CHECKLIST OF BOOKS BY DON MARQUIS
By John Batteiger
Copyright (c) 2011-2021
Listed below are Don’s books that were distributed to the general public typically through booksellers: the thirty-one trade editions that constitute the author’s canon, plus thirteen omnibus editions and translations. This list is followed by notable editions that were privately published.
Danny’s Own Story, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912 (novel)
Dreams & Dust, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1915 (poems)
The Cruise of the Jasper B., New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916 (novel)
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916 (sketches)
Prefaces, New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919 (sketches)
The Old Soak and Hail and Farewell, Garden City, N.Y., and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921 (sketches, light verse)
Carter and Other People, New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921 (short stories)
Noah an’ Jonah an’ Cap’n John Smith, a Book of Humorous Verse, New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921 (sketches, light verse)
Poems and Portraits, Garden City, N.Y., and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922 (poems)
Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard), and Famous Love Affairs, Garden City, N.Y., and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922 (light verse)
The Revolt of the Oyster, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922 (short stories)
The Old Soak’s History of the World, with Occasional Glances at Baycliff, L.I., and Paris, France, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924 (sketches)
Pandora Lifts the Lid, by Christopher Morley and Don Marquis, Murray Hill, N.Y.: George H. Doran Co., 1924 (novel)
The Awakening & Other Poems, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924 (poems; U.S. edition published by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925)
Words and Thoughts, a Play in One Act, New York and London: D. Appleton & Co., 1924 (play, acting edition)
The Dark Hours, Five Scenes From a History, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924 (play)
The Old Soak, a Comedy in Three Acts, New York and London: Samuel French, 1926 (play, acting edition)
Out of the Sea, a Play in Four Acts, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927 (play)
The Almost Perfect State, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927 (essays)
archy and mehitabel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927 (sketches, light verse)
Love Sonnets of a Cave Man, and Other Verses, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928 (light verse)
When the Turtles Sing, and Other Unusual Tales, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928 (short stories)
A Variety of People, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929 (short stories)
Off the Arm, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930 (novel)
archys life of mehitabel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1933 (sketches, light verse)
Master of the Revels, a Comedy in Four Acts, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934 (play)
Chapters for the Orthodox, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934 (short stories)
archy does his part, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935 (sketches, light verse)
Sun Dial Time, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936 (short stories)
The Old Soak, The Old Soak’s History of the World, Garden City, N.Y.: Sun Dial Press, 1937 (sketches; omnibus edition, excluding “Hail and Farewell” poems)
Sons of the Puritans, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939 (novel; edited by Christopher Morley)
the lives and times of archy and mehitabel, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940 (sketches, light verse; omnibus edition of archy and mehitabel, archys life of mehitabel and archy does his part; slightly abridged edition, 1943; with introduction by E.B. White, 1950)
The Best of Don Marquis, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1946 (sketches, light verse, poems, short stories)
La Rivolta Dell’Ostrica, Turin, Italy: Frassinelli Tipografo Editor Torino, 1947 (sketches)
archy e mehitabel, Milan, Italy: Garzanti, 1964 (sketches, light verse; in Italian)
gestatten archibald, Frankfurt, Germany: Pardon Bibliothek, 1965 (sketches, light verse; in German)
Everything’s Jake, Tacoma, Washington: The Non-Profit Press, 1978 (play)
Selected Letters of Don Marquis, collected and edited by William McCollum Jr., Stafford, Va.: Northwoods Press, 1982 (letters)
archyology: the long lost tales of archy and mehitabel, edited by Jeff Adams, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1996 (sketches, light verse)
archyology ii (the final dig): the long lost tales of archy and mehitabel, edited by Jeff Adams, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1998 (sketches, light verse)
the archy and mehitabel omnibus, London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1998 (sketches, light verse; omnibus edition of archy and mehitabel and archys life of mehitabel)
The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, edited by Michael Sims, New York: Penguin Books, 2006 (sketches, light verse)
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 (sketches, light verse)
Hermine & ihre kleine Gruppe fortschrittlicher Denker, translated by Maria Weber, Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2018 (sketches)
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The History of the Fighting Fourteenth, compiled by C.V. Tevis and D.R. Marquis, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1911 (regimental history, privately published)
Mr. Hawley Breaks Into Song, New York: Cheltenham Press, 1923 (light verse, privately published)
An Ode to Hollywood, 1929, (poem, privately published)
Her Foot is on the Brass Rail, New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1935 (sketch, privately published)
Fishing Stories, Hartford, Conn.: At the Sign of the Stone Book, 1941 (light verse, privately published)
