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Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts (Reeve) - Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (fourth edition; Franklin, OH: Editor Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)...

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The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts (Reeve) - The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Complete Guide for All Writers Who are Seeking Avenues for the Publication of Original Manuscripts (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), ed. by James Knapp Reeve and Agnes M. Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)...

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Where and How to Sell Manuscripts (McCourtie) - Where and How to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), ed. by William B. McCourtie (multiple formats at archive.org)...

Organizational Behavior (Bauer) - Organizational Behavior (online edition, c2009), by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan (illustrated HTML with commentary at Flat World Knowledge)...

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Death of President Lincoln (Bush) - Death of President Lincoln: A Sermon, Preached in Grace Church, Orange, N.J., Easter, April 16, 1865 (Orange, NJ: E. Gardner, 1865), by James Smith Bush (multiple formats at archive.org)...

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Introducing Copyright (Hofman) - Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century (Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009), by Julien Hofman (PDF and Epub with commentary at col.org)...

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Knowing and Erring (Kalechofsky) - Knowing and Erring: The Consolations of Error (c1997), by Robert Kalechofsky (HTML with commentary at libertary.com)...

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Sundry Great Gentlemen (Bowen) - Sundry Great Gentlemen: Some Essays in Historical Biography (London: John Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1928), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at Hathi Trust)...

The Draft Program of the Communist International (Trotsky) - The Draft Program of the Communist International: A Criticism of Fundamentals (New York: The Militant, 1929), by Leon Trotsky, contrib. by James Patrick Cannon (page images at Hathi Trust)...

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Patriotic Lady (Bowen) - Patriotic Lady (1935), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

Dickon (Bowen) - Dickon (1929), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

Dark Rosaleen (Bowen) - Dark Rosaleen (1932), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

The Queen's Caprice (Bowen) - The Queen's Caprice (1933), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

The Bishop of Hell, and Other Stories (Bowen) - The Bishop of Hell, and Other Stories (1949 compilation), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

The Last Bouquet (Bowen) - The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales (1933 compilation), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)...

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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning (Sheridan) - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan (stable link)...

Lincoln as the South Should Know Him (Blacknall) - Lincoln as the South Should Know Him (third edition; Raleigh, NC: Manly's Battery Chapter, Children of the Confederacy, ca. 1915), by O. W. Blacknall (multiple formats at archive.org)...

A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. (Little) - A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. (Tuscaloosa, AL: R. E. Rhodes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, ca. 1905), by George Little and James Robert Maxwell (multiple formats at archive.org)...

Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (Confederate States of America) - Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (bound with the Acts and Resolutions of the fourth session; Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861-1862), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)...

Going to Live in Australia (Neilson) - Going to Live in Australia, by Mary Neilson and Mathew Collins (illustrated HTML with commentary at HowTo)...

Getting Into Australia (Collins) - Getting Into Australia, by Mathew Collins (HTML with commentary at HowTo)...

Shattered Crystals (Kanner) - Shattered Crystals (revised electronic edition, 2009), by Mia Amalia Kanner and Eve Rosenzweig Kugler (multiple formats with commentary at shatteredcrystals.net)...

Top scarers - From Jim Thompson to Daphne du Maurier, the author and comedian singles out stories that live up to their genre and genuinely do give readers sleepless nightsAs well as making becoming a household name for his work as a writer and actor in comedy shows such as The Fast Show, Charlie Higson has had a parallel and these days just as stellar career as a writer. After winning acclaim for early, blackly comic crime nove...

A life in books: Tim Waterstone - "I am an enemy of Waterstone's being destroyed. I am not in any way an enemy of Waterstone's being properly led by people who know what they're doing"Tim Waterstone is explaining to me why he has a problem with the word entrepreneur, a distaste that I've seen ascribed to him on several occasions but find difficult to understand. How else might you describe a man who conjured, out of a redundancy package of a few thousand pounds, a retail operation that changed the face of British bookselling, and with ...

Poet hijacks Atlanta streets with haiku advertising campaign - Artist satirises roadside adverts by nailing his poetry to traffic lights and streetlamps across the cityArtist John Morse has been peppering Atlanta's road intersections with haikus, nailing his poetry to traffic lights and streetlamps in an attempt to provide commuters with "poetic snapshots of the urban condition".Mimicking the usual advertisements for weight loss and health insurance, Morse's ...

The serpentine story of Arab dance - Wendy Buonaventura looks back at the roots of Arab dance, its impact on Western society and the place of dancers in the Middle East today...

Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist - Australian novelist could be first three-times winner, as fancied David Mitchell and controversial Christos Tsiolkas miss outThe Australian novelist Peter Carey was hailed as a modern day Dickens after he was shortlisted for what could be an unprecedented third Man Booker pri...

Call off the hounds: the Not the Booker prize vote stands - After polling disarray to rival the coming of the ConDems, the collective has opted to stick with the original shortlist. Time to actually do some reading!Well, that was bracing! Calling our own voting system and the legitimacy of our competition into question was always going to be risky. And, as many have you have pointed out, select...

