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• Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities (c1991), ed. by Charles Bazerman and James G. Paradis (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Complete Caligraph Instructor: or, How to Become Expert in Typewriting (St. Louis: A. J. Barnes, 1890), by Mrs. Arthur J. Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: A Guide to Correct Writing, Showing How to Express Written Thought Plainly, Rapidly, Elegantly and Correctly in Social and Business Life (ninth edition; Chicago: Moses Warren and Co., 1876), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of Documentary Reproduction (full serial archives)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Stencil Duplicated Newspaper (Hood River, OR: The authors, c1941), by Frederick Stuart Knight and Damon Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• University Copyright Policies in ARL Libraries (ARL SPEC Kit #138, 1987), by Kenneth D. Crews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final Report of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, July 31, 1978, by United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (HTML and PDF at digital-law-online.info)

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• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• Anonymity: An Enquiry (Hogarth Essays #12; London: L. and V. Woolf, 1925), by E. M. Forster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Side Lights (London: T. F. Unwin, 1893), by James Runciman, ed. by John F. Runciman, contrib. by Grant Allen and W. T. Stead (Gutenberg text)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, ed. by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)

• (First Person)²: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Kami Day and Michele Eodice
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Edward Storer
  • HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Librivox audio performance

• New Grub Street, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• Dom Casmurro (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1899), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)

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