[1] Stokes published established writers such as Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Buck, and Stephen Crane.

He also published beginning writers such as James Branch Cabell, Maria Montessori, and Percival Wren.

[3] Stokes was an opponent of the new Book Clubs of the 1920s, and of modern advertising methods such as billboards and radio ads.

Stokes died 1939, at age 82, in his home at 344 West 72nd Street, Manhattan.

[1][2] Many prominent people from the book industry attended his funeral service at the Church of the Incarnation (Episcopal).