Bronx bookworm wins New York reader of the summer crown - Brittany Lopez ? whose favourite book was Vampire Kisses ? read 325 books and comics over a three-month periodAfter churning through over three books a day for the last three months, a 14-year-old from the Bronx has been named New York's reader of the summer.Brittany Lopez read 325 books ? a mix of novels and com...

PD James fights to save Public Lending Right scheme from chop - Crime writer and Society of Authors president urges Jeremy Hunt to maintain funding writers receive when libraries loan out their booksCrime novelist PD James has written to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, calling his attention to the thousands of authors who are fighting for the money they receive from library loans of their work to be spared from further cuts.A letter from Baroness...

Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher - Actress and baking star creates 'assault on the senses' in honour of the thriller writer's 120th anniversaryIt's death by chocolate made (sort of) literal: a murderously rich chocolate cake has been created by cake maker and actress Jane Asher to mark what would have been the 120th birthday of queen of crime Agatha Christie.Asher's cake was inspired by a passage in Christie's 50th novel, the Miss Marple tale A Murder is Anno...

Blair's Journey breaks sales records - The former prime minister's memoir sold more than 92,000 copies in its first four days on sale, comfortably outdoing figures for Peter Mandelson's rival accountDespite predictions that Peter Mandelson beating him into print would damage sales of Tony Blair's autobiography, the former prime minister's book has trounced his erstwhile spin doctor's to become one of the fastest-selling memoirs ever ? presumably pretty solid consolation for having ha...

Jimmy Page's autobiography: £445 is a whole lotta money to pay - Led Zeppelin fans will have to stump up £445 for guitarist's leather-bound, silk-wrapped and autographed 512-page memoirThere are only three things necessary to be a Jimmy Page superfan: access to the internet, a sturdy coffee table ? and £445 in spare cash. Put the three together and you too could be the proud owner of the leather-bound, silk-wrapped and autographed 512-page collector's edition of Jimmy Page By Jimmy Page, the long-awaited autobiography by the famously ...

Fernando Fernández obituary - Spanish artist who filled the pages of 1950s British comicsIn the late 1950s, Fernando Fernández, who has died aged 70, was one of the youngest of a group of Spanish artists working for the British comics publisher Fleetway Publications. Only 17 when his first strips were published, Fernández filled the pages of British comics for the next decade, though he did so anonymously.In the UK, he earned his reputation for his work on Fleetway's Air Ace Picture Library, the romance comics Valentine, Marilyn and Roxy, and a variety of book cov...

Are you improperly addressed? | Open thread - Are you happy with your street name ? the residents of Lustful Court aren't ? and, if not, what name would you prefer?Residents of Lustful Court in Macon, Georgia, are getting rather tired of people laughing at their address and teasing them about what may or may n...

Stephen King's The Dark Tower gets the green light from on high - Universal has opted to bring King's seven-novel epic to celluloid. But should Ron Howard direct?Recent years have contrived to restrict the number of projects which fall into the category "cannot be done". It's not so long ago that JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was "unfilmable", and the idea of a ...

A poetry plea: which modern collections would you recommend to a novice? - Hearing Seamus Heaney reading his work has affirmed in me a desire to add to my scant collection of poetry booksI might spend much of my life reading (having just moved house, I'm currently drowning in a sea of book boxes, un-put-up shelves and towering piles) but I am not much of a one for live performances from writers. I'd generally rather sit quietly and absorb on my own, I don't feel I need to hear it from the author's mouth. Last month, though, that changed, after I went...

Superheroes are misunderstood | Luke Evans - To call Batman a bad role model for boys because he is 'socially unjust' is to miss the complexity of such superheroesAfter surveying 674 boys aged four to 18, Professor Sharon Lamb of the University of Massachusetts criticised the narrow depictions of masculinity in recent movie a...

HMV blames World Cup for sales slump - HMV shares down 10% on poor performance by entertainment and book storesHMV blamed the World Cup for a slump in sales across its entertainment and book stores that send its shares crashing by 10% this morning.The high street chain said that takings had suffered this summer because publishers held back new books and computer games, giving it less opportunity to lure shoppers away from the action in South Africa.Chief executive Simon Fox insisted that the danger...

Jimmy Page to charge £445 for autobiography - Led Zeppelin guitarist's forthcoming memoir will be a 'visual documentary' of his life consisting only of photographs ? and a hefty price tagJimmy Page is to publish his autobiography, and not only does it lack deep insights, funny stories and the darkest secrets of Led Zeppelin ? it acosts £445. The guitarist says his new book, a 500-page "visual documentary" consisti...

World's most expensive book comes up for sale - Sotheby's to auction Audubon's Birds of America and Shakespeare's First Folio from estate of late Lord HeskethBy any standards they form part of a truly extraordinary library: a rare copy of the world's most expensive book, perhaps the most important book in English literature, a fascinating cache of letters from Elizabeth I to the jailor of Mary Queen of Scots, and more...

