Phage monographs

Bacteriophage (phage) are viruses of bacteria and arguably are the most numerous "organisms" on Earth. The history of phage study is captured, in part, in the books published on the topic. Presented is a list of 100-plus phage or phage-related monographs.

History of list
Scientific disciplines often are not defined by their books but, rather, are reflected by them: A book is an author's or editor's sense of what is important in one subdiscipline, or an entire field, at one particular moment — within the constraints of whatever limitations have been placed on content, typically as by the publisher. Important limitations include such things as space, color plates, merit, etc. With the advent of the World Wide Web, many of these old limits no longer exist, though potentially at the cost of permanence. An author (or authors) today (as of September, 2006) can write anything they want, and reach a wide audience. But they will stay in "print" only so long as their web host stays in business and/or appropriate fees are paid. Wikipedia suggests a compromise, where, contrasting to one's own web page, content, in principle, may last "forever". Of course "forever" will be in a mutable form, but that also means that both error correction and updating are possible. Indeed, are encouraged!

Within this context, this article consists of a list of phage monographs (as loosely defined) dating back to 1921 (phage are viruses of bacteria). The list was created — because of the space limitations of traditional print — during the writing of the first chapter of the edited monograph, Bacteriophage Ecology (forecasted publication date: 2007, Cambridge University Press) and in order to be cited by that chapter. A forerunner of this list can be found in the January 1, 2005, issue (#23) of the Bacteriophage Ecology Group News, an online newsletter of the Bacteriophage Ecology Group. See phage ecology for more on that subdiscipline of phage biology and ecology.

Editing list
An approximation of ASM (American Society for Microbiology) conventions are used throughout. Titles (or English translations) have been presented in bold to allow for rapid scanning, and italics have been avoided both to improve readability and as consistent with ASM conventions. OCLC refers to a monograph's WorldCat accession number. ASIN is the Amazon Standard Identification Number (shown if ISBN is not known).


 * Bullets indicate uncertainty about the appropriateness of an entry for this list. If you feel that a monograph should be removed from this list then please indicate why in brackets at the end of the entry (in italics), e.g., [this entry should be removed from this list because... ]

Help with cyrillic lettering, transliterations, translations, missing information, uncited monographs, etc. is much appreciated. Please contact Dr. Stephen T. Abedon (through www.phage.org) with suggested changes or, of course, feel free to make changes (including updating) as appropriate.

