162.
Jan. 5, 1927
Galahad
John Erskine
Bobbs-Merril Co.
Another satire à la Helen of Troy
Wilmington, Del.
Jan. 9, 1927
The Romantic Comedians
Ellen Glasgow
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Novel
Ugh! Age & Youth.
Wilmington, Del.
Jan. 15, 1927
Pig Iron
Charles G. Norris
E. P. Dutton
Novel
Success!
Wilmington, Del.
163.
1927
Jan. 12/27
Preface to Life
Zona Gale
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 25, 1927
Blood Pressure
L F. Bishop M.D.
E. B. Treat & Co.
Medical Treatise
Marshallton, Del.
Feb. 4, 1927
Don Juan
Novelized Movie
Washington D.C.
Feb. 10, 1927
The American Race Problem
E. B. Reuter
Sociology
E. P. Crowell & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 14, 1927
Angel
Du Bose Heyward
Novel of “Po whites” in North Carolina
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
164.
Feb. 20, 1927
The Ninth War
Carl Van Doran
Novel
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Wilm. Del.
March 1, 1927
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
The Modern Library
Dumbest and most fascinating fantasy ever written.
Marshallton, Del.
March 3, 1927
Fine Clothes to the Jew
Langston Hughes
Alfred A. Knopf
Poetry
On the train between Wash. D.C. and Roanoke, Va.
March 4, 1927
The Gift of Black Folk
W. E. B. DuBois
Re-read
Roanoke, Va.
165.
March 13, 1927
Black Haiti
Blair Niles
Travel History
Putnam
Wilm. Del.
March 17, 1927
Beau Sabeur
Percival Christopher Wren
Fred-A-Stokes Co.
Romantic Novel of the Great War
Wilm. Del.
March 17, 1927
The Red Lamp
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mystery Story
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
March 22, 1927
Ninth Avenue
Maxwell Bodenheim
An improvement on Nigger Heaven
Boni & Liveright
Marshallton, Del.
166.
April 3, 1927
Black April
Julia Peterkin
A novel by a white woman with not a white character. A great, elemental story.
Bobbs-Merrill
Wilm. Del.
April 10, 1927
Georgian Stories
G. P. Putnam & Sons
Wilm. Del.
April 12, 1927
The Hollywood Girl
Beatrice Burton
Serial Novel Evg. Public Ledger
Wilm. Del.
April 15, 1927
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Novel – better than Babbit or Main Street. Exposé of rottenness of Protestant Church.
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Wilm. Del.
May 14, 1927
How Joan Loved Through
Gladys E. Johnson
Serial Novel Evg. Public Ledger
Wilm. Del.
167.
May 15, ‘27
God’s Trombones
James Weldon Johnson
Folk Sermons in verse
Poetry
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
May 19, 1927
Wedlock
Jacob Wasserman
Trans. from the German by Ludwig Lewisohn
Wilm. Del.
May 31, 1927
Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield
Pulitzer Prize Novel
Fred A. Stokes
Wilm. Del.
June 1, 1927
Read ‘Em And Weep
Sigmund Spaeth
Account of songs from Early American to Modern Days
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Marshallton, Del.
168.
June 3, 1927
The Tree of Heaven
May Sinclair
Novel
Macmillan Co.
Marshallton, Del.
June 7, 1927
The Dice of God
Cynthia Stockely
Novel of So. Africa. Trashy as usual
…Doran & Co.[i]
Marshallton, Del.
June 14, 1927
The South Africans
Sarah Gertrude Millin
History – Geography – Exposition
Boni & Liveright
Wilmington, Del.
June 15, 1927
Chimes
Robert Herrick
Novel of American University Life
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
169.
June 16, 1927
My Mortal Enemy
Willa Cather
Alfred A. Knopf
Novelette
Marshallton, Del.
June 19, 1927
Perella
W. J. Locke
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Characteristic Lockian Tale of wistful maiden & shy, queer middle-aged man.
W’ton. Del.
June 22
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair
Hugh Walpole
A Romantic Macabre
Geo. H. Doran
W’ton. Del.
June 30
Jorgensen
Tristram Tupper
Novel (Strange –about an engineer of a railroad)
Lippincott Co.
Summit, N. J.
170.
July 10
Georgian Studies
Best Short Stories of 1926
Putnam
Short Stories
Wilmington, Del.
July 12
Bred in the Bone
Elsie Singmaster
Mennonite Short Stories
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 13
Sleeping Dogs
Mabel Barnes-Grundy
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Silly and Delightful Novel
Wilm. Del.
July 16
One Little Man
Christopher Ward
Novel – Pathetic scene laid in Wilmington thinly disguised.
Harper Brothers
Wilm. Del.
171.
July 23
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Novel
Boni & Liveright
2vols. 800 odd pages of fascinating, sordid … drivel. Irritating and compelling. [ii]
Wash. D.C.
July 31
Oil
Upton Sinclair
Novel. Sinclair’s best style telling of competition in high places because of the world’s need of oil.
Albert and Chas. Boni
Wash. D.C.
Aug. 2
The Hard-Boiled Virgin
Frances Newman
Boni & Liveright
Novel
Leaves nothing to the imagination.
Wash. D.C.
Aug. 4
The Girl Who Played Safe
Hazel Deyo Batchelor
Trashy serial novel. Evg. Public Ledger
Wash. D.C.
172.
Aug. 8
Copper Sun
Countee Cullen [iii]
Poems
Harper Bros.
