[Wikisource-l] help needed searching for pagescans and front covers

We have a complaint about Wikisource having a censored edition of a work by Robert E. Howard: http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/08/08/he-picked-picts-to-depict/ It is in regards to: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wings_in_the_Night by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard There is no Wikipedia article for it, and only a few mentions which might help write a new article: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=howard+"Wings+in+the+Night"+-&q… To be honest, this blogger is spot on. Our editions for these stories are terrible, usually being uploaded by one person from a crappy online edition, altered to partial conform to another crappy online edition of unknown provenance :- rinse and repeat, until we have a very crappy edition indeed. Example: http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Call_of_Cthulhu&limit=10… Weird Tales, and the many stories by Howard and Lovecraft, are mostly in the public domain, but they are incredibly hard to find pagescans of. archive.org has none that I can see: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Robert%20E.%20Howard%20AND%20mediat… I would rather have crappy editions on Wikisource rather than none at all, as it does invite more discussion and participation, and I think the key is to construct the best catalog possible, so that everyone links to us for their bibliographic data. I made a start on this last time I got a bit motivated on this topic: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales There is heaps of bibliographic data within easy reach on various author pages: http://www.google.com.au/search?q="weird+tales"+site%3Aen.wikisou… There are a lot of sites that provide images of the front covers, which are mostly PD and could be uploaded to Commons. http://members.aol.com/weirdtale1/covers23-32.htm Slightly related, user Atomicsteve did some fantastic work along these lines with US-PD-no-renewal comics. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Atomicsteve http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Atomicsteve It looks like some people are making pagescans available, .. for a price: http://members.aol.com/weirdtales/moreinfo.htm Is there any way we can organise a "bounty" with the foundation for donations to be collated and put towards purchasing pagescans of these rare items? One source of hope is a PGDP project for "H.P. Lovecraft's Writings in the United Amateur (1915-1922)". No other related PGDP projects that I can see. http://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID41ef39d98f43c&detail_leve… and in the PGDP forum is the following: "As a bonus, I've uploaded the rest of Lovecraft in the United Amateur to a image hosting site, if you're curious about what was written in 1924 or want to help clear part of it. It's only 6 pages. http://bayimg.com/eAEKIAabJ http://bayimg.com/EaekKaabj http://bayimg.com/faeKgAaBj http://bayimg.com/fAekiAABJ http://bayimg.com/FAEKjaaBJ http://bayimg.com/GaekFAabJ" -- John Mark Vandenberg