Books published in the 2000s

 * 1) Abedon, S. T., ed. 2008. Bacteriophage Ecology: Population Growth, Evolution, and Impact of Bacterial Viruses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. OCLC ???, ISBN 0-52185-845-3 (current estimated publication date, March, 2008)
 * 2) Clokie, S. T., ed. 2008. Bacteriophages: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. OCLC ???, ISBN 1-58829-682-2 (current estimated publication date, May, 2008)
 * 3) McGrath, S. and van Sinderen, D., eds. 2007. Bacteriophage: Genetics and Molecular Biology. Caister Academic Press, ???. OCLC ???, ISBN 1-90445-514-X, Google Books
 * 4) Cairns, J., G. Stent, and J. D. Watson, eds. 2007. Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (40th anniversary edition). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC ???, ISBN 0-87969-800-4
 * 5) Holmes, F. L., and W. C. Summers. 2006. Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. OCLC 62342731, ISBN 0-300-11078-2
 * 6) Wegrzyn, G., ed. 2006. Modern Bacteriophage Biology and Biotechnology. Research Signpost 37/661 (2), Fort PO, Trivandrum-695023, Kerala, India. ISBN 81-308-0033-0
 * 7) Calendar, R., and S. T. Abedon, eds. 2006. The Bacteriophages. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford. OCLC 65192869, ISBN 0-19-514850-9, Google Books
 * 8) Häusler, T. 2006. Viruses vs. Superbugs: A Solution to the Antibiotic Crisis. Macmillan, London. OCLC 62804701, ISBN 1-4039-8764-5
 * 9) Birge, E. A. 2006. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics. Springer-Verlag, New York. OCLC 17838673, ISBN 0-387-23919-7, Google Books
 * 10) Catalano, C. E., ed. 2005. Viral Genome Packaging Machines: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism. Landes Bioscience/Eurekah, Georgetown, TX; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. OCLC 57731385, ISBN 0-306-48227-4, Google Books
 * 11) Kutter, E., and A. Sulakvelidze, eds. 2005. Bacteriophages: Biology and Application. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. OCLC 56880238, ISBN 0-8493-1336-8, Google Books
 * 12) Sidhu, S. S. 2005. Phage Display In Biotechnology and Drug Discovery. CRC Press, OCLC 60311940, ISBN 0-8247-5466-2, Google Books
 * 13) Waldor, M. K., D. Friedman, and S. Adhya, eds. 2005. Phages: Their Role in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Biotechnology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. OCLC 57557385, ISBN 1-55581-307-0, Google Books
 * 14) Clackson, T., and H. B. Lowman. 2004. Phage Display: A Practical Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford. OCLC 54904081, ISBN 0-19-963874-8, Google Books
 * 15) Ptashne, M. 2004. Genetic Switch: Phage Lambda Revisited. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. OCLC 54035585, ISBN 0-87969-716-4, Google Books
 * 16) Häusler, T. 2003. Gesund durch Viren — Ein Ausweg aus der Antibiotika-Krise. Piper, München, Germany. [German; Healthy through Viruses - A Way Out of the Antibiotic-Resistance Crisis] OCLC 53098607
 * 17) O'Brien, P. M., and R. Aitken. 2002. Antibody Phage Display: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press, Totawa, NJ. OCLC 50175105, ISBN 0-89603-906-4, Google Books
 * 18) Peyrieras, N., and M. Morange. 2002. Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob. Odile Jacob, Paris. [French; The scientific works of François Jacob] OCLC 49567654
 * 19) Burton, D. R., J. K. Scott, G. J. Silverman, and C. F. Barbas. 2001. Phage Display: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor,NY. OCLC 43903550, ISBN 0-87969-740-7
 * 20) Birge, E. A. 2000. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics. Springer-Verlag, New York. OCLC 41273243, ISBN 0-387-23919-7
 * 21) Stahl, F. W. 2000. We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 43185885, ISBN 0-87969-567-6, Google Books

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * Rasool, S. A. 2002. Bacterial Viruses: Basic and Applied Concepts. University Grants Coommission, Islamabad. OCLC 62340547
 * Jia, P. X. 2001. Molecular Biology of Bacteriophage. Science Press, Beijing. OCLC ???
 * Kutter, E. 2001. Phage Therapy: Bacteriophage as Natural, Self-limiting Antibiotics. AstraZeneca Research Foundation India, India. OCLC ???, ISBN 81-901238-3-1

Books published in the 1990s

 * 1) Summers, W. C. 1999. Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. OCLC 47011823, ISBN 0-300-07127-2, Google Books
 * Kay, B. K., J. Winter, and J. McCafferty. 1996. Phage Display of Peptides and Proteins: A Laboratory Manual. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. OCLC 34409484, ISBN 0-12-402380-0
 * 1) Rothman-Denes, L., and R. Weisberg. 1995. Recent developments in bacteriophage virology. Academic Press, London. OCLC 34099713
 * 2) Birge, E. A. 1994. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics. Springer-Verlag, New York. OCLC 29791890, ISBN 3-540-94270-X
 * 3) Jacob, F. 1995. The Statue Within: An Autobiography. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. OCLC 17353378, ISBN 0-87969-476-9
 * 4) Karam, J. D. et al. 1994. Molecular Biology of Bacteriophage T4. ASM Press, Washington, DC. OCLC 30028892, ISBN 1-55581-064-0
 * 5) Twort, A. 1993. In Focus, Out of Step: A Biography of Frederick William Twort F.R.S. 1877-1950. Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud; Phoenix Mill, Gloucsterhire, UK. OCLC 28025779, ISBN 0-7509-0327-9
 * 6) Klaus, S., W. Krüger, and J. Meyer. 1992. Bakterienviren. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. [German; Bacterial Viruses] OCLC 26765458
 * 7) Ptashne, M. 1992. A Genetic Switch: Phage Lambda and Higher Organisms. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA. OCLC 25713934, ISBN 0-86542-209-5, Google Books
 * 8) Cairns, J., G. Stent, and J. D. Watson. 1992. Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (expanded edition). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 25872929
 * He, N.-B., Z.-T. Si, and M.-X. Yu. 1991. Bacteriophage Images [Chinese]. Science Press, Beijing. OSBN 7-03-0018523-4. OCLC ???

