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• The Loved One (c1948; this edition 1965), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Day of the Locust (c1939), by Nathanael West (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Cinema City (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1923), by C. Ranger Gull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• Souls for Sale (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1922), by Rupert Hughes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oil! (c1927), by Upton Sinclair (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Shoot! (Si Gira) The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• 54 (London: W. Heinemann, c2005), by Wu Ming (Writers collective), trans. by Shaun Whiteside (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Breaking Into the Movies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1921), by John Emerson and Anita Loos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• What's Really Going On in Hollywood!, by John W. Cones (HTML at homevideo.net)

• From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood (Jewish Role in American Life v14; c2017), ed. by Michael Renov, Vincent Brook, Lisa Ansell, and Steven Joseph Ross (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Cinema Canada (partial serial archives)

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Motion Picture News Blue Book (partial serial archives)

• European Cinema: Face to Face With Hollywood (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2005), by Thomas Elsaesser (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006), by Priya Jaikumar (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006), by Priya Jaikumar (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market, 1907-1934 (London: BFI Publishing, c1985), by Kristin Thompson (PDF with commentary at davidbordwell.net)

• Ruth Fielding Treasure Hunting: or, A Moving Picture That Became Real (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1923), by Alice B. Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boxoffice (partial serial archives)
• The Reel Journal (partial serial archives)
• Variety (partial serial archives)

• Screen Guide for Americans, by Ayn Rand (PDF page images at MSU)
• Hollywood Reds Are "On the Run"! (Hollywood, CA: Cinema Educational Guild, 1949), by Myron C. Fagan (PDF page images at MSU)
• Report on Blacklisting (2 volumes; New York: Fund for the Republic, c1956), by John Cogley
  • Volume I (Movies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Radio - Television): multiple formats at archive.org
• Red Stars in Hollywood: Their Helpers, Fellow Travelers, and Co-Conspirators (St. Louis: Patriotic Tract Society, ca. 1948), by Myron C. Fagan (PDF page images at MSU)
• For Justice and Peace, by Wives of the Hollywood Ten (PDF page images at MSU)

• From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood (Jewish Role in American Life v14; c2017), ed. by Michael Renov, Vincent Brook, Lisa Ansell, and Steven Joseph Ross (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google

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