101.
1923
Jan. 3
Bronze
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Poems
B. J. Brimmer Co.
On train bet. New York & Wilmington
Jan. 6
Days of the Colonists
L. Lamprey
Historical sketches for young people.
Frederick Stokes
Wilmington, Del.
Jan. 26
Maria Chapdelaine
Louis Hémon
Novel of the pioneer Quebec province life.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 30
Messer Marco Polo
Don Bryne
Romantic Novelette
The Century Co.
Wilm. Del.
102.
Feb. 16
Topless Towers
Margaret Ashmun
The Macmillan Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 20
The Quest of the Sacred Slippers
Sax Rohmer
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Mystery Novel
(Re-read) Wilm. Del.
Feb. 23
Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Carl Sandburg
Poetry (Verse Letter)
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 24
The Tale of Triona
William J. Locke
Novel – Locke at his best
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
103.
Feb. 25
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
J. S. Fletcher
Detective Novel
Alfred Knopf
Wilmington, Del.
Feb. 28
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
J. S. Fletcher
Detective Novel
Evening Public Ledger Serial
Wilmington, Del.
March 3
One of Ours
Willa Cather
Won $1,000 Pulitzer Prize for 1922
Novel (of the War)
Alfred Knopf
Wilmington, Del.
March 12
Support
Margaret Ashmun
Novel
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
104.
March 13
Limehouse Nights
Thomas Burke
Robert McBride & Co.
Short Stories of London Life
(Basis of Griffith’s Moving Picture Play, “Dream Street”)
Wilmington, Del.
March 14
The Blue Circle
Elizabeth Jordan
Century Co.
Mystery Novel
Wilm. Del.
March 23
Leave It to Psmith
P. G. Wodehouse
Saturday Evening Post Serial Novel
Wilm. Del.
April 1
Man’s Country
Peter Clark MacFarlane
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Novel
Wilm. Del.
105.
April 5
Danger Signals for Teachers
A. E. Winship
Forbes & Co.
Essay
Wilm. Del.
April 23
The Star of India [i]
James M. Torry
Mystery Serial Chicago Daily News
Wilmington
April 29
Joan of Arc
Boutet de Monville [illustrator]
Biography – Text subservient to beautiful illustrations
Cheney, Pa.
May 10
R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Karel Capek
Fantastic Drama of the Future
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
106.
May 15
This Freedom
A. M. Hutchinson
Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
May 23
The Vehement Flame
Margaret Deland
Novel
Harpers
Wilm. Del.
May 24
Within these Walls
Rupert Hughes
Serial Red Book Magazine
Wilm. Del.
May 25
A Dead Man’s Shadow [ii]
Jas. M. Torry
Serial Novel Chicago Daily News
Wilm. Del.
107.
June 4
The Harry Ape; Anna Christie; The Last Man [iii]
Eugene O’Neill
Drama
Boni & Liveright
Train in route Ocean City, N.J. – Wilm. Del.
July 14
Our Unconscious Mind
Frederick Pierce
Psychology
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 15
One Arabian Night
Arthur Stringer
Novelette (Serial) Sat. Evg. Post
Wilm. Del.
July 26
The Thin Stiletto [iv]
James M. Torry
Mystery Serial Chicago Daily News
Wilm. Del.
108.
July 24
New Year’s Day
Edith Wharton
Serial Novelette Red Book
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 7
The Bookman Anthology of Verse
Edited by John Farrar
George H. Doran Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 23
Poor White
Sherwood Anderson
B. W. Huebsch
Novel
Buffalo, N.Y.
Sept. 13
Ponjola
Cynthia Stockley
Novel
Putnam & Sons
Wilm. Del.
109.
Sept. 20, 1923
The Lynching Bee and Other Poems
William Ellery Leonard
B. W. Heubsch
Poems
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 22, 1923
The Thread of Flame
Basil King
Novel
Harpers.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 23
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig
David Graham Phillips
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 25
Where the Blue Begins
Christopher Morley
Whimsy – Disguised as a Novel
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
110.
Sept. 28
The Dim Lantern
Temple Bailey
Novel
Penn Pub Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 8
The Hidden Road
Elsie Singmaster
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 10
The Mother of Living
Robert Keable
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 15
Diet and Health
Lulu Hunt Peters M.D.
Reilly & Lee Co.
Medical
Wilm. Del.
111.
Oct. 27
Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl
Cynthia Stockley
Novel
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Oct. 28
A Six Cylinder Courtship
Edward Salisbury Field
John McBride Co.
Novelette
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Nov. 2
Black Oxen
Gertrude Atherton
Glandular Endocrine Novel
Boni Liveright Co.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Nov. 4
The Cathedral
Hugh Walpole
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Epic Novel
Wilm. Del.
112.
Dec. 5
Where the Twain Meet
Mary Gaunt
Narrative Description of Jamaica
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 13
Emerson
Elizabeth Luther Cary
Putnam Sons
Biography
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 14
A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Elliot Cabot
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Biography
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 18
Nature – Addresses & Lectures
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Houghton Mifflin
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 26
Negro Poets and Their Poems
Robert Thomas Kerlin
Poetry
Associated Publishers
Wilm. Del.
113.
1923
Novels – 32
Poems – 5
Drama – 2
Text – 3
Travel
Essays – 1
History – 3
Short Stories – 1
Biography – 2
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Notes
[i] This title in the listed serial could not be retrieved for satisfactory confirmation.
[ii] Title and author remain unconfirmed.
[iii] The correct title for this O’Neill play is The First Man.
[iv] Title and author unconfirmed.