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * Anonymous. 1991. Practical Phage Control. International Dairy Federation, Brussels. OCLC ???


 * van Helvoort, T. 1993. Research Styles in Virus Studies in the Twentieth Century: Controversies and the Formation of Consensus. Doctoral Thesis, University of Limburg. (note that though this is a thesis, it is of sufficient general interest toward addressing issues in the history of bacteriophagy as to warrant inclusion in this list)

Books published in the 1980s

 * 1) Birge, E. A. 1988. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics: An Introduction. Springer-Verlag, New York. OCLC 17838673, ISBN 0-387-96696-X
 * 2) Hobom, G., and R. Rott, eds. 1988. The Molecular Biology of Bacterial Virus Systems. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, Volume 136. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. OCLC 18590320, ISBN 0-387-18513-5
 * 3) Jacob, F. 1988. The Statue Within: An Autobiography. Basic Books, New York. OCLC 17353378, ISBN 0-465-08222-X
 * 4) Jacob, F. La Statue intérieure [French: The Statue Within]. Editions Odile Jacob, Paris
 * 5) Fischer, E. P., and C. Lipson. 1988. Thinking About Science: Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. OCLC 16277429, ISBN 0-393-02508-X
 * 6) Calendar, R. 1988. The Bacteriophages. Volume I Plenum Press, New York. OCLC 18686137
 * 7) Calendar, R. 1988. The Bacteriophages. Volume II Plenum Press, New York. OCLC 17675040
 * 8) Goyal, S. M., C. P. Gerba, and G. Bitton. 1987. Phage Ecology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. OCLC 15654933, ISBN 0-471-82419-4
 * 9) Symonds, N., A. Toussaint, P. van de Putte, and W. V. Howe. 1987. Phage Mu. Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. OCLC 16089280, ISBN 0-87969-306-1
 * 10) Ackermann, H.-W., and M. S. DuBow. 1987. Viruses of Prokaryotes, Volume 1, General Properties of Bacteriophages. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. OCLC 15518646, ISBN 0-8493-6056-0
 * 11) Ackermann, H.-W., and M. S. DuBow. 1987. Viruses of Prokaryotes, Volume 2, Natural Groups of Bacteriophages. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. OCLC ???, ISBN 0-8493-6056-0
 * 12) Ptashne, M. 1986. A Genetic Switch: Gene Control and Phage ?. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA. OCLC 14719427, ISBN 0-86542-315-6
 * 13) Mendzhul, M. I. 1985. Tsianofagi: Virusy Tsianobakterii. Nauk. dumka, Kiev. [Russian; Cyanophages] OCLC 16131273
 * 14) Luria, S. E. 1984. A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York. OCLC 9758798, ISBN 0-06-091213-8 (1985 paperback ISBN 0-465-07831-1)
 * Lin, E. C. C., R. Goldstein, and M. Syvanen. 1984. Bacteria, Plasmids, and Phages: An Introduction to Molecular Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA . OCLC 10182998, ISBN 0-674-58166-0
 * 1) Mathews, C. K., E. M. Kutter, G. Mosig, and P. B. Berget. 1983. Bacteriophage T4. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC. OCLC 9622410, ISBN 0-914826-56-5
 * 2) Hendrix, R. W., J. W. Roberts, F. W. Stahl, and R. A. Weisberg. 1983. Lambda II. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. OCLC 9556019, ISBN 0-87969-150-6
 * 3) Birge, E. A. 1981. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics: An Introduction. Springer-Verlag, New York. OCLC 7248504, ASIN B000ICBYWI
 * 4) DuBow, M. 1981. Bacteriophage Assembly: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Bacteriophage Assembly, Asilomar, California, September 14-17, 1980. A.R. Liss, New York. OCLC 7555738, ISBN 0-8451-0064-5
 * 5) Randall, L. L., and L. Philipson. 1980. Virus Receptors part 1 Bacterial Viruses. Chapman and Hall, London and New York. OCLC 8409813