Steve Bell on Tony Blair's ill-fated book signings - Tony Blair has been forced to cancel another event marking the launch of his memoirs after campaigners planned to protestSteve Bell...

Credit where credit's due - There are times in bridge when you have to acknowledge your opponent's skillUnless you are someone who does not care for the beauty of bridge, there are times when you have to admire an opponent who has outperformed you when you appear to have done something good for your side. That was my position on today's deal from a US Team Trial 10 years ago. North-South vulnerable, dealer South.I held the West cards at one table, and South opened the bidding with an ostensibly strong no trump. You may think his hand looks more like a weak no trump...

Blackwell book chain owner plans to hand firm over to staff - ? Toby Blackwell says he intends to emulate John Lewis ? Employee-owned firms do better in slump, study findsThe privately owned book chain Blackwell has outlined plans to copy the way that the John Lewis department store does business ? and hand ownership of the company over to its 900 staff.The 130-year-old academic books specialist is closing down its Oxford head office and...

Video: Stephen Frears and the cast of Tamara Drewe: 'We are the middle classes and we don't like ourselves' - Stephen Frears, Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig tell Xan Brooks about embracing the bucolic with their film adaptation of Posy Simmonds's Guardian cartoonHenry BarnesXan Brooks...

London film festival: what price premieres? | Catherine Shoard - This year's...

The curse of swearing in children's books - Squeamishness about exposing young eyes to filthy language has produced some memorably mealy-mouthed evasionsSwearing in children's books, and even in books for teenagers, used to be pure anathema.  SE Hinton's 1967 young adult novel The Outsiders, for instance, an emotionally-charged account of youthful gangs clashing in Tulsa, features no language more colourful than "Glory!", "Shoot!" or a very occasional "Hell!" &nb...

London film festival lineup revealed - ? Mike Leigh, Colin Firth and Anton Corbijn to present films? Danny Boyle and Keira Knightley works already confirmed? David Jason and Rupert Friend to present directorial debuts? No world premieres among gala screenings ? ...

Tech Weekly: The year in games, and Edinburgh Interactive Festival - Join Aleks Krotoski, Keith Stuart and GameBrief.com's Nicholas Lovell on Tech Weekly for a games special.The panel bring you the latest on the 13-year struggle to take Duke Nukem Forever from idea to release ? is a mysogynistic, two-dimensional games character relevant in today's more mature gaming culture? There's also a round-up of the headlines from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival: is 3D a gimmick, and is the games industry suffering from a post-modern identity crisis? And the team look back at 2010 with their business analysis of the UK games industry.Also on this week's show, Jack Arnott speaks with Stephane Gravel, producer at Beenox, who are responsible for the mutli-layered universe in the latest adventure for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.Don't forget to ? Comment below? Mail us at tech@guardian.co.uk? Get our Twitter feed...

Sounds Jewish: September 2010 - Welcome back to a bumper New Year edition of the podcast. In a Sounds Jewish exclusive, the critically acclaimed and now Booker-shortlisted author reads an acerbically funny extract from his latest novel, The Finkler Question. Is his depiction of a fictional Jewish anti-Zionist group as the "ASHamed Jews" fair?Challenging his account is Tony Klug, Middle East analyst and early signatory of Independent Jewish Voices, the group some critics have speculated might be the real-life inspiration for Jacobson's "ASHamed Jews."In this frenzy of festivals ? beginning with Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur ? Jason and Howard take a look at an attempt to reclaim one of those holy days that often gets neglected: ...

Audio: David Grossman: 'Israel is a lofty idea, and it's worth fighting for' - As the great Israeli author David Grossman celebrates the English language publication of his novel To The End Of The Land, he spoke to Jonathan Freedland about the book, a mother's lament for life during a wartime with no end in sight.David GrossmanJonathan FreedlandIain Chambers...

The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fiction - Since it's clearly based on autobiographical events, some have asked whether In a Strange Room is really a novel at all. But like all good fiction what it offers is writer's truthIt happens like this: when you come to the end of the first page of Damon Galgut's superlative novel, In a Strange Room, you read its final sentence twice....

Daily Dose for Thu, Sep 9: The Tender Bar: A Memoir - The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer Reviewed by Kathy from Sheffield, Pennsylvania. ...

Daily Dose for Wed, Sep 8: The Tenth Gift - The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson Reviewed by Rebecca from Opelika, Alabama. ...

Daily Dose for Tue, Sep 7: When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth - When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber Reviewed by Nancy from Portland, Oregon. ...

Daily Dose for Mon, Sep 6: Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More - Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins Reviewed by Rebecca from Manassas, Virginia. ...

Daily Dose for Sun, Sep 5: Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir - Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Dave Mustaine Reviewed by Dave from Portland, Oregon. ...

Daily Dose for Sat, Sep 4: Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine - Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine by Jasper Becker Reviewed by Juanita from New York, New York. ...

Daily Dose for Fri, Sep 3: The Shadow of the Wind - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Reviewed by Anna from Boise, Idaho. ...