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The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925
SIGNATURES

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Franklin Abbott

Achmed Abdullah

Mary Aldis

George William Amis

Sherwood Anderson

Egmont Arens

Mary Austin

Eugene S. Bagger

Bardar

Winslow M. Bell

William Rose Benét

Florence Blackstone

Paul J. Blackstone

David William Bone

Albert Boni

Charles Boni

Ernest Augustus Boyd

Will Bradley

Berton Braley

Max M. Breslow

Heywood Broun

Albert Brush

Arthur Caesar

Henry Seidel Canby

Jonathan Cape

Gene Carr

Oscar Edward Cesare

Christine Challenger

Betty Ross Clarke

Helen Louise Cohen

Alta May Coleman

Seward Collins

Frank Conroy

George Cram Cook

John Cournos

Bosworth Crocker

J. Vincent Crowne

Homer Croy

Mary Carolyn Davies

Helena Smith Dayton

Fred Erving Dayton

Floyd Dell

S. A. DeWitt

Roy Dickinson

Charles Divine

Alice Willits Donaldson

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

Joseph Drum

Robert L. Eaton

Laurie York Erskine

Wilfred Ewart

Henry Guy Fangel

John Chipman Farrar

Hugh Ferriss

Arthur Davison Ficke

John Bernard Flannagan

Dwight Franklin

James Earle Fraser

Joseph Lewis French

Robert Frothingham

Barney Gallant

Porter Garnett

Susan Glaspell

Montague Glass

Joseph Gollomb

Herbert S. Gorman

Stephen Graham

Dorothy L. A. Grant

Harry Wagstaff Gribble

William Gropper

Louise Closser Hale

Harry Hansen

Sadakichi Hartmann

Josephine Herbst

John Herrmann

W. E. Hill

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Robert Cortes Holliday

Terence Holliday

Guy Holt

Holland Hudson

Peter Lord Templeton Hunt

Frank Townsend Hutchens

Lewis Jackson

Norman Jacobsen

Rutger Bleecker Jewett

Orrick Johns

Merle De Vore Johnson

Jeanne Judson

Harry Kemp

Bernice Lesbia Kenyon

John G. Kidd

William A. (William Albion) Kittredge

Eastwood Lane

Lawrence Langner

Christian Leden

Courtenay Lemon

Sinclair Lewis

Ludwig Lewisohn

Max Liebermann

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Preston Lockwood

Hendrick Willem Van Loon

Lingard Loud

Pierre Loving

Orson Lowell

C. R. Macauley

Kenneth Macgowan

Lawton Mackall

Hector MacQuarrie

John Albert Macy

Jane Mander

Don Marquis

H. A. Mathes

William McFee

Alexander McKay

Hawley McLanahan

Charles M. McLean

Ada Jaffray McVickar

Scudder Middleton

George Middleton

John Mistletoe

Roy Mitchell

Christopher Morley

Robert Nathan

Dudley Nichols

Robert Nichols

Charles Norman

Joseph Jefferson O'Neil

Florence O'Neill

Ivan Opffer

Martha Ostenso

Lou Paley

Edmund Lester Pearson

Basil H. Pillard

Ethel McClellan Plummer

Alexander Popini

William MacLeod Raine

Ben Ray Redman

Charles J. Reed

Lola Ridge

Felix Riesenberg

W. Adolphe Roberts

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin (Ted) Meade Robinson

Bruce Rogers

L. Stuart Rose

Herb Roth

Edward Royce

Tony Sarg

Jacob Salwyn Schapiro

Walter Schnackenberg

Thomas Seltzer

Fern Forrester Shay

Margaret Badollet Caldwell Shotwell

Emil Siebern

Upton Sinclair

John Sloan

Thorne Smith

David Tosh Smith

Robert A. Smith

Charles Somerville

Vincent Starrett

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Donald Ogden Stewart

Gordon Stiles

Emily Strunsky

Genevieve Taggard

Gardner Teall

Sara Teasdale

Lloyd M. Thomas

Basil Thompson

Paul Thompson

Helen Thurlow

Adolph Treidler

Peter Underhill

Harvey P. Vaughn

Walter Vodges

C. A. Voight

Mary Heaton Vorse

Webb Waldron

J. Leeming Walker

Foster Ware

John V. A. Weaver

Luther E. Widen

Edward Arthur Wilson

Lily Winner

Robert L. Wolf

Cuthbert Wright

Zorach

Theodore F. Zucker

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THE DOOR
Location on door: front, panel 2
CONNECTIONS

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Poets

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Theater

Three Hours for Lunch Club

Travel Writers

DON MARQUIS

The humorist, journalist, novelist and playwright Don Marquis (1878-1937) was friends with many visitors to Frank Shay's bookshop; this may be why he signed the door twice, once on the front and once on the back. Born in Illinois, Marquis worked for newspapers in several cities before reaching New York in 1909. In 1912 he began work at the Evening Sun and achieved his dream of becoming a daily newspaper columnist. In 1916, he began writing columns in the voice of his most enduring character, a free-verse poet reincarnated as a cockroach named Archy. Among his other characters were Hermione, a ditzy bohemian in Greenwich Village and The Old Soak, a cheerful drunk suffering through Prohibition. In 1922, Marquis left the Sun for the New York Tribune, and continued in the newspaper business for a few more years. Marquis's combination of light humor, sharp social critique, and linguistic acrobatics made him very popular in his day and widely admired by his literary contemporaries.

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    Creator: Marquis, Don, 1878-1937

    Title: archy's life of mehitabel

    Description: With typed inscription by archy, tipped in, and written inscription by Don Marquis

    Imprint: New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1933

    Item Date: 1933

    Material Type: Monographs


    Curatorial Department: Book Collection

    Collection Name: Christopher Morley Library

    Stack Location: PS 3525 A67 A87 1933 MOR

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Don Marquis's and Archy's inscriptions to Christopher Morley in a copy of Don Marquis's The Life and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1933)

Archy's earnest lower-case, free-verse poems, composed as he jumped from key to key on Marquis's typewriter late at night, are the venue for Marquis's incisive critiques of the excesses of experimental poetry and contemporary culture more generally. Many of the columns tell of Archy's time spent with his alley-cat friend Mehitabel, who claimed that she was reincarnated from Cleopatra.  The inscriptions in this book, one of several collections of Archy columns, symbolize the deep and long-lasting friendship between Marquis and Morley. As far as we know, this is the only book at the Ransom Center inscribed by an insect.