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * Smith-Keary, P. F. 1988. Genetic Elements in Escherichia coli. MacMillan Education Ltd., London. OCLC ???, ISBN 0-333-44268-7
 * Sorber, C. A., and S. W. Funderburg. 1983. Bacteriophages as Indicators of Human Enteric Viruses in Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment. Univ of Texas at Austin Center. OCLC ???, ISBN 99930-60-64-X
 * ??? 1983. Cloning with Bacteriophage. ???, ??? OCLC ???
 * ??? 1982. Bakteriofagi: Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov. ???, ??? [language; title in English] OCLC 18836533
 * Desjardins, P. R., and G. B. Olson. 1983. Viral Control of Nuisance Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae). II. Cyanophage Strains, Stability on Phages and Hosts, and Effects of Environmental Factors on Phage-Host Interactions. California Water Resource Center, University of California, Davis, CA. OCLC ???

Books published in the 1970s

 * 1) Ratner, V.A., ed. 1979. Matematicheskie Modeli Molekuliyarno-Geneticheskikh Sistem Upravleniya. [Russian; Mathematical Models of Molecular Genetic Regulatory Systems]. Ed. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Novosibirsk, Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov, Moscow. OCLC 7733759
 * 2) Stahl, F. W. 1979. Genetic Recombination: Thinking About it in Phage and Fungi. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco. OCLC 4956846, ISBN 0-7167-1037-4
 * 3) Pulverer, G., P. B. Heczko, and G. Peters. 1979. Phage-Typing of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference, Cologne, September 16-18, 1977. G. Fischer, Stuttgart. OCLC 5105577
 * 4) Denhardt, D. T., D. Dressler, and D. S. Ray. 1978. The Single-Stranded DNA Phages. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 4491528, ISBN 0-87969-122-0
 * 5) Fraenkel-Conrat, H., and R. R. Wagner. 1976. Comprehensive Virology: Reproduction of Bacterial DNA Viruses. Plenum Press, New York. OCLC 2331482, 0-306-35147-1
 * 6) Primrose, S. B. 1976. Bacterial Transduction. Meadowfield Press Ltd., Durham, England. OCLC 3857517, ISBN 0-904095-23-1
 * 7) Winkler, U., W. Rüger, and W. Wackernagel. 1976. Bacterial, Phage and Molecular Genetics. An Experimental Course, 2nd ed. Springer, Berlin. OCLC 2121428, ISBN 0-387-07602-6
 * 8) Fraenkel-Conrat, H., and R. R. Wagner. 1976. Comprehensive Virology: Regulation and Genetics of Bacterial DNA Viruses. Plenum Press, New York. OCLC 35284451, ISBN 0-306-35148-X
 * 9) Douglas, J. 1975. Bacteriophages. p.77-133. Chapman and Hall, London. OCLC 1176725
 * 10) Zinder, N. D. 1975. RNA Phages. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 1582488, ISBN 0-87969-109-3
 * 11) Buczowski, Z., and H. Rische. 1974. Lysotypie und andere spezielle epidemiologische Laboratoriumsmethoden. [German & English; Phage Typing and Other Special Epidemiological Laboratory Methods]. Gustav-Fischer-Verlag, Jena, Germany. OCLC ???
 * 12) Gasser, F. 1974. Microbiologie générale, Volume 1. Bactéries et Bactériophages. [French; Bacteria and Bacteriophages]. Ediscience, /McGraw-Hill, Paris OCLC ???
 * 13) King, R. C. 1974. Handbook of Genetics: Bacteria, Bacteriophages, and Fungi. Plenum Press, New York. OCLC ???, ISBN 0-306-37611-3
 * 14) Krzywy, T., and S. Slopek. 1974. Morfologia i ultrastruktura bakteriofagów Shigella i Klebsiella. Polish Medical Publishers, Warsaw. [Polish; Morphology and Ultrastructure of Shigella and Klebsiella bacteriophages] OCLC 6943982
 * 15) Champe, S. P. 1974. Phage. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, PA. OCLC 980240
 * 16) Dalton, A. J., and F. Haguenau. 1973. Ultrastructure of Animal Viruses and Bacteriophages. An Atlas. Academic Press, New York. OCLC 762216, ASIN B0006C4EEA
 * 17) Poglazov, B. F. 1973. Morphogenesis of T-Even Bacteriophages. Monographs in Developmental Biology, Volume 7, ed.-in-chief A. Wolsky. S. Karger, New York. ISBN 3-805-1645-2. OCLC ???, ISBN 3-8055-1645-2
 * 18) Winkler, U., W. Rüger and W. Wackernagel. 1972. Bakterien-, Phagen- und Molekulargenetik. [German; Bacterial, Phage and Molecular Genetics]. Springer, Berlin
 * 19) Mathews, C. K. 1971. Bacteriophage Biochemistry. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. OCLC 136326, ISBN 0-8412-0288-5
 * 20) Hershey, A. D. 1971. The Bacteriophage Lambda. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, OCLC 220264
 * 21) Snustad, D. P., and D. S. Dean. 1971. Genetics Experiments with Bacterial Viruses. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco. OCLC 333991, ISBN 0-7167-0161-8
 * 22) Tomizawa, J.-I., ed. 1971. Virulent Phage (Selected Papers in Biochemistry, Volume 1). University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, and University Park Press, Baltimore, MD. OCLC 208390, ISBN 0-8391-0612-2
 * 23) Tomizawa, J.-I., ed. Bacterial Genetics and Temperate Phage (Selected Papers in Biochemistry, Volume 2). University Park Press, Baltimore, MD. OCLC 200390, ISBN 0-8391-0611-4
 * 24) Hayes, W. 1970. The Genetics of Bacteria and their Viruses: Studies in Basic Genetics and Molecular Biology. Wiley, New York. OCLC 4655740, ASIN B000H5C8WG
 * 25) Gabrilovitch I. 1970. Lysogeniya [Russian;Lysogeny]. Izdadelstvo Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
 * 26) Tikhonenko, A. S. 1970. Ultrastructure of Bacterial Viruses. Plenum Press, New York. OCLC 14492588, ISBN 0-306-30421-X

