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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)

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• 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)

• 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

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

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