Notable Works
- Parnassus on Wheels (novel, 1917)
- Shandygaff (book of essays, 1918)
- The Haunted Bookshop (novel, 1919)
- Pipefuls (collection of humorous essays, 1920)
- Where the Blue Begins (satirical novel, 1922)
- The Powder of Sympathy (collection of humorous essays, 1923, illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan)
- Thunder on the Left (novel, 1925)
- Off the Deep End (collection of essays, 1928, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell)
- Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer (co-author with Ogden Nash, 1930)
- Seacoast of Bohemia ("history of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell)
- John Mistletoe (autobiographical novel, 1931)
- Ex Libris Carissimis (non-fiction writing based on lectures he presented at University of Pennsylvania, 1932)
- Shakespeare and Hawaii (non-fiction writing based on lectures he presented at University of Hawaii, 1933)
- Human Being (novel, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City NY, 1934)
- The Trojan Horse (novel, 1937)
- Kitty Foyle (novel, 1939)
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Textbook of Friendship (analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, 1944)
- The Old Mandarin (book of poetry, 1947)
- The Man Who Made Friends with Himself (his last novel, 1949)
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