Public Domain Books

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Books

Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
"1001 words of medium difficulty every student should know"		1932	Harold F. Schory
135000 words spelled and pronounced, together with valuable hints and illustrations for the use of capitals, italics, numerals and compound words		1911	John IT. Bechtel, John Hendricks Bechtel
1600 drill exercises in corrective English		1922	Orville M. Hanna, Joseph S. (Joseph Schimmel) Taylor
20,000 words often mispronounced		1937	William Henry Pinkney Phyfe, Frederick A. Sweet, Maude D. Williams
An A. B. C. of English usage		1937	George Henry Vallins, H. A. (Henry Arthur) Treble
A-B-C of correct speech and the art of conversation		1916	Florence Howe Hall
An ABC of idiom and diction		1937	Muriel Bothwell Carr, John Williams Clark
According to Hoyle		1928	Havilah Babcock
Accountants' writing		1948	John Mantle Clapp
Achievement in the elimination of errors in the mechanics of written expression throughout the junior-senior high school		1927	Walter H. Potter, Frank Charles Touton
Adult immigration education		1925	William Sharlip, Albert A. Owens, A. Duncan (Albert Duncan) Yocum
Advanced spoken Swedish	[Rev. ed.]	1947	Martin Soderback
Aids in English		1918	Flora Belle Knapp
Alanthastos Anglikē phraseologia		1918	Angel Peter Contoyanis
Aldine first language book		1913	Catherine T. (Catherine Turner) Bryce, Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
Aldine language manual to accompany Philippine intermediate book one-		1919	Catherine T. (Catherine Turner) Bryce, Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding, George T. Shoens
Aldine language method, part three: a manual for teachers using the third language book		1917	Catherine T. (Catherine Turner) Bryce, Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding, Huber Gray Buehler
Aldine third language book		1926	Ernest R. Caverly, Catherine T. (Catherine Turner) Bryce, Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
Allen's synonyms and antonyms		1921	F. Sturges (Frederic Sturges) Allen
America for coming citizens		1922	Henry H. (Henry Harold) Goldberger
American English		1958	Albert H. (Albert Henry) Marckwardt
The American language: a preliminary inquiry into the development of English in the United States		1919	H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The American people and language, for intermediate and advanced foreign-born adults		1933	Pauline Rose, Henry Raymond Brush
An American phonetic reader		1937	Alta B. (Alta Bell) Hall, Sarah T. (Sarah Tracy) Barrows
American pronunciation: a textbook of phonetics for students of English		1935	John Samuel Kenyon
American prosody		1935	Gay Wilson Allen
An analysis of sounds and frequency words basic to a new method of corrective speech		1930	Yale Samuel Nathanson
An analysis of spelling errors		1930	James Edgar Medenhall
And so we speak: voice and articulation		1958	Johnnye Akin
Anglo-Chinese commercial conversation and classified phrases		1926	Chung Park. Lum
Anglo-Chinese practical conversation		1926	Chung P. Lum., Sun-po. Lin
An Anglo-Saxon reader		1927	Milton Haight Turk
An Anglo-Saxon reader		1929	George Philip Krapp, Arthur Garfield Kennedy
An Anglo-Saxon reader	4th ed.	1917	James Wilson Bright
An annotated bibliography of studies relating to spelling		1928	Thomas George Foran, Sister Mary Irmina
Applied business correspondence		1924	Hubert A. (Hubert Adonley) Hagar, Eupert P. So Jielle
Applied business English		1914	Hubert A. (Hubert Adonley) Hagar, Rupert Pitt SoRelle
Apprenez l'anglais!		1918	F. L. Bénassy
An approach to poetry		1930	Phosphor Mallam
Aptitudes and the languages		1944	Johnson O'Connor
The art of versification		1913	Mary Eleanor Roberts, J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
The art of writing English		1913	Nathaniel Waring Barnes, Rollo Walter Brown
The art of writing & speaking the English language		1907	Sherwin, Sherwin Cody
Articulation in English between the high school and college: a comparative study of freshman English in 21 state-supported southern higher educational institutions and of senior English in their accredited high schools		1929	William Eugene Vaughan
Assonant dictionary		1930	David Langah
Barn-yard babies in the alphabet		1934
The bases of speech		1934	Claude Merton Wise, Giles Wilkeson Gray, Claude Merton Wise
Basic engelsk for danske		1933	Viggo Adolph Christensen, Poul Boisen
Basic English applied (science)		1932	C. K. (Charles Kay) Ogden, Charles Crossfield Ware, Elmer Ellsworth Snoddy
