Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

	Cosmopolitan February, 1909 Click for larger image

1909

1. Cosmopolitan (February, 1909)   "Just Like a Cat" A Mike Flannery story. This story appears later in Mike Flannery, On Duty and Off. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The illustrations here were not used in the book. Thanks to George Belden who contributed the cover image.  [RGTPL]

1910

2. Woman's World (September, 1910)   "Wodelbert's Pseudo-Uncle"   A story. Illustrations by Henry J. Soulen. p 5, 28.  [HARPER]

1912

3. Century Magazine (November, 1912)   "Mr. Wellaway's Host"   A story. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh. p 3-13.  [RGTPL]

1915

4. Red Book (July, 1915)   "Henry"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. "Philo Gubb, the deteckative, confronts and solves a mystery in the transmigration of souls." p 511-519.  [HARPER]

1917

5. Woman's Home Companion (January, 1917)   "Tea at Five"   A story. "Which sets forth the delights and dangers of telling the truth." Illustrated by Henry Raleigh.  [RGTPL]
6. Green Book (August, 1917)   "Suffering Carrots"   A story. "The quaint story of Eleanor and Henry Henderby, who were so tender-hearted they would eat no meat and became green from too much spinish." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 377-384.  [HARPER]
7. Washington Post (November 18, 1917)   "Henry"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p MF5+.  [WASHPOST]
8. ