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Stories by Foreign Authors

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Volumes proofread and transcluded. MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Missing volumes in Stories by Foreign Authors:

• Polish-Greek-Belgian-Hungarian
• German I

Mpaa (talk) 09:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

• Mpaa: German I (pdf), Polish—Greek—Belgian—Hungarian (pdf). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:28, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

This section was archived on a request by: 16:24, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Latter-Day Psalms (1914) by Olaf Stapledon is the only work of his that seems to be PD. Prosfilaes (talk) 22:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

• Prosfilaes: File:Latter-Day Psalms.pdf. I can create an index as well, if you’d like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:33, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Scarface (1930 novel)

This section was archived on a request by: 16:25, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Would anyone be able to help in uploading an edition of the original Scarface novel by Armitage Trail (real name: Maurice R. Coons)?

I did some digging earlier, and discovered that the book was never renewed. I have found this edition and this other edition on Internet Archive as borrow books. Both feature covers that would need to be removed, but otherwise they appear to be the original unaltered text. And they make no further claims of copyrighted elements. I know these are not downloadable, but if anyone has these editions we can use them from other scan sources.

I'd like to see it get transcribed. And at worst it is definitively public domain in 2026. SDudley (talk) 01:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Since the author died of a heart attack only 9 months after the book was published, there was likely no one to renew the copyright. I have also checked and found no renewal in the usual databases. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for double checking! There was a new copyright for the book in 1960, but it was only for the new foreword added it seems. SDudley (talk) 02:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

• SDudley: I have ordered the book, it should hopefully come in fairly soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you! That is greatly appreciated. I will not let the contribution go to waste. I will gladly be of help in transcribing. SDudley (talk) 02:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

  • SDudley: Here you go: File:Scarface.pdf. The image on the title page can be extracted from this file: File:Scarface-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:42, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

    Thank you! This is greatly appreciated. And it is nice to have something new to read. :) SDudley (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)