The beginner's English book for the use of adult students		1921	Mary E. Nolin
The beginner's English book, for the use of adult students		1922	Mary E. Nolin
Beginning language arts instruction with children [by] Harold G. Shane, Mary E. Reddin [and] Margaret C. Gillespie		1961	Harold G. (Harold Gray) Shane
Beneath the crust of words		1928	Louis Foley
Better business English: a working manual for the business writer, including ready reference helps in the technical make-up of business letters, paragraphs, sentences and words, spelling, punctuation and capitalization		1921	John Matthews Manly, John Arthur Powell
Better English		1956	Norman Lewis
Better sentences		1935	C. H. (Charles Henshaw) Ward, Rachel Salisbury
The Bible word book		1960	Ronald Bridges, Luther Allan Weigle
Bibliographical guide to English studies	10th ed.	1951	Tom Peete Cross
A bibliographical manual for students of the language and literature of England and the United States	2d ed.	1941	John Webster Spargo
Bildertafeln für den unterricht im englischen	3., neubearb. aufl.	1907	Thora Goldschmidt
Blessing Esau: experiments in high school English-teaching		1919	Julia Davenport Randall
The book of modern letters		1933	W. M. Berger, Sarah Augusta Taintor, Kate Margaret Monro
Bouvier's law dictionary		1934	John Bouvier, William Edward Baldwin
Bread Loaf talks on teaching composition		1927	Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall) Hitchcock
Breaking Priscian's head: or, English as she will be spoke and wrote		1929	J. Y. T. (John Young Thomson) Greig
The Breed-French speller		1927	William C. French, Frederick Stephen Breed
A brief abstract of a new English prosody		1914	Mark Harvey Liddell
Brief business English		1935	Bruce L. (Bruce Lafayette) Vass, Benjamin John Campbell
Brief business English		1919	Bruce L. (Bruce Lafayette) Vass, Benjamin John Campbell
Brief fundamentals		1917	Sherwin Cody
Building the sentence		1921	Eri J. Shumaker
Business English: a course in practical grammar and business correspondence for eommercial schools	3d ed.	1906	Carl C. (Carl Coran) Marshall
Business English and correspondence	Rev. ed.	1921	Roy Davis, Clarence Hart Lingham
Business English projects		1921	Walter Wilbur Hatfield
Business English		1921	Rose Buhlig
Business English		1911	Edwin Herbert Lewis
Business man's dictionary and guide to English		1920
The business man's English, spoken and written		1920	Wallace Edgar Bartholomew, Floyd Hurlbut
The business of our Government		1944
Business writing		1920	James Melvin Lee
Byrne duplex English		1915	Frank A. Glenn, Bvrne
California names: over two thousand five hundred place names, individual names, words and phrases in common use in the Golden state, spelled, pronounced, defined and explained		1934	Harry Laurenz Wells
Campbell's speller and business vocabulary: spelling, pronunciation, definition and usage of words and business technicalities		1932	Mrs Edina Campbell Dover
The child and his spelling		1914	Michael Vincent O Shea, M V O'Shea, William Adelbert Cook
Choice slang		1915	Harold Poe Swartwood
Clé du premier livre d'anglais: contenant la prononciation et la traduction du texte anglais, ainsi que règles grammaticales et l'explication des idiotismes		1920	M. D. (Maximilian Delphinus) Berlitz
A college guide to business English (with chapters on advertising and business speaking)		1939	Harvey Lee. Marcoux
A combined word list		1936	B. R. (Burdette Ross) Buckingham, Edward W. (Edward William) Dolch
The command of words		1935	Samuel Stephenson Smith
Commercial English		1927	Arnold Levitas
Common essentials in spelling: a word list and teacher's manual for elementary schools		1914	Clarence Knight Studley, Allison Ware
Common words in easy sentences		1928	Andrew Eugene Eichmann, William J., Bernard Colten
A compendium of compound words, together with a list of troublesome terminations		1925	Lewis Worthington Smith, Pierre O. Landon
Completion-test language scales		1916	Marion Rex Trabue
Composition of technical papers		1925	Homer Andrew Watt, Philip Bayaud McDonald
The composition of technical papers: by Homer Andrew Watt	1st ed.	1917	Homer Andrew Watt
Compounding in the English language: a comparative review of variant authorites with a rational system for general use and a comprehensive alphabetic list of compound words		1939	Alice Morton Ball
A comprehensive guide to good English		1927	George Philip Krapp
Constructive lessons in English for the foreign born		1922	Nina Joy Smith Beglinger