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * Desjardins, P. R., M. B. Barkley, S. A. Swiecki, and S. N. West. 1978. Viral Control of blue-green algae. California Water Resource Center, University of California, OCLC ???
 * ??? 1978. Bakteriofagi i Ikh Ispol'zovanie v Veterinarnoi Praktike. ???, ??? [Russian; Bacteriophages and Their Utilization in Veterinary Practice] OCLC 4111249
 * ??? 1977. Gene Expression V. 3 Plasmids and Phages. ???, ??? OCLC 13187199
 * ??? 1972. Saikin Faji Iden Jikkenho. ???, ??? [Japanese; Experimental Methods in Bacteriophage Genetics] OCLC 14420642

Books published in the 1960s

 * 1) Gabrilovitch IM. 1968.Bakteriophage techniques [Russian]. Izdadelstvo Vychzyshaya Shkola, Minsk, Belarus
 * 2) Hayes, W. 1968. The Genetics of Bacteria and their Viruses. Wiley, New York. OCLC 5628
 * 3) Tikhonenko, A. S. 1968. Ultrastruktura Virusov Bakterii. [Russian; Ultrastructure of Bacterial Viruses]. Izdadelstvo "Nauka", Moscow. OCLC 14492588
 * 4) Raettig, H. 1967. Bakteriophagie 1957-1965 (Bacteriophagy 1957-1965). G. Fischer, Stuttgart. [German and English] OCLC 14503598
 * 5) Cairns, J., G. Stent, and J. D. Watson. 1966. Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 712215
 * 6) Stent, G. S. 1965. Molekulyarnaya Biologiya Virusov Bakterii. [Russian; Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses]. Izdadelstvo "MIR", Moscow. OCLC 55892813
 * 7) Gani, J. 1965. Stochastic Models For Bacteriophage. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. OCLC 279694
 * 8) Hayes, W. 1964. The Genetics of Bacteria and their Viruses. Wiley, New York. OCLC 559954
 * 9) Stent, G. S. 1963. Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses. WH Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA. OCLC 268815
 * 10) Geissler, E. 1962. Bakteriophagen, Objekte der Modernen Genetik. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin. [German; Bacteriophages, Objects of the Modern Genetics] OCLC 14607452
 * 11) Pekhov, A. P. 1962. Elektronnomikroskopicheskoe issledovanie bakterii i fagov. ???, ??? [Russian; Electron Microscopic Study of Bacteria and Phage] OCLC 14607218
 * 12) Stent, G. S. 1960. Papers on Bacterial Viruses. Little, Brown and Co., Boston. OCLC 485853

