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• Authors and publishers -- Austria
• Authors and publishers -- England
• Authors and publishers -- Fiction
• Authors and publishers -- France
• Authors and publishers -- Germany
• Authors and publishers -- Great Britain
• Authors and publishers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Authors and publishers -- Hungary
• Authors and publishers -- Illinois
• Authors and publishers -- Italy
• Authors and publishers -- Massachusetts
• Authors and publishers -- New York (State)
• Authors and publishers -- Periodicals
• Authors and publishers -- Scotland
• Authors and publishers -- Spain
• Authors and publishers -- United States

• Author and publisher
• Authors and publishers -- Law and legislation
• Publishers and authors
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• Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, and How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available (c2015), by Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, and Brianna Schofield (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)
• A Battle of the Books, Recorded by an Unknown Writer, For the Use of Authors and Publishers (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1870), by Gail Hamilton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Pages, pictures, and print; a book in the making. (Harcourt, Brace, 1958), by Joanna Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's fight with the pirates and the problems of the transmission of his text (A. Moring, limited, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publishers and authors. ([London] : Printed for the author. ; Published by John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square., 1867., 1867), by James Spedding and John Russell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The publisher (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Robert Sterling Yard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Author hunting by an old literary sportsman; memories of years spent mainly in publishing, 1897-1925 (Coward-McCann, 1934), by Grant Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of Barabbas, 1884-1934 (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935), by George H. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• A battle of the books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers. (Printed at the Riverside press, for sale by Hurd and Hougthon. New York, 1870), by Gail Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The commercial side of literature. (Harper & brothers, 1926), by Michael Joseph and Grant M. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about publishing (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927), by Stanley Unwin and Ferris Greenslet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shanghai, its Mixed court and Council : material relating to the history of the Shanghai Municipal council and the history, practice and statistics of the International mixed court : Chinese modern law and Shanghai municipal land regulations and bye-laws governing the life in the settlement (North-China daily news & herald, limited, 1925), by Anatol M. Kotenev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A practical guide for authors in their relations with publishers and printers (Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1907), by William Stone Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about publishing. by Stanley Unwin ... (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1926), by Stanley Unwin and Ferris Greenslet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The author, publisher, printer complex. (Williams & Wilkins Co., 1949), by Robert Sutherland Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's fight with the pirates and the problems of the transmission of his text (The University press, 1920), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contacts (Harper & Brothers, 1935), by Curtis Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das wahre Gesicht des Verlag Buchhandels. (C. E. Poeschel, 1927), by Stanley Unwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide de l'écrivain ... (Edition de la "Revue des independants, 1918), by Robert Morche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das XXVte [Fünf und zwanzigste] Jahr S. Fischer Verlag, 1886-1911. (Berlin, 1911), by S. Fischer Verlag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A London book window (John Lane, 1924), by James Milne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wieland und die Weidmannsche buchhandlung. Zur geschichte deutscher literatur und deutschen buchhandels. (Weidmannsche buchhandlung, 1871), by Karl Buchner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Author hunting (Coward-McCann, inc., 1934), by Grant Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The author, publisher, printer complex. (The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1940), by Robert Sutherland Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie (Hachette, 1861), by Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The methods of publishing (Pub. for the Incorporated society of authors, by H. Glaisher, 1890), by Samuel Squire Sprigge and London Incorporated society of authors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe und seine Verleger. (Englert & Schlosser, 1916), by Otto Friedrich Vaternahm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A battle of the books (Printed at the Riverside Press, for sale by Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1870), by Mary Abigail Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• From manuscript to bookstall : the cost of printing and binding books, with the various methods of publishing them explained and discussed (Southam & Co., 1894), by Arthur Dudley Southam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The methods of publishing. Addenda (H. Cox, 1898), by Samuel Squire Sprigge, George Herbert Thring, and Incorporated Society of Authors (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der verlagsvertrag und die licenz zur öffentlichen aufführung ... (Druck von W. Pilz, 1900), by Hermann Ichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic survey of the book industry, 1930-1931. (National association of book publishers, 1931), by O. H. Cheney and National Association of Book Publishers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The search for a publisher; or, Counsels for a young author ... (A.W. Bennett, 1859), by Alfred W. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die preussische gesetzgebung in bezug auf urheberrecht, buchhandel und presse. Zusammenstellung aller auf diesen gebieten zur zeit gültigen gesetze und verordnungen nebst gerichtlichen entscheidungen (E.H. Schroeder (H. Kaiser), 1862), by Prussia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schriftsteller, Verleger und Publikum : eine Ruundfrage : Zehnjahreskatalog (Der Verlag, 1914), by Germany) Georg Müller Verlag (Munich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pflichten des Verlegers nach dem Gesetz über das Verlagsrecht vom 19. Juli 1901 (E. Rentsch, 1912), by Fritz Oppenheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addenda to The methods of publishing (Published for the Inc. Society of Authors, by Horace Cox, 1902), by George Herbert Thring (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Battle of the Books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers: To the first for doctrine, to the second for reproof, to both for correction and for instruction in righteousness, by Gail Hamilton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Schriftsteller und buchhändler im alten Rom. (G. Fock, 1885), by Louis Haenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schriftsteller und Buchhändler in Rom. (G. Fock, 1885), by Louis Haenny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Il progetto di legge sulla stampa in Austria ... ([Torino, 1903), by Pietro Lanza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New Grub Street : a novel (Smith, Elder, 1891), by George Gissing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das urheberrecht an werken der literatur und der tonkunst : das verlagsrecht, und das urheberrecht an werken der bildenen künste und der photographie. (G. J. Göschen, 1908), by J. Schlittgen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authorship in the days of Johnson; being a study of the relation between author, patron, publisher, and public, 1726-1780 (R. Holden & co. ltd., 1927), by Arthur Simons Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The grievances between authors & publishers (Field & Tuer, 1887), by Society of Authors (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Practical Guide for Authors in Their Relations with Publishers and Printers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1907), by William Stone Booth (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die press-prozesse gegen die redakteure deutscher zeitung in Süd-Ungarn. ([Schenk], 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Intorno a l'imputabilità presunta del gerente - esegesi dell'articolo 47 de l'editto su la stampa e critica sopra una recentissima giurisprudenza al riguardo. (G. Errico, 1903), by Ernesto Brangi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Se il diritto di firmare i singoli esemplari del libro spetti all'autore anche quando non sia stato preveduto e consentito nel contratto di edizione. (Unione tip.-edit. torinese, 1907), by Luigi di Franco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un caso interessante di violazione del contratto di edizione (causa Vivante - Hoepli) ... (S. Lapi, 1902), by Eduardo Piola-Caselli, Cesare Vivante, and Italy) Hoepli (Firm : Milan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Editor (partial serial archives)
• The Author, contrib. by Society of Authors (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)

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