Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

1894

1. Midland Monthly (February, 1894)   "Evening"    [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post November 28, 1903 Click for larger image

1903

2. Saturday Evening Post (November 28, 1903)   "International Skull and Cross Bones, Ltd." A story. "A Practical Example of the Principles of 'High Finance.'" Drawn by Martin Justice. p 6-8, 26, 28.  [HANNIGAN]

1905

3. Saturday Evening Post (March 25, 1905)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent" A story. "How the Compendium of Universal Knowledge Secured a Maid for Mrs. Tarbro-Smith." Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. Later reworked into a chapter of Kilo. The name was spelled "Eliph Hewlett" in this edition. p 8-9.  [HANNIGAN]
4. _____ (September 23, 1905)   "Pete, the Circassian Horse" A story. "The story of a Hairy Wonder." Drawn by John Sloan. p 6-7,19.  [HANNIGAN]

1906

5. Saturday Evening Post (March 10, 1906)   "The Meanest Lady"   Humor. Not listed in HARPER. Short piece, three-quarters of a column. p 19.  [EPBLIB]
6. _____ (December 1, 1906)   "The Three Hundred" A Mike Flannery story. "How the New Spelling Came to Westcote." Illustrated by Gustavus C Widney. Later appears in Mike Flannery, On Duty and Off. p 8-9, 26-28.  [HANNIGAN]

1908

7. Saturday Evening Post (December 5, 1908)   "The Thin Santa Claus" A story. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. p 8-9, 36.  [HANNIGAN]

1909

8. Saturday Evening Post (February 6, 1909)   "Magazine Men" An article. Short bio with photo. p 22.  [EPBLIB]

	Saturday Evening Post February 6, 1909 Click for larger image

9. _____ (March 27, 1909)   "Mr. Billings' Pockets"   A story. "He Explains the Morning After." Illustrated by Gustavus C. Widney. Later published in The Water Goats and Other Troubles.  [EPBLIB]

1910

10. Saturday Evening Post (February 12, 1910)   "The Boom in Spooks" A story. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. "Why Do Dollar Watches With Brass Lids Come Back From Spirit Land?" p 11-12, 45.  [HANNIGAN]

1912

11. Saturday Evening Mail (August 24, 1912)   "A Homily on Dogs"   Illustrated by Dan Sayre Groesbeck.  [EPBLIB]

1916

12. Saturday Evening Post (July 8, 1916)   "Slim Finnegan" A Swatty story, but his name is "Ting Schwartz." Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. p 6-7, 65-66.  [HARPER]

1917

13. Saturday Evening Post (July 21, 1917)   "Mutual Spurs, Limited" A story. A tale of mentoring and self-improvement. p 35, 37.  [HARPER]
14. _____ (December 29, 1917)   "An Autobiography" An essay. Includes a photo of the author. p 23, 40.  [EPBLIB]

1918

15. VIGILANTES: Elyria Evening Telegram (February 25, 1918) "The Vigilantes"   Article by Butler about the Vigilantes organization. Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram; February 25, 1918; p 4.  [NPA]

	Saturday Evening Post April 13, 1918 Click for larger image

16. Saturday Evening Post (April 13, 1918)   "Big Money Billings" A story. Illustration by Herbert Johnson. p 19, 53-4.  [BEST]
17. VIGILANTES: Elyria Evening Telegram (July 5, 1918) "Old Glory"   Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram; July 5, 1918; p 3.  [NPA]
18. Saturday Evening Post (August 17, 1918)   "Letters from the Back" Fiction written as a series of letters to the front. p 45, 48.  [HARPER]
19. VIGILANTES: Trenton Evening Times (August 20, 1918) "You Won't Care"   Article. "Member, Author's Committee American Defense Society." Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times; August 20, 1918; p 6. Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune; August 28, 1918; p 3.  [NPA]
20. Saturday Evening Post (September 14, 1918)   "Matey" A story. Illustrated by Thelma Cudlipp. p 45-48.  [BEST]
21. _____ (October 12, 1918)   "Billy Brad, Convict" A Billy Brad story. Illustration by May Wilson Preston. p 32, 35.  [BEST, HARPER]
22. VIGILANTES: Elyria Evening Telegram (October 28, 1918) "Of Old the Good Ships Thundered"   Poem. Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram; October 28, 1918.  [NPA]

	Saturday Evening Post May 10, 1919 Click for larger image

1919

23. Saturday Evening Post (May 10, 1919)   "Romance" A story. Illustration by Will Grefe. p 12, 109.  [HARPER]
24. _____ (November 8, 1919)   "A Knight Without Reproach" A story. Illustration by S. Gordon Smyth. p 69-70.  [HARPER]

1920

25. Los Angeles Evening Herald (March 9, 1920)   "Ten Humor Rules Given by Author of 'Pigs is Pigs'"   Written by Adela Rogers St. John (b. 1894, d. 1988). Includes a photo of the author (the same photo as printed in July 1925 issue of Sunset Magazine) and a photo of the elder Butler with his son Ellis Olmsted (called "Ellis, Jr." in the caption). The similarly named article in Photoplay Magazine reprints major portions of this article. Ms. St. John was acting as publicist for King Vidor's film company (First National Pictures), which made the motion picture version of "Jack-Knife Man" this same year. Page 1 of Section 2.  [EPBLIB, HARPER]
26. Photoplay Magazine (November, 1920)   "Ten Rules for Humor" An article with an Ellis Parker Butler byline, written almost exclusively with quotes from Butler, but written with Butler in the third person. This article is a rewrite/reprint of the similarly named article in the Los Angeles Evening Herald. p 107, 123.  [EPBLIB]

1922

27. Saturday Evening Post (June 24, 1922)   "What Would the Boys We Were Think of Us Now?" An autobiographical essay. "The Boy I Used to be Decided That He Must be a Blacksmith. I Confess I Have Failed the Young Man." Includes a photo of Butler, aged 7. Illustrated by M. L. Blumenthal. p 8-9, 82, 85-6.  [RGTPL]
28. _____ (October 21, 1922)   "East is West" First of series of six signed advertisements for the motion picture "East is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Includes a photo of the author. p 129.  [HARPER]
29. _____ (October 28, 1922)   "East is West" Second in a series of six signed advertisements for the motion picture "East is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Volume 195. Number 18. p 50.  [HARPER]

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30. _____ (November 4, 1922)   "East is West" Third in a series of six signed advertisements for the motion picture "East Is West" starring Constance Talmadge. p 89.  [HARPER]
31. _____ (November 11, 1922)   "East is West" A series of signed advertisements for the motion picture "East Is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Includes a photo of the author. p 117.  [HARPER]
32. _____ (November 18, 1922)   "East is West" A series of signed advertisements for the motion picture "East is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Includes a photo of the author. p 110.  [HARPER]
33. _____ (November 25, 1922)   "East is West"   A series of signed advertisements for the motion picture "East Is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Cover by J. C. Leyendecker "Baby Chef and Turkey."  [HARPER]

1923

34. Saturday Evening Post (June 23, 1923)   "Into Each Life"   A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Cover by Norman Rockwell "Summer Vacation."  [RGTPL]

1924

35. Saturday Evening Post (July 19, 1924)   "Green Paint" A story. Illustrated by Walter De Maris. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 14, 52, 54.  [RGTPL]
36. _____ (November 22, 1924)   "A Good Sport"   Illustrated by Tony Sarg.  [BEST, EPBLIB]

	Saturday Evening Post December 6, 1924 Click for larger image

37. _____ (December 6, 1924)   "The Bum's Rush" A story. Illustrated by Raeburn Van Buren. p 32-33, 186-187.  [BEST, RGTPL]

1925

38. Saturday Evening Post (January 24, 1925)   "The Memoir Aristocratic" Story subtitled "As Done by the English Upper Classes (Typed by Ellis Parker Butler)". Printed in the "Short Turns and Encores" section. p 26, 51.  [HARPER]
39. _____ (May 23, 1925)   "Mascot" A story. Illustrated by Harry R. Davis. p 42, 50, 52, 54.  [BEST, RGTPL]
40. _____ (September 5, 1925)   "Telling Jedbury" A story. "Uncle Orlando would go driving down the road and all the bees for miles around would start right in and swarm to beat the band." Illustrated by Nate Collier. p 10, 118.  [BEST, RGTPL]
41. _____ (November 7, 1925)   "The Birds in the Bush"   Illustrated by Bartow V. V. Matteson.  [EPBLIB]

1926

42. Saturday Evening Post (January 16, 1926)   "Dictated to Doris" A story. Illustrated by R. M. Crosby. p 30, 32, 149, 150, 153.  [RGTPL]
43. Boston Evening Transcript (May 1, 1926)   "Ellis Parker Butler Emerges from the West"   By Louise Hubert Guyol. A biographical study. "Out of Muscatine Eastward Came the American Humorist as He Valiantly Climbed the Ladder of Fame." Includes a photo of the author by Robert H. Davis. Also reprinted in the Muscatine Journal.  [HARPER]
44. Saturday Evening Post (May 22, 1926)   "Millennium" A poem. p 175.  [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post June 26, 1926 Click for larger image

45. _____ (June 26, 1926)   "Montana Golf" A story. Golf and romance at the Pokatuk Country Club. Illustrated by Raeburn Van Buren. p 48, 68-72.  [RGTPL]

1930

46. Saturday Evening Post (October 25, 1930)   "Being Happy with Walter" A story. Illustrated by Henrietta McCaig Starrett. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 14-15, 50, 52.  [RGTPL]

1931

47. Saturday Evening Post (February 7, 1931)   "Graft Elimination" Humor. The author suggests that the United States get rid of political graft by adopting the election system of the Republic of Yump. p 92.  [RGTPL]

1933

48. Saturday Evening Post (December 23, 1933)   "Charles Darwin" Humor. p 24.  [HARPER]
49. _____ (December 30, 1933)   "The Sheep" A poem. p 24. The cover has a New Year's illustration drawn by J. C. Leyendecker.  [HARPER]

1934

50. Saturday Evening Post (January 13, 1934)   "Nature's Wisdom" A poem. p 59.  [RGTPL]
51. _____ (January 27, 1934)   "Western" A poem. p 24.  [HARPER]
52. _____ (March 10, 1934)   "The Whale" A poem. p 24.  [HARPER]

1958

53. ANTHOLOGY: The Saturday Evening Post Carnival Of Humor (1958) "Mascot"   Edited By Robert M. Yoder. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc.  [EPBLIB]

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