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• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (Gutenberg text)

• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Directory (partial serial archives)

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

• A Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (1881-1923) (new edition; London: J. Lane, 1923), by E. W. Martindell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • third and fourth portions: multiple formats at archive.org

• Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne: Précédée d'un Coup d'Oeil sur les Études Américaines dans leurs Rapports avec les Études Classiques et Suivie du Tableau par Ordre Alphabétique des Ouvrages de Linguistique Américaine Contenus dans le même Volume (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1871), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bibliotheca Meermanniana (4 sale catalog books in 2 volumes, in various languages; 1824), contrib. by Gerard Meerman and Johan Meerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Private Library (partial serial archives)

• Hemingway's Library: A Composite Record (scanned from the 1981 edition; text only), by James Daniel Brasch and Joseph Sigman (PDF at jfklibrary.org)

• A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, and Reference Books, in Schools, Colleges and Libraries (published by the United Conferate Veterans, ca. 1919), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On Books and the Housing of Them (New York: M. F. Mansfield, 1898), by W. E. Gladstone
  • illustrated HTML at rtpnet.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• The Connoisseur (1901-1992) (partial serial archives)
• The Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full serial archives)
• Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• Chats on Postage Stamps (second impression; London: T. F. Unwin, 1920), by Frederick John Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Poetry of Travelling in the United States, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)

• Antique Maps (based on the third edition, 1989), by Carl Moreland and David Bannister (illustrated HTML at AntiqueMaps.co.uk)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide (1995), by Stephanie A. Hall (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona
• Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors (London: B. T. Batsford, 1908), by Margaret Jourdain
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

More items available under broader and related terms at left.