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * ??? 1961. Bakteriofagi. ???, ??? [language; Bacteriophage] OCLC 18358144

Books published in the 1950s

 * 1) Adams, M. H. 1959. Bacteriophages. Interscience, New York. OCLC 326505
 * Ho, N. B., Z. T. Si, and M. X. Yu. 1959. Bacteriophages from China. An Electron Microscopical Atlas. Science Press, Beijing. OCLC ???
 * 1) Hercik, F. 1959. Biophysik der Bakteriophagen. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin. [German; Biophysics of Bacteriophages] OCLC 15258981
 * 2) Burnet, F. M., and W. M. Stanley. 1959. The Viruses: Biochemical, Biological and Biophysical Properties: Plant and Bacterial Viruses. Academic Press, New York. OCLC 326764
 * 3) Raettig, H. 1958. Bakteriophagie, 1917 bis 1956; Zugleich en Vorschlag zur Dokumentation Wissenschaftlicher Literatur. G. Fischer, Stuttgart. [German; Bacteriophagy 1917 to 1956; At the Same Time a suggestion on the Documentation of Scientific Literature] OCLC 4309311
 * 4) Terada, M. 1956. Studies on Bacterial Viruses. Naya Publishing Co., Tokyo. OCLC 1064505
 * 5) Jacob, F. 1954. Les bactéries lysogènes et la notion de provirus. Masson, Paris. [French; The Lysogenic Bacteria and the Concept of the Provirus] OCLC 5780525
 * 6) International Union of Biological Sciences. 1953. Le Bactériophage: Premier Colloque International. Institut Pasteur, Paris. [French; The Bacteriophage: First International Conference] OCLC 11662838
 * 7) Evans, E. A. 1952. Biochemical Studies of Bacterial Viruses. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. OCLC 3195879
 * 8) Hedén, C.-G. 1951. Studies of the infection of E. coli B with the bacteriophage T2. Acta. Path. Microbiol. Scand. supplement 8:1-126. OCLC 14670314
 * 9) Lederberg, J. 1951. Papers in Microbial Genetics: Bacteria and Bacterial Viruses. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. OCLC 2472829

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * ??? 1958. Bakteriofagi i ikh primenenie v meditsinskoi praktike. ???, ??? [language; title in English] OCLC 14614699
 * ??? 1950. Biologicheskie Antiseptiki: Bakteriofagi, Antitela, Antibiotik. ???, ??? [language; title in English] OCLC 14672517
 * Adams, M. H., J. H. jr. Comroe, and E. H. Venning. 1950. Methods of Study of Bacterial Viruses. Year Book Publishers, Chicago. OCLC 67599839

Books published in the 1940s

 * 1) Hammarström, E. 1949. Phage-Typing of Shigella sonnei. Stockholm. OCLC 5140885
 * 2) Lilleengen, K. 1948. Typing of Salmonella typhimurium by means of bacteriophage. The Bacteriological Hygenical Department of the Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm. OCLC 14665054
 * 3) Steinmann, J. 1946. Le Bactériophage: Sa Nature et son Emploi Thérapeutique. K, Bâle. [French; The Bacteriophage: Its Nature and its Therapeutic Employment] OCLC 14735726
 * Flu, P. C. 1946. The Bacteriophage: A Historical and Critical Survey of 25 Years Research. Universitaire Pers Leiden, Leiden. OCLC 14744384

