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• Booksellers and bookselling -- North America
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Directories

• Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- Directories

• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)

• Caspar's Directory of the American Book, News and Stationery Trade, Wholesale and Retail (Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar's Book Emporium; et al., 1889), by C. N. Caspar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Trade in the United States in 1905 (typescript thesis; 1905), by Francis K. W. Drury
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Printing in America; With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers, to Which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World (2 volumes; Worcester, MA: I. Thomas, 1810), by Isaiah Thomas
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bookseller (19th and early 20th century Chicago-based book trade journal) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer (partial serial archives)
• The Bookseller's Friend (1894-1895; no further issues known to be published), ed. by Roy W. Crabb (full serial archives)
• Against the Grain (free online access to most issues more than 3 years old) (partial serial archives)
• The American Bookseller (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Directory (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)

• Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)

• A Seleced Catalogue of Some of the Most Esteemed Publications in the English Language Proper to Form a Social Library; With an Introduction Upon the Choice of Books (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Thaddeus Mason Harris (MS Word at Princeton)

• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)