68.
Feb. 1, 1921
The Actor Manager
Leonard Meyrick[i]
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
Feb. 1, 1921
Mainly for Myself…
Robert T. Krelin
Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Poems
Wilmington
Feb. 1, 1921
The Voice of the Negro
Robert T. Kerlin
E. P. Dutton
Extracts from Negro Newspapers
Wilmington
69.
March 3
The Mulatto in the United States
Chicago University Press
Doctorate Thesis
Washington D.C.
March 17
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
D. Appleton & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
March 22
The Knave of Diamonds
Ethel Dell
A. L. Burt Co.
Wilm. Del.
70.
March 30
Potterism
Rose Macaulay
Boni & Liveright
Novel (Satirical)
Wilmington, Delaware
April 1
The Hills of Han
Samuel Merwin
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Novel
Cape Charles (Va.) Boat
April 2
Helena
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
April 4
Far Away Stories
William J. Locke
Short Stories
John Kane Co.
Philadelphia
71.
April 10
Mince Pie
Christopher Morley
Occasional Essays
Wilmington, Del.
April 22
A Salute from the Fleet
Alfred Noyes
Poems
Methuen Co.
Wilmington
April 23
Flappers and Philosophies
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner’s
Short Stories
Wilmington
72.
April 26
The Unknown Quantity
Henry Van Dyke
Scribner’s
Short Stories
Wilmington
May 1, 1921
The House of Baltazar
William J. Locke
John Lane Co.
Wilmington
May 8, 1921
The Mountebank
William J. Locke
Novel
Wilmington
73.
May 15, 1921
The Yellow Jacket: A Chinese Drama
George C. Hazleton and Benrimo
Bobbs-Merrill
Wilmington
May 22, 1921
Half Portions
Short Stories
Edna Ferber
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilmington, Delaware
May 23, 1921
Moons of Grandeur
William Rose Benét
Poems
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
74.
May 24, 1921
Anthology of Magazine Verse 1920
William Stanley Braithwaite
Sewall, Maynard & Co.
Wilm. Del.
May 27, 1921
The Mystery of the Sycamore Tree
Carolyn Wells
Detective Novel
Lippincott Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 5, 1921
The Brimming Cup
Dorothy Canfield
Novel
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Wilm. Del.
75.
June 12, 1921
Six Seconds of Darkness
Octavius Ray Cohen
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Detective Novel
Wilm. Del.
June 20, 1921
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
Novel
Harcourt, Brace, & Howe
Wilm. Del.
June 30, ‘21
The Story of Opal “A Journal of an Understanding Heart”
Opal Whiteley
Diary
Atlantic Monthly Press
Wilm. Del.
76.
July 3, 1921
Basil Everman
Elsie Singmaster
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Novel (A story in which the hero is dead twenty years before the opening)
Harper’s Ferry W. Va.
July 9, 1921
While Paris Laughed
Leonard Merrick
Short Stories with thread of continuity
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 12, 1921
The Undying Fire
H. G. Wells
A Contemporary Telling of the Book of Job
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
77.
July 12, 1921
The Behavior of Crowds
Everett Dean Martin
Psychological Study of Humanity in the Mass
Pub. by Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
July 13, 1921
Wisconsin Plays: Second Series
Drama
Feast of the [Holy] Innocents – S. Marshall Ilsley
On the Pier – Laura Sherry
The Shadow – Howard Mumford Jones
We Live Again – Thornton Gilman
B. W. Heubsch, N.Y.
Wilm. Del.
July 14, 1921
The Lost Ambassador
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Novel
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
78.
July 20, 1921
The Green Goddess
William Archer
Drama
Alfred A. Knopf – Pub. N.Y.
Wilmington, Del.
July 23, 1921
Black Bartelmy’s Treasure
Jeffery Farnol
Romance of Adventure
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 23, 1921
Olympian Nights
John Kendrick Bangs
Fantasy. After the fashion of the House Boat and the Style.
Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
79.
July 28, 1921
The Charmed Life of Miss Austin
Samuel Merwin
Century Co.
Short Stories of the China Coast woven into the complete plot.
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 3, 1921
Heart Break House
George Bernard Shaw
Brentano’s
Drama (Satire, of course)
Morristown, New Jersey
Aug. 17, 1921
My Country & Other Poems
Theodore Henry Shackelford
Poems
Printed L.W. Klopp & Co. Phila.
Wilm. Del.
80.
Aug. 18, 1921
The Master-Key System
Chas. K. Haanel[ii]
Printed by C. K. N. St. Louis
A Psychological System of Christian Science
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 23, 1921
A Canticle of Pan & Other Poems
Witter Bynner
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 31
The Wings of Oppression
Leslie Pinckney Hill[iii]
Poem
The Stratford Press
Wilm. Del.
81.
Sept. 1, 1921
Manslaughter
Alice Duer Miller
Serial Novel. Saturday Evening Post.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 9, 1921
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 15, 1921
Sight Unseen and the Confession
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Two Novelettes
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 23, 1921
Buried Alive
Arnold Bennett
Novel
Brentano’s
Wilm. Del.
82.
Oct. 22, 1921
Life
Johan Bojer
Translated from Norwegian by Jessie Muir
Novel
Muffat, Yard & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 31, 1921
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novel
Scribner Sons
On the Chi. Rock Is. & P. R. R. between Davenport and Des Moines, Iowa [iv]
Nov. 19, 1921
The Miracle of St. Anthony
Maurice Maeterlinck
Trans. by Alex Teixeira de Mattos
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
83.
Nov. 1, 1921
The Uses of Adversity [v]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Essays
On Train bet. Des Moines and Chicago
Dec 11, 1921
The Mirrors of Washington
Anonymous
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Satirical Biographies of Noted Figures in Washington
Wilmington, Del.
84.
1921
Poetry 7
Novels 23
Essays 5
Short Stories 6
Psychology 2
Drama 5
Autobiography 1
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Notes
[i] Leonard Merrick.
[ii] Charles F. Haanel.
[iii] Hill was part of Dunbar-Nelson’s professional network.
[iv] Abbreviation stands for railway service Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
[v] Dunbar-Nelson repeats the misquoted title of a bookseller in this entry; the title of book is actually The Uses of Diversity not The Uses of Adversity.
