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• Periodicals

• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• L'Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Notes and Queries (partial serial archives)
• The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop (partial serial archives)
• Notes and Queries (Manchester, NH: S. C. and L.M. Gould, 1882-1909), ed. by S. C. Gould (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (1941-1950) (partial serial archives)

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

• The Child's Guide to Knowledge: Being a Collection of Useful and Familiar Questions and Answers on Every-Day Subjects Adapted for Young Persons, and Arranged in the Most Simple and Easy Language (published anonymously, but originally written by Umphelby; 38th edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1865), by Fanny Umphelby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at djm.cc
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by W. J. Pepicello and Thomas A. Green (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Literary Riddle in Italy in the Seventeenth Century (UC Publications in Modern Philology v40; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by Michele De Filippis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patty's Motor Car (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1911), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jimmy Crow (Boston: Dana Estes and Co., c1902), by Edith Francis Foster
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at LOC

• Rijmpies en Raaisels: Bijdraë tot die Suidafrikaanse Volkskunde (in Afrikaans; Groningen and The Hague: J.B. Wolters, 1919), by C. F. Groenewald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Collection of Birds and Riddles, by Miss Polly and Master Tommy (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good Child's Amusing Riddle-Book, Adorned with Cuts (Birmingham, UK: Printed by T. Brandard, n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Riddle-Book (Wendell, MA: J. Metcalf, 1828) (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• The Riddle-Book, for the Entertainment of Boys and Girls (New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1826) (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• A Riddle Book, For the Use of Children (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Riddles of Aldhelm: Text and Verse Translation, With Notes (Yale Studies in English #67; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925), by Saint Aldhelm, ed. by James Hall Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Little Book of Filipino Riddles (Yonkers, NY: World Book Co., 1909), ed. by Frederick Starr (Gutenberg text)

• Report to the President by the Attorney General on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media (Washington: GPO, 1959), by United States Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Check-List of American and English Periodicals (Boston: Boston Book Co, 1908), by Frederick W. Faxon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Eclectic (full serial archives)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Magazine Circulation: An Outline of Methods and Meanings (New York: The McCall Co., c1936), by Phillips Wyman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writer's Market (partial serial archives)

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (revised 1891 edition and 5 supplementary volumes; reprinted 1958), by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher, Franklin Osborne Poole, and Mary Poole
  • A-J, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • K-Z, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1st supplement, 1882-1887: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 2nd supplement, 1887-1892: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 3rd supplement, 1892-1896: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 4th supplement, 1897-1902: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 5th supplement, 1902-1907: multiple formats at archive.org
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)
• International Index to Periodicals (partial serial archives)
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (partial serial archives)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (partial serial archives)

• Insights: The UKSG Journal (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

• Magazine Reader Count for County, State, and Nation (New York: The Bureau, 1949), by Magazine Advertising Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine Rate and Circulation Study (c1948), by Association of National Advertisers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Time (US news magazine, 1923-) (partial serial archives)
• Scribner's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Lippincott's Magazine (full serial archives)
• Scribner's Monthly (full serial archives)
• Writing for the Quality Market: A Scientific Analysis of Eight Quality Magazines Showing Requirements, Policy and Slanting (New York: Publications Division, Literary America, c1935) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

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