Constructive spelling: for high schools, by Cornelia R.Trowbridge		1928	Cornelia Rogers Trowbridge
Content and form of original compositions dictated by children from five to eight years of age		1930	Jean Betzner
The conventions of composition		1935	Henry Copp Edgar, Archibald Cary Coolidge, 2d
Correct English; every-day slips of tongue and pen--alphabetically arranged for ready reference and review		1926	Herman Joseph Walthier
Correct pronunciation		1912	J. W. (Julian Willis) Abernethy
Correct pronunciation for cultured speech		1918	Grace Moncrieff Miller
The correct word		1910	Josephine Turck Baker
Corrective exercises in English		1928	Kate M. Monro, Sarah Augusta Taintor
A correlated curriculum: a report of the Committee on Correlation of the National Council of Teachers of English, Ruth Mary Weeks, chairman. A publication of the National Council of Teachers of English		1936	Ruth Mary Weeks
Correlated lessons in language and occupation work		1914	Ruth O. Dyer
The correlation of vocational and liberal education through English language and literature		1918	Mary Belle Hooton
Correlation of vocational and liberal education through English		1918	Mary Belle Hooton
Correspondencia comercial inglesa		1921
A course of study and syllabus for teaching English to non-English speaking adults		1919	Samuel J. Brown, Henry H. (Henry Harold) Goldberger
Course of study in English language and literature for junior and senior high schools		1917	Mary Belle Hooton, Mary Belle B Lincoln
A course of study in the teaching of composition		1912	Ethel G. Smith, Effie B. (Effie Belle) McFadden
Crabb's English synonymes		1917	George Crabb, John H. Finley
The craft of poetry		1929	Clement Wood
Creative power		1929	Hughes Mearns
Creative youth		1925	Hughes Mearns, Otis W. Caldwell
Crossword puzzle synonyms: fifty thousand words to solve crosswords		1924	Ernest Nathaniel Ross
Crowell's dictionary of English grammar and handbook of American usage		1928	Maurice H. (Maurice Harley) Weseen
Curiosities of the English language		1924	Solomon Ream
Current English: a study of present-day usages and tendencies, including pronunciation, spelling, grammatical practice, word-coining, and the shifting of meanings		1935	Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Current English usage		1932	Sterling Andrus Leonard
Current glossary		1917	R. W. (Roy William). Cowden
Curso rápido y fundamental de inglés		1934	Juan. Marin
Daily lesson plans in English		1914	Caroline Stearns Griffin
A desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced		1929	Frank H. Vizetelly
A desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced: embracing English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal names, geographical names, and proper names of all kinds current in literature, science, and the arts, that are of difficult pronunciation, carefully pronounced, annotated, and concisely defined, and indicating the preferences of the leading dictionaries from 1732 to 1916	2d (amplified) ed.	1919	Frank H. Vizetelly
A desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced		1917	Frank H. Vizetelly
Developing facility in English composition		1939
Developing language skills in the elementary schools	2d ed.	1963	Walter Thomas Petty, Harry A. (Harry Andrew) Greene
The development of a modern program in English		1936
The development of elementary English language textbooks in the United States		1929	Elizabeth Whitemore Baker
The development of language: an elementary study of language history and of the growth of our speech for use in schools		1921	Harry Fletcher Scott, Wilbert Lester Carr
The development of modern English		1934	Stuart Robertson
The development of modern English	3d printing,	1938	Stuart Robertson
Diagnostic and measurement tests to accompany English for daily use		1929	Edna L. (Edna Louise). Sterling, Miriam Elizabeth Cole
The dialect of Hartland		1934	Richard Pearse Chope
Dialogoi Angloellēnikoi meta prohoras		1920
Diccionario Amaltea, inglés y español		1933	Esteban Macragh
The dictionary companion		1932	C. O. Sylvester (Christopher Orlando Sylvester) Mawson
A dictionary of American slang		1934	Maurice H. (Maurice Harley) Weseen
Dictionary of hard words		1910	Robert M. (Robert Morris) Pierce
A dictionary of literary terms		1951	Charles Duffy, Henry J. Pettit
A dictionary of Spanish terms in English: with special reference to the American Southwest		1932	Harold Woodmansee Bentley
Dictionary of synonyms		1925	John R. Fabre
