User:Newmanbe/Public domain library

%X Public domain sources in my personal library %X for adding to or for proofreading Wikisource. %X Message me on my talk page %X if you want me to do something with any of these %X (ahead of my schedule of eventually, if ever at all).

%A John Carey (ed) %T Eyewitness to History %I Avon Books %C New York %D 1987 %X First hand accounts of various events. Have to worry about translations. %X (pub. Author's life + xyrs or <1923 - translations) %X First published in Great Britan as \fIThe Faber Book of Reportage\fR

%A Bob Blaisdell %A Paul Negri (eds) %T Imagist Poetry: An Anthology %I Dover Thrift Editions %C Mineola, New York %D 1999 %X All the works in it are (pub. Authors life + xyrs or <1923)

%A William Shakespeare %T The Tragedy of Julius Caesar %E Barbara A. Mowat %E Paul Werstine %I Washington Square Press %C New York %D 1992 %X All public domain except the notes, etc, (pub. Author's life + 100yrs)

%A Robert DiYanni (ed) %T Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions %I McGraw-Hill %C New York %D 1994 %X Modern apparently includes those dead way before 1905 (pub. Author's life + 100 or <1923)

%A Robert Louis Stevenson %T Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde %I Golden Press %C Racine, Wisconsin %D 1978 %X Public domain (pub. Author's life + 100yrs)

%A Robert Louis Stevenson %T Kidnapped %I Puffin Classics %C London %D 1994 %X Public domain (Author's life + 100yrs)

%A David Madden (ed) %T Pocketful of Poems %I Vintage Verse %C Australia %D 2002 %X Partially public domain (pub. Author's life + xyrs or <1923)

%A Mark Twain %T The Adventures of Tom Sawyer %I Bantam Classics %C New York %D 1981 %X Public domain except afterword etc. (Author's life + 70yrs and <1923)

%A Paul M. Angle (ed) %T By These Words %I Rand McNally & Company %C New York %D 1954 %X At first I thought this was public domain (minus some of the newer works and annotations) %X Then I saw that "spelling and capitalization have been made to conform to modern %X practice, and punctuation has been revised where necessary to achieve clarity and %X readability." Has a reference to the "exact transcripts of the document" though.

%A Nesta H. Webster %T World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization %I Constable and Company %C London %D 1921 %X 100% public domain (<1923)

%A Gershom Bradford II %T The Whys and Wherefores of Navigation %I D. van Nostrand Company %C New York %D 1918 %X 100% public domain (<1923), I think this is actually from 1918, not just a reprint

%A Henry van Dyke %T The Mansion %I Harper and Brothers %C New York %D 1911 %X 100% public domain (<1923 and Life + 70), printed in 1911

%T Collected Stories by O. Henry %I Bantam Books %C New York %D 1991 %X Public domain except introduction etc. (<1923, Life + 100)

%A Isaac Norhiemr (ed.) %T Book of Jasher %I New Christian Crusade Church %C Metairie, Louisiana %D 1840 %X Public domain (<1923, Life + 100) %X I am not sure when the book itself was published (it would probably be PD-US-no-notce, though)

%A Stephen Crane %T The Red Badge of Courage %I Airmont Books %C New York %D 1962 %X Public domain except for "special contents" (e.g. introduction) (Life + 100)

%T King James Bible %I Tyndale House Publishers %C Wheaton, Illinois %D 1979 %X Public domain except for "special contents" (Life + 100)

%T Complete Poems of Robert Frost %I Holt, Rinehard and Winton %C New York %D 1964 %X Works first published before 1923 are public domain