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• Catalogue Général Illustré d'Instruments de Chirurgie, Collin, Maison Charrière (surgical instruments catalog in French, ca. 1914; with price list from 1922), by Collin et cie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue Général Illustré d'Instruments de Chirurgie, Maison Charrière, Collin (surgical instruments catalog in French; Paris: Chez Collin et cie, 1925), by Collin et cie (page images in France)

• Archives du Bibliophile (in French), ed. by A. Claudin (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin Mensuel (Librarie Damascène Morgand) (partial serial archives)

• Americana Catalogue no. 600: Including Scarce and Precious Books, Manuscripts and Engravings From The Collections of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Charles Et. Brasseur de Bourbourg, The Library of Edward Salomon, Late Governor of The State of Wisconsin, and Other Important Collections (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: J. Baer and Co., 1911), by Joseph Baer (Firm)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Seleced Catalogue of Some of the Most Esteemed Publications in the English Language Proper to Form a Social Library; With an Introduction Upon the Choice of Books (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Thaddeus Mason Harris (MS Word at Princeton)

• The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature (partial serial archives)
• Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, by Blackie & Son (partial serial archives)

• Selected List of Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell's Publications (book catalog, ca. 1890), by W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country, With the Publishers' and Authors' Names and Prices Arranged in Classes for Quick and Convenient Reference (with an article on copyright by Washburn; Claremont, NH: S. Ide, 1847), ed. by Alexander Vietts Blake, contrib. by Peter T. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confidential Price-List and Telegraph Code (publisher's wholesale catalog; 1894), by McLoughlin Bros. (PDF at americanantiquarian.org)
• The Work of the Open Court Publishing Co.: An Illustrated Catalogue of its Publications Covering a Period of Twenty-One Years (1887-1907), by Open Court Publishing Company (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Language and Culture Archives (successor to Bibliography of the Summer Institute of Linguistics), by SIL International (searchable HTML at sil.org)

• The Publishers' Trade List Annual (partial serial archives)

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

• Advertising Theory and Practice (revised edition; Chicago: R. D. Irwin, 1946), by C. H. Sandage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ayer Idea in Advertising (c1912), by N.W. Ayer & Son (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forty Years of Advertising: A Collection of Somewhat Intimate Talks on Certain Phases of Advertising, by the Largest and Leading Agency (Philadelphia et al.: N. W. Ayer and Son, c1909), by N.W. Ayer & Son (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scientific Advertising (1923), by Claude C. Hopkins (PDF with commentary at scientificadvertising.com)
• Publicity: Some of the Things It Is and Is Not (New York: Industries Publishing Company, 1925), by Ivy L. Lee (page images at loc.gov)
• The Story of a Pantry Shelf: An Outline History of Grocery Specialties, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Hole to Creep Out at From the Late Act of Parliament Against Geneva, and Other Spirituous Liquors: By a New Dram Far Better Than Gin, and a New Punch, Far Wholesomer Than Either Brandy, Rum, or Arrack Punch (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1736) (page images at NIH)

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky (New York: Royal Baking Powder Co., ca. 1926), by Ruth Plumly Thompson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• This Side of Paradise (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Andy Blake's Comet Coaster (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Printers' Ink (partial serial archives)
• Printers' Ink Monthly (partial serial archives)

• The Psychology of Advertising in Theory and Practice: A Simple Exposition of the Principles of Psychology in Their Relation to Successful Advertising (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)

• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)

• Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, c2009), by Michael R. Solomon, Lisa Duke Cornell, and Amit Nizan (PDF at saylor.org)

• The Adams Articles, Published in the New York Tribune During the Months of January and February Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, With the Incidental Advertisements (New York: Trow Press, ca. 1915), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, ed. by New York Tribune (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Menace of the Chains (1924), by Millis Advertising Company (page images at LOC)

• 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)

• Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)

• The Adams Articles, Published in the New York Tribune During the Months of January and February Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, With the Incidental Advertisements (New York: Trow Press, ca. 1915), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, ed. by New York Tribune (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Decorating Show Windows and Displaying Merchandise (fifth edition; Chicago: Merchants Record Co., c1924), ed. by Lewis A. Rogers, contrib. by Charles A. Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Gender Advertisements (as originally published in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1976), by Erving Goffman (PDF files here at Penn)

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gender Advertisements (as originally published in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1976), by Erving Goffman (PDF files here at Penn)

• The Television Commercial: How to Create and Produce Effective TV Advertising (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Hastings House, c1957), by Harry Wayne McMahan (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Television Commercial: How to Create and Produce Effective TV Advertising (first edition; New York: Hastings House, c1954), by Harry Wayne McMahan (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Television Status and Trends (New York: Association of National Advertisers, 1949), by Alfred N. Goldsmith (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Selling and Promoting Radio and Television (New York: Printers' Ink Pub. Co, c1954), by Jacob A. Evans (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Unleashing the Ideavirus, by Seth Godin
  • PDF at ideavirus.com
  • HTML at bookreporter.com

More items available under broader and related terms at left.