Don Marquis (1878–1937)

Author of Archy and Mehitabel

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To whoever combined or wants to combine "The Best of Don Marquis" with "archyology": these are not the same work. "archyology" is pure archy, "Best of" contains some "old soak" and other stuff as well as some archy. "Sun dial time" and "Love sonnets of a caveman" are not the same as each other or "Best of" either.

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Archy and Mehitabel (1927) 1,090 copies

The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (1916) 372 copies

Archy's Life of Mehitabel (1934) 160 copies

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (2006) 137 copies

Archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel (1996) 114 copies

Archyology II: The Final Dig (1998) 39 copies

The Best of Don Marquis (1944) 37 copies

The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2011) 34 copies

The Archy and Mehitabel Omnibus (1998) 32 copies

Pandora Lifts the Lid (1924) 25 copies

Archy Does His Part (1935) 19 copies

Chapters for the Orthodox (1934) 10 copies

The Old Soak and Hail and Farewell (2005) 10 copies

The Old Soak's History of the World (1924) 9 copies

Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs (1924) 8 copies

The Cruise of the Jasper B. (1999) 8 copies

Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers (1916) 8 copies

Dreams & Dust (2007) 7 copies

Danny's Own Story (2008) 6 copies

Prefaces (1919) 6 copies

The Dark Hours: Five Scenes from a History (1926) 6 copies

The Almost Perfect State (1927) 6 copies

The Old Soak (2015) 5 copies

A Variety of People (1929) 4 copies

When The Turtles Sing, And Other Unusual Tales (1928) 4 copies

Sun Dial Time (1977) 4 copies

The revolt of the oyster, (1922) 4 copies

Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith (1921) 3 copies

Selected Letters of Don Marquis (1983) 3 copies

Poems and Portraits (2009) 3 copies

Carter and other people (1921) 3 copies

Why Abortion is Immoral 2 copies

Sons of the Puritans 2 copies

gestatten archibald. Intime Geständnisse (1965) 1 copy

[Don Marquis : box containing various pertaining to Archy and Mehitabel : a back-alley opera] 1 copy

the coming of archy [poem] 1 copy

the song of mehitabel [poem] 1 copy

Out of the sea 1 copy

Chi o che cosa secondo i casi 1 copy

Off the arm 1 copy

The Best Of Don Morley 1 copy

Lunch Time Musicals: Archy & Mehitabel / Sadie Thompson the Musical (2005) 1 copy

Her foot is on the brass rail 1 copy

Love Sonnets of a Cave Man 1 copy

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Nothing but the Truth (1991) — Contributor, some editions — 2,473 copies

Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contributor — 714 copies

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contributor — 439 copies

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contributor — 416 copies

Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Contributor — 337 copies

A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Contributor — 278 copies

The Literary Cat (1977) — Contributor — 241 copies

Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Contributor — 208 copies

The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Contributor — 146 copies

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Contributor — 135 copies

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 133 copies

Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributor — 114 copies

The Book of Cats (1976) — Contributor — 107 copies

The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 100 copies

Modern Essays (1921) — Contributor — 33 copies

An American Omnibus (1933) — Contributor — 31 copies

The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories (1964) — Contributor — 29 copies

Human? (1954) — Contributor — 29 copies

The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Shadow-eater (1917) — Preface, some editions — 10 copies

A Cavalcade of Collier's (1959) — Contributor — 10 copies

A Treasury of Doctor Stories (1946) — Contributor — 9 copies

Imp: The Poetry of Benjamin DeCasseres (1913) — Preface — 9 copies

The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies

1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies

Nothing Solemn: An anthology of comic verse (1973) — Contributor — 3 copies

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Contributor — 2 copies

American Short Stories: Anthology [Mi-Sefarim Amerikai'im: Antologiyah shel Ha-Sipur Ha-Ketsar Ha-Amerkai] — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name: Marquis, Donald Robert Perry
Birthdate: 1878-07-29
Date of death: 1937-12-29
Burial location: Kew Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Walnut, Illinois, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: Walnut, Illinois, USA (birth)
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA (death)
Education: Knox Academy
Walnut High School
Occupations: literary journalist
novelist
playwright
poet
Relationships: Marquis, Reina Melcher (wife)
Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1923)
Disambiguation notice: To whoever combined or wants to combine "The Best of Don Marquis" with "archyology": these are not the same work. "archyology" is pure archy, "Best of" contains some "old soak" and other stuff as well as some archy. "Sun dial time" and "Love sonnets of a caveman" are not the same as each other or "Best of" either.

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The Best of Don Marquis. With an introduction by… by Donald Robert Perry MARQUIS

Most famous as the creator of the comic duo, Archie and Mehitabel, Marque had other solid columns, and short pieces to his credit. His place in American Literature of the twentieth Century is assured. This is quite a pleasant read, even today.

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DinadansFriend | 2 other reviews | Jun 13, 2023 |

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis

Verse & cartoons about a cockroach named "archy" who's a reincarnation of a free-verse poet & "mehitabel", a cat who's a reincarnation of Cleopatra. It's typed in lower-case b/c the cockroach isn't strong enuf to make the upper-case letters. I reckon this is an off-hand tribute to e e cummings but maybe not since cummings wd've been around 20 when this 1st appeared in the papers in 1916. Maybe cummings was influenced by marquis?

Anyway, when I 1st ran across this I probably thought that it had a strong premise & that's why I read it. However, I don't remember being ultimately that impressed by it. Hollywood shd do a remake w/ special effects & lots of inter-species sex.… (more)

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tENTATIVELY | 18 other reviews | Apr 3, 2022 |

archys life of mehitabel by don marquis

One of the funniest books I have ever read.

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Zambaco | Apr 22, 2018 |

archy and mehitabel by Don Marquis

A potent mix of witty free form poetry and some top-notch drawings by Herriman make this volume a definite winner. These pieces originally appeared in newspapers and magazines in the 1916-1926 era, and numerous topical references to Prohibition and the like still keep their humour. A lot more thoughtful than many other pieces considered weightier.