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to assertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * ??? 1948. Ultravirusi, rikecie i bakteriofagi. ???, ??? [language; title in English] OCLC 14661068
 * ??? 1945. Anaerobnye Bakteriofagi. ???, ??? [language; title in English] OCLC 14736765
 * Raiga, A. 1941. Traitement des Plaies de Guerre par le Bactériophage de d'Hérelle . Legrand & Bertrand, Paris. [French; Treatment of the wounds of war by the bacteriophage of Hérelle] OCLC 14725592

Books published in the 1930s

 * 1) Northrop, J. H. 1939. Crystalline Enzymes. The Chemistry of Pepsin, Trypsin, and Bacteriophage. Columbia University Press, New York. OCLC 2387455
 * 2) d'Hérelle, F. 1938. Le Phénomène de la Guérison dans les Maladies Infectieuses. Masson et cie, Paris. [French; The phenomenon of the Cure in the Infectious Diseases] OCLC 5784382
 * 3) d'Hérelle, F. 1933. Le Bactériophage et ses Applications Thérapeutiques. Doin, Paris. [French; The Bacteriophage and its Therapeutic Applications] OCLC 14749145
 * 4) Gardner, A. D. 1931. Microbes and Ultramicrobes: An Account of Bacteria, Viruses and the Bacteriophage. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. OCLC 3180401
 * 5) d'Hérelle, F., and G. H. Smith. 1930. The Bacteriophage and its Clinical Application. p.165-243. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois. OCLC 347451

Books published in the 1920s

 * 1) d'Hérelle, F. 1929. Études sur le Choléra. Impr. A. Serafini, Alexandrie. [French; Studies on Asiatic Cholera] OCLC 15864352
 * 2) Schuurman, C. J. 1927. Der Bakteriophage, eine Ultramikrobe; das D'Herellesche Phänomen. Rohrmoser, Bonn. [German; The Bacteriophage, an Ultramicrobe: the D'Hérelle phenomenon] OCLC 14743783
 * 3) d'Hérelle, F. 1926. Le Bactériophage et son Comportement. Masson et Cie, Paris. [French; The Bacteriophage and its Behavior] OCLC 11981307
 * 4) d'Hérelle, F., and G. H. Smith. 1926. The Bacteriophage and Its Behavior. The Williams &Wilkins Co., Baltimore. OCLC 2394374
 * 5) Hauduroy, P. 1925. Le Bactériophage de d'Hérelle. Librairie Le François, Paris. [French; The Bacteriophage of d'Hérelle] OCLC 17294190
 * 6) d'Hérelle, F. 1924. Drie Voordrachten over het Verschijnsel der Bacteriophagie. J.B. Wolters, Groningen. [Dutch; Three presentations concerning the phenomenon of the bacteriophage] OCLC 17864544
 * 7) d'Hérelle, F., and G. H. Smith. 1924. Immunity in Natural Infectious Disease. Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore. OCLC 586303
 * 8) d'Hérelle, F. 1922. Der Bakteriophage und seine Bedeutung für die Immunität; nach einem erweiterten und verbesserten. F. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig. [German; The Bacteriophage and its Meaning for Immunity: toward an extended and improved text of the author's translation] OCLC 36920828
 * 9) d'Hérelle, F. 1922. The Bacteriophage: Its Role in Immunity. Williams and Wilkins Co./Waverly Press, Baltimore. OCLC 14789160, ASIN B000H6G02O, B000H6EK2G, Google Books
 * 10) d'Hérelle, F. 1921. Le Bactériophage: Son Rôle dans l'Immunité. Masson et cie, Paris. [French; The Bacteriophage: Its Role in Immunity] OCLC 14794182

The following have not yet been sufficiently scrutinized to ascertain that they technically are books (e.g., are not theses), are generally available, and are sufficiently about phage to be included in the above list:


 * d'Hérelle, F., R. H. Malone, and M. N. Lahiri. 1930. Studies on Asiatic Cholera. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. OCLC 25936856
 * d'Hérelle, F. 1923. Les Défenses de l'Organisme. Flammarion, Paris. [French; The Defenses of the Organism] OCLC 11127665