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• 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)

• Preliminary List of Books and Pamphlets by Negro Authors, for Paris Exposition and Library of Congress (1900), by Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (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)

• The Guide to Catholic Literature (8 volumes; 1940-1967) (page images at Villanova)

• A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics, From the Breach with Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time (5 volumes; London: Burns and Oates; New York: Catholic Pub. Society Co., ca. 1885-1895), by Joseph Gillow
  • Volume I (Abbot-Curr): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Dacre-Gradwell): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Graham-Kemble): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Kemeys-Metham): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Meynell-Zoone): multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, by Blackie & Son (partial serial archives)

• Canadian Children's Books, 1799-1939, in the Special Collections and University Archives Division, The University of British Columbia Library: A Bibliographical Catalogue, ed. by Sheila A. Egoff (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Horn Book (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (partial serial archives)
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials (full serial archives)
• The Elementary English Review (partial serial archives)

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991, by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at umn.edu)

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991, by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at umn.edu)

• A Brief History of Boys' Journals, With Interesting facts About the Writers of Boys' Stories (1913), by Ralph Rollington (illustrated HTML at archive.org)

• Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1955), by Anne Lyon Haight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places (first edition; New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1935), by Anne Lyon Haight, contrib. by Elisabeth Luce Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum (primarily in Latin, with book titles in their original languages; Turin: Typ. Pontifica et Archiepiscopalis, 1892), by Catholic Church (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• 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)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (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 (Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1974), by Robert Silverberg (PDF at ed.gov)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, by John W. Velz (page images at uvic.ca)

• American Popular Magazines (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1916), by Ethel Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond the Sunset (Eau Claire, WI: Pub. for the author, 1921), by Ida May Hill Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arthur Machen: A Bibliography (with notes by Machen and an introduction by Savage; London: H. Danielson, 1923), by Henry Danielson, contrib. by Arthur Machen and Henry Savage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Crooked Rib: An Analytical Index to the Argument About Women in English and Scots Literature, to the End of the Year 1568 (contributions in languages and literature #10; Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1944), by Francis Lee Utley (page images at HathiTrust)

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