Wash. D.C.
Aug. 11
The Mauve Decade
Thomas Beer
Satirical Essay on American Life from 1890 to 1900
Alfred A. Knopf
Wash. D.C.
Aug. 13
Mrs. Merivale
Paul Kimball
$2500 Prize Novel
Ed. J. Clode Inc.
Wash. D.C.
Aug. 15
Black Cameos
R. Emmett Kennedy
Sketches, Songs, Stories of Louisiana (Gretna & Algiers)
Albert & Chas Boni
Wilm. Del.
173.
Aug. 17, 1927
Congaree Sketches
Ed. C. L. Adams with an introduction by Paul Green
Univ. of N. C. Press
Same as Black Cameos – only of the Congaree swamp of So. Carolina
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 24, 1927
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
Alfred A. Knopf
Re-read after 15 years in a reprint.
New York
Sept. 1
Memoirs of my Dead Life
George Moore
Privately Printed by Boni Liveright
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 4
Possession
Louis Bromfield
Fred A. Stokes
Novel – in series of “Early Autumn”
Wilm. Del.
174.
Sept. 6, 1927
The King’s Henchman
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Drama
Harper Bros.
Marshallton, Delaware
Sept. 10, ‘27
Rhapsody: A Dream Novel
Arthur Schmitzer
Trans. from German by Otto P. Schinnerer
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 12, 1927
The Bowl of Heaven
Evangeline Adams
Autobiography of an Astrologer
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 13, 1927
Caponsacchi
Drama – Based on Browning’s Ring and the Book. As played by Walter Hampden.
Arthur Goodrich
Rose A. Palmer
Wilmington, Del.
175.
1927
Sept. 18
Octagon House
Gertrude Knevels
D. Appleton & Co.
Detective Novel
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 20
Twilight Steps
Edith Wharton
D. Appleton & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 26
A Good Woman
Louis Bromfield
Fred A. Stokes
Novel – Bitter Satire
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 3
Revelry
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Boni & Liveright
Novel. Being the truth about Pres. Harding, his administration, & his suicide.
Marshallton, Del.
176.
October 7, 1927
Death Comes to the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Novel – Yet not a novel so much as a narrative of the missionary-work of the great Southwest. Beautiful.
Alfred A. Knopf
On train between Wilmington & Cape Charles, Va.
Oct. 8
The Red Lily
Anatole France
Trans. by Winifred Stephens
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Novel
On train between Cape Charles and W’ton.
Oct. 17
The Negro in Chicago
Edited by Frederic H. Robb
Pub. by Wash. Intercollegiate Club.
Chicago Statistics
Wilmington, Del.
Oct. 18
Portraits in Color
Many White Ovington
Viking Press
Biography
Wilm. Del.
177.
Oct. 20
Dusty Answer
Rosamond Lehman
Novel (Best since Time of Man… youthful…) [iv]
Henry Holt & Co.
Marshallton, Del.
Oct. 23
Miss Brown of XYO
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Serial Novel Evg. Public Ledger
Wilmington, Del.
Oct. 25
Mr. Ramosi
Valentine Williams
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 1
The Problem Child
A. S. Neil
McBride
Psychology
On train bet. Wash. D.C. & Wilm. Del.
178.
Nov. 5, 1927
Caroling Dusk: Anthology of Negro Poetry
Edited by Countee Cullen
Harper Bros.
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 5
The Blind Bow Boy
Carl Van Vechten
Novel – perhaps
Alfred A Knopf
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 14
Southern Exposure
Peter Mitchel Wilson
Univ. of N.C. Press
Narrative – Autobiography
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 15
The Piper
Josephine Preston Peabody
Drama
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilm. Del.
179.
Nov. 16
The Chinese Parrot
Earl Der Biggers
Mystery Novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 18
Mother Knows Best
Edna Ferber
Short Stories
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 23
Eulalie Spence
Play [v]
Samuel French Co.
Washington D.C.
Nov. 28
The Kingdom of Theophilus
Wm. J. Locke
Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
180.
Dec. 1, 1927
Progressive Trends in Rural Education
A. D. Mueller
Education
Century
Marshallton, Del.
Dec. 12, 1927
The Leopard in the Bush
Cynthia Stockley
Novel
G. P. Putman Sons
Marshallton, Del.
Dec. 14, 1927
Yellow Gentians & Blue
Zona Gale
Short Stories
D. Appleton & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Dec. 18, 1927
Robert Burns
John Drinkwater
Drama
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilmington, Del.
181.
Dec. 28
The Small Bachelor
P. G. Wodehouse
Novel
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 31
Rhoda Fair
Clarence Budington Kelland
Novel
Wilm. Del.
1927
Novels 49
Short Stories 7
Essays 5
History 2
Poetry 4
Drama 5
Psychology 1
Text Books 2
Sociology 1
Biography 3
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Notes
[i] Published in 1926 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, not George H. Doran.
[ii] The brief annotation provided for this title is not entirely legible.
[iii] Countee Cullen, one of Dunbar-Nelson’s preferred poets from the Harlem Renaissance, had met Dunbar-Nelson on more than one occasion.
[iv] Another partly illegible annotation found here, Dunbar-Nelson’s penmanship appears to have degraded somewhat over time.
[v] Although Dunbar-Nelson did not include the work’s title in this entry, she was most likely noting Spencer’s one-act play, A Fool’s Errand, published by Samuel French in 1927.
