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• A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books (Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937), by Walter Klinefelter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Annuals and Gift-Books: A Bibliography With a Descriptive Introduction (Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1912), by Frederick W. Faxon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• The Young Lady's Offering: or, Gems of Prose and Poetry (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1851), contrib. by L. H. Sigourney, Mrs. Hemans, Eliza Cook, L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Mary Howitt, and Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Affection's Gift: A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Present (2 parts (first by Winslow, second by Sandford) in 1 volume; New York: Leavitt and Allen, ca. 1854), contrib. by Hubbard Winslow and Elizabeth Sandford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Keepsake (partial serial archives)

• The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (London: Jarrold and Sons, ca. 1915), ed. by George Goodchild (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), ed. by George Goodchild (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Defenders of Democracy: Contributions from Representative Men and Women of Letters and Other Arts From Our Allies and Our Own Country (1918), ed. by Militia of Mercy (U.S.) Gift Book Committee (Gutenberg text)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Princess Mary's Gift Book (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1914) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's Gift Book: In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), contrib. by Queen Mary, John Galsworthy, Arthur James Balfour, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, John Buchan, J. E. Buckrose, Hall Caine, Joseph Conrad, Ethel M. Dell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol, Beatrice Harraden, Joseph Hocking, Leonard Merrick, Jerome K. Jerome, John Oxenham, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Neil Munro, E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross, Marjory Royce, H. C. McNeile, Maud Diver, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Humphry Ward, illust. by William Llewellyn, A. S. Cope, Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer, Harry Rountree, Archibald Webb, J. H. Hartley, William Hatherell, C. M. Padday, W. Russell Flint, Ernest H. Shepard, L. Raven-Hill, S. Abbey, Arthur Rackham, Fred Pegram, Edmund Blampied, Gordon Browne, Eugene Hastain, Claude A. Shepperson, C. E. Brock, W. Heath Robinson, G. Barrow, Leo Cheney, M. E. Gray, Charles Robinson, Dudley Hardy, and Leopold Bates
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Told in the Huts: The Y.M.C.A. Gift Book Contributed by Soldiers and War Workers (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), contrib. by Arthur K. Yapp, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • copy with different greetings in front; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Canada in Khaki: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (London: Pub. for the Canadian War Records Office by the Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canada in Khaki No. 2: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Overseas Military Forces of Canada (Toronto: Musson Book Co., ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• 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)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)

• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Fiction Section (second edition revised; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1931), by Phyllis Crawford, ed. by Corinne Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• Pantology: or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, Proposing a Classification of All Its Branches and Illustrating Their History, Relations, Uses, and Objects (Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1841), by Roswell Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: A History, Together With the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ca. 1948), contrib. by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)

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