Dictionary of world literature: criticism, forms, technique		1943	Joseph T. (Joseph Twadell) Shipley
Directing language power in the elementary school child through story: a dramatization, and poetry		1933	Caroline Julia Trommer, Teresa Agnes Regan
Directions for the production of English consonants		1929	Sophie Augusta Pray
A dozen a day in spelling, punctuation, and grammar		1929	Harold Hamilton Wade, John Earle Blossom
Drill		1935	Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall) Hitchcock
Du latin à l'anglais		1929	Paul Crouzet, Armand Fournier
Early New England pronunciation as reflected in some seventeenth century town records of eastern Massachusetts		1927
Effective business English		1936	Alta Gwinn Saunders
Effective business English as applied to business letters and reports		1925	Mrs Alta Gwinn Saunders
Effective English in business		1935	Robert Ray Aurner
The effectiveness of modern spelling instruction		1930	Robert Sydney Thompson
Eighteen thousand words often mispronounced	A carefully rev., greatly enl., and entirely rewritten ed.	1914	William Henry Pinkney Phyfe
Eine verkürzte Methode Toussaint-Langenscheidt: Ausg. für Amerika		1912	Karl Blattner
El inglés al alcance de todos: método práctico y sencillo para aprender el inglés, en 20 lecciones		1925	Julián Moreno-Lacalle
El inglés de los Estados Unidos		1948	P. Carlo (Pietro Carlo) Rossi
El inglés para el médico (Medical English)		1925	Aristides A. (Aristides Alcibiades) Moll
El inglés sin profesor, con la pronunciación figurado en castellano		1933	Isidro Fornés
El ingles sin maestro: metodo practico para aprender el ingles en veinte lecciones, con la pronunciacion figurada en castellano	1. ed.	1916	Ignacio E. Lozano
Elementary English reader for Spanish-speaking students		1928	Colley F. (Colley Fredward) Sparkman
An elementary Latin dictionary		1915	Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery
Elementary lessons in everyday English		1920	Emma Miller Bolenius
Elementary synonyms		1915	David Langah
The elements of English verse: a manual and workbook for students of poetry and verse writing		1935	Lawrence John Zillman
The elements of style		1919	William Strunk
Elements of the history of the English language		1911	Uno Lorenz Lindelöf, Robert Max Garrett
Engineering English		1928	John Hubert Scott
Englisch zur schnellsten aneignung der umgangs-sprache durch selbstunterricht: reisesprachführer, konversationsbuch, grammatik und wörterbuch, gespräche, auch zur anwendung für sprechmaschinen		1910	Heinrich Baumann
Englisches hilfsbuch für auswanderer		1912	Hermann Zetzsche
English: a practical drill book for foreigners and native beginners		1921	Mabel L. Benson
English and engineering		1917	Frank Aydelotte
English as experience		1928	Henry Chester Tracy
English at work		1929	Mrs Elizabeth (Hill) Spalding
English composition as a social problem		1917	Sterling Andrus Leonard, H. Suzzallo
English derivatives: a practical class book		1916	B. K. (Blackwood Ketcham) Benson
English diction: A practical system for the improvement of defective voices, and the attainment of perfect diction in both speech and song		1915	Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers
English diction for singers and speakers		1912	Clara Kathleen (Barnett) Rogers
English essentials: a handbook of correct English usage with keyed exercises		1930	J. Martyn (James Martyn) Walsh, Anna Kathleen Walsh
English evidence		1925	C. H. (Charles Henshaw) Ward
English expression: a study in curriculum-building		1926	Roy Ivan Johnson
English for adult students of foreign birth		1914	John Edwin Banks
English for business		1920	Edward Harlan Webster
English for business use		1934	Charles Gottshall Reigner
English for business uses and commercial correspondence		1914	Sherwin Cody
English for business		1916	Edward Harlan Webster
English for children: a teacher's book in language for the primary grades		1937	sister Mary Vera, Sister Mary Marguerite
English for coming Canadians: teacher's manual; a rational system for teaching English to foreigners		1912	Peter Roberts
English for coming citizens		1918	Henry H. (Henry Harold) Goldberger
English for foreigners		1909	Sara Redempta O'Brien
English for future citizens		1927	Lela M. O'Connell, Karl A. Reiche
English for illiterates		1929	Agnes Marie Whittier
English for the non-English		1913	Norman Fergus Black
English for use		1935	William Dodge Lewis, John H. (John Harrie) Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan
English for use		1926	William Dodge Lewis, John H. (John Harrie) Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan
English for vocational and technical schools	2d ed.	1954	John Theodore Shuman
English for vocational schools		1936	John Theodore Shuman
English fundamentals		1926	Benjamin Franklin Crowson
English fundamentals for Filipino students		1932	Angela Jaranilla, Isabelo Manalo, Merrill S. Potts
The English gipsies and their language	3rd ed.	1874	Charles Godfrey Leland
English grammar for Latin Americans: essential principles and correct forms of speaking and writing		1916	Abbie Frye. Phillips
English idioms and grammar		1915	M. D. (Maximilian Delphinus) Berlitz
English in business and engineering		1936	Brenton Wallace Stevenson, C. F. Kettering, John Reed Spicer
English in business: for students in commercial and general secondary schools		1920	Dudley H. (Dudley Howe) Miles
English in business		1928	Dudley H. (Dudley Howe) Miles
English in common learnings: a report of the Committee on Contributions of English to Common Learnings; Lou La Brant, chairman		1951	Lou L. (Lou Le Vanche) La Brant
English in daily life		1934	Charles Robert Gaston, Munjon Moses Nagelberg, Mrs Abby Forbes Chapin
English in state teachers colleges		1928	Ida A. (Ida Adele) Jewett
English instruction in the University high school		1933	Rollo La Verne Lyman, Edith E. (Edith Elizabeth) Shepherd
English is a foreign language: a manual for teachers of foreign-speaking adults		1946	Caroline A. (Caroline Almira) Whipple
The English language	3d ed. rev. and greatly enl.	1850	R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The English language in America		1925	George Philip Krapp
The English language		1912	Logan Pearsall Smith
The English language		1912	Logan Pearsall Smith
English lessons for beginners		1918	F. L. Bénassy, J. Souriau
English lessons for the jute industry		1919	Alfred Katz, Charles H. Paull
The English of business		1921	Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Ronald S. (Ronald Salmon) Crane
The English of business		1934	Hubert A. (Hubert Adonley) Hagar, Lillian Grissom Wilson, Elsie Lillian Hutchinson
The English of business		1935	Elsie Lillian Hutchinson, Hubert A. (Hubert Adonley) Hagar, Lillian Grissom Wilson
The English of commerce		1920	John B. (John Baker) Opdycke, Frank A. Vanderlip
The English of commerce		1928	John B. (John Baker) Opdycke, Frank A. Yanderlip
The English of commerce		1932	John B. (John Baker) Opdycke, Frank A. Vanderlip
English overseas: guidelines for the American effort in teaching English as a second language		1961
English phrases and idioms		1916	James Lewis Smith
English problems in the solving: for the junior and senior high schools		1920	Sarah E. (Sarah Emma) Simons, Miss Anne McColm
An English pronouncing dictionary		1937	Daniel Jones
English prose: a series of related essays for the discussion and practice of the art of writing		1913	Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott
English prose style		1928	Herbert Read
English reader		1917	Peter Roberts
English self-taught for Spaniards		1915	Alfonso Garcia
The English sentence		1928	Lucille J. K. Ramírez
English spelling, its rules and reasons		1927	Sir William A. (William Alexander) Craigie
English synonyms and antonyms	new and enl. ed.	1914	James Champlin Fernald
The English teacher's manual		1912	Lemuel Arthur Pittenger
English teaching in the Southwest: organization and materials for instructing Spanish-speaking children, compiled for the Committee on Modern Languages of the American Council on Education		1940	Mrs Clara Breslove King, A. (Algernon) Coleman
An English term plan, 1921, for the use of the teachers of the parochial schools of the archdiocese of St. Louis		1921
English that makes money		1920	Frederick Houk Law, Karl Van Shaack Howland
English usage: studies in the history and uses of English words and phrases		1917	J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall
English visible speech in twelve lessons		1932	Caroline Ardelia Yale, Alexander Melville Bell
English word lists: a study of their adaptability for instruction		1940	Alice Aileen Traver, Charles C. (Charles Carpenter) Fries
English words with native roots and with Greek, Latin, or Romance suffixes		1916	George Albert Nicholson, F. A. Wood
English-class plays for new Americans		1927	Emily M. Gibson
An enjoyable grammar		1925	May C. Fairbanks
Entrance English questions set by the College Entrance Board: 1901-1928		1929	Clark Sutherland Northup
Errors and improvement in rating English compositions by means of a composition scale		1930	Pu Hwang