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%X Public domain sources in my personal library
%X for adding to or for proofreading Wikisource.
%X Message me on my [[User_talk:newmanbe|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