John James Audubon, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• Harry Bertoia, Sculptor (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1970), by June Kompass Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919), by Louisa Frederici Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Daily Review (souvenir booklet; ca. 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Programme (souvenir program; 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Fifteen Years of a Dancer's Life, With Some Account of Her Distinguished Friends (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1913), by Loie Fuller, contrib. by Anatole France (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Miracle in the Evening: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960), by Norman Bel Geddes, ed. by William Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co.; New York: C. H. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• A Basket of Chips: An Autobiography, by James Taylor Harwood, ed. by Robert S. Olpin (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Janet Mansfield Soares (page images at HathiTrust)

• Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1959), by William Lindsay Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lulu Hurst (The Georgia Wonder) Writes Her Autobiography, and For the First Time Explains and Demonstrates the Great Secret of Her Marvelous Power (fourth edition; Rome, GA: Psychic Pub. Co., c1897), by Lulu Hurst (PDF and DjVu at usg.edu)

• Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1978), by Philip Rhys Adams (PDF at Ohio State)

• Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga (Punctum Books, c2016), by Robert Craig Baum (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Rockin' My Life Away: Listening to Jerry Lee Lewis, by Jimmy Guterman (HTML with commentary at guterman.com)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Tim Miller, ed. by Glen M. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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