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• Voci del tempo : prima serie : profili di letterati e filosofi contemporanei (Libreria di scienze e lettere, 1923), by Adriano Tilgher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dichters in het koffyhuis : herinneringen (Hollandia, 1925), by Otto Pieter Reys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Dee Garrison, contrib. by Katherine Turk (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn (2 volumes; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998), by Ralph Melnick
  • Volume I (A Touch of Wildness): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
  • Volume II (This Dark and Desperate Age): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
• The World and the Bo Tree (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interviews With David Madden (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by David Madden, ed. by Carol Morrow and James A. Perkins (PDF at Tennessee)
• My Amiable Uncle: Recollections About Booth Tarkington (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1983), by Susanah Mayberry, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress (PDF at Purdue)
• Onions in the Stew (c1955), by Betty Bard MacDonald (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• All Our Lives: Alice Duer Miller (New York: Coward-McCann, c1945), by Henry Wise Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1943), by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (author died in 1960; c1942), by Zora Neale Hurston (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Long Way From Home (New York: Lee Furman Inc., c1937), by Claude McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green Hills of Africa (c1935), by Ernest Hemingway (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Son of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Alice Barber Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pagan Spain (c1957), by Richard Wright (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Adventures in Friendship, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book of Jack London (2 volumes; New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Charmian London
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: illustrated HTML at jacklondons.net
• The Diary of Opal Whiteley (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Opal Stanley Whiteley, contrib. by Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon and Ellery Sedgwick
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text)
• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1920), by Opal Stanley Whiteley, contrib. by Ellery Sedgwick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through The World of Facts, With Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1924), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawthorne's Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1970), by Maurice Bassan (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), by Gertrude Stein (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Constance Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Hamlin Garland
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Egg and I (c1945), by Betty Bard MacDonald (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• John Barleycorn, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Pistols For Two ("by Owen Hatteras"; New York: Knopf, 1917), by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• R. H. D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Tuliliemen Tuttavana: Alkoholimuistelmia (John Barleycorn in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1914), by Jack London, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Contentment (New York: Hurst and Co., 1907), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Through the South Seas with Jack London (London: T.W. Laurie, ca. 1913), by Martin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zane Grey : the man and his work (Harper, 1928), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A story teller's story; the tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts (B. W. Huebsch, inc., 1924), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tar; a midwest childhood (Boni and Liveright, 1926), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary McCarthy. (University of Minnesota Press, 1968), by Irvin Stock (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.H.D. : appreciations of Richard Harding Davis. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and letters of Stuart P. Sherman (Farrar & Rinehart, 1929), by Jacob Zeitlin, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Homer Edwards Woodbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Main house and Swedish house at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Flat Rock, North Carolina (National Park Service], 1986), by David H. Wallace and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Barleycorn (The Century Co., 1913), by Jack London and Harvey Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out-of-doors in the Holy land : impressions of travel in body and spirit (C. Scribner's sons, 1908), by Henry Van Dyke, Harry Fenn, Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress), and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Next to mother's milk-- : an Engelhard lecture on the book (Library of Congress, 1987), by Lawrence Clark Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Randolph Bourne (American council on public affairs, 1943), by Louis Filler and American Council on Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and the sense of wonder (Library of Congress, 1992), by John Malcolm Brinnin, Florida Center for the Book, and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)
• The middle years (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Henry James and Percy Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The middle years (W. Collins sons & co., ltd., 1917), by Henry James and Percy Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John Barleycorn, or, Alcoholic memoirs (Mills & Boon, 1914), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael Monahan : an appreciation (Printery of the Phoenix, 1914), by Richard Le Gallienne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carl Sandburg Home : Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, North Carolina (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1982), by Paula Steichen and United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out-of-doors in the Holy land : impressions of travel in body and spirit (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), by Henry Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up stream; an American chronicle (Boni and Liveright, 1922), by Ludwig Lewisohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A story teller's story : the tale of an American writer's journey through his imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers, told in many notes, in four books, and an epilogue (Viking Press, 1922), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in contentment (A.Melrose ;, 1912), by Ray Stannard Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John Barleycorn (Bell & Cockburn, 1913), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Out-of-doors in the Holy Land impressions of travel in body and spirit (Copp, Clark, 1908), by Henry Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The friendly road : new adventures in contentment (Doubleday, Page and Co., 1916), by David Grayson and Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pistols for two (Knopf, 1917), by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house in the woods (A. S. Barnes & company, 1904), by Arthur Henry, Decorative Designers (Firm), De Vinne Press, and A.S. Barnes & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures in friendship (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910), by David Grayson, Thomas Fogarty, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the Snark (Mills & Boon, Limited, 1923), by Jack London, Charles A. Kofoid, Watson & Viney Hazell, and Mills & Boon (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures in contentment (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1925), by David Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• D.H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus : a plea for better manners (Douglas], 1925), by Norman Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A story teller's story : The tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Etelämere auringon alla (in Finnish), by Jack London (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Hawaii : (Islands and islanders), by Charmian London, contrib. by Jack London (Gutenberg ebook)
• How it feels to be colored me, by Zora Neale Hurston (Gutenberg ebook)
• A long way from home, by Claude McKay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch, by Hervey Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gene Stratton Porter, Best-Seller, by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County (Gutenberg ebook)
• Irvin Cobb, His Book:: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through the South Seas with Jack London, by Martin Johnson, contrib. by Ralph D. Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit, by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg ebook)

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