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• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Vidding: A History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Francesca Coppa (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Romantic Fandom (2011), ed. by Eric Eisner (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)

• Deliverance (c1995), by D. West (multiple formats in the UK)
• For Fans by Fans: Early Science Fiction Fandom and the Fanzines (master's thesis; Pensacola, FL: University of West Florida, 2015), by Rachel Anne Johnson (at purl.fcla.edu)
• The Transatlantic Hearing Aid (originally published 1985; this edition Reading, UK: Ansible Editions, 2015), by David Langford (Epub at TAFF)
• The Enchanted Duplicator (c1954), by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw (EPub at TAFF)

• Midwest Side Story: A Fannish Musical As Presented at MINICON 12, Leamington Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., April 9, 1977, by Minnesota Science Fiction Society. (PDF at mnstf.org)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• The Collectors: Being Cases Mostly Under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments (1912), by Frank Jewett Mather (Gutenberg text)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Golden Bowl (1904), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bowl (New York edition, 1909), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)

• The Outcry (1911), by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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

• The Coin Collector (London: G. Redway, 1896), by William Carew Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.