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• Catena Librorum Tacendorum: Being Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books (London: Privately printed, 1885), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forbidden Books: Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature, by an Old Bibliophile (attributed to Carrington in "Encyclopedia of Censorship"; Paris: For the author and his friends, 1902), by Charles Carrington (page images at Gallica)
• Index Librorum Prohibitoru: Being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono-Graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books, by Pisanus Fraxi (London: Privately printed, 1877), by Henry Spencer Ashbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Le Livre de Volupté (Bah Nameh) (in French; Haqq credited as translator, but title page information dubious; ca. 1884), contrib. by Abdul Haqq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) (literal English version; Manchester: Privately printed for Viscount J. Smithson and friends, 1884), by Friedrich Karl Forberg (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of Lust (based on a 4-volume 1892 edition) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr (ca. 1861) (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• My Secret Life (11 volumes, 1888) (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Dictionary of Erotic Literature (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Harry E. Wedeck (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Voyage to Lethe (London: Printed for J. Conybeare, 1741), by Samuel Cock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (2 volumes; London and New York: The Alexandrian Society, 1922), by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Choise of Valentines: or, The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo (London: Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1899), by Thomas Nash, ed. by John Stephen Farmer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dictionary of Erotic Literature (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Harry E. Wedeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Erotic Motive in Literature (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Albert Mordell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Robert D. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Sprache der Lateinischen Erotik (in German; Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1912), by Richard Reitzenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eros, contrib. by Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin (full serial archives)
• The Pearl (partial serial archives)

• Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)

• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (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

• Bibliographia Catholica Americana, a List of Works Written by Catholic Authors, Part I: From 1784 to 1820 Inclusive (no further parts published; New York: Catholic Publication House, 1872), by Joseph M. Finotti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A List of Books for the Study of the Social Question: Being an Introduction to Catholic Social Literature (4th edition; 1915), by Catholic Central Verein of America, ed. by Louis F. Budenz (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography (Yale Studies in English #16; c1903), by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of Dramatic Literature (La Jolla, CA: World Drama Prompters, c1915), ed. by H. N. Clugston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Viewpoints in Modern Drama: An Arrangement of Plays According to Their Essential Interest (Chicago: American library association, 1925), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Research Issues #9; Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg
  • PDF at ed.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• 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)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (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)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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