Gentlemen:Thank you. To clarify this, the edition of Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley in question was "Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, New York" as a reprint of the "Second English edition 1910". There is no explicit copyright notice. The issues may be a bit complicated because the date of publication in the USA is unstated, and in fact may be later than 1910. But presumably a subsequent US publication of a reprint does not create a new copyright. Also your list makes no mention of works published in English between 1909 and 1922 which are not "Published in compliance with US formalities" - and such formalities do not apply here as they require a formal copyright notice. Nevertheless it seems clear that in every case a work published before 1923 whose authors have been dead for more than 70 years is in the public domain. The only possible copyright claim on the book might come from the rules described at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/c-fineprint.html, but these probably apply only to publications in languages other than English.
Here is a page giving the terms of copyright and
public domain. I hope this clears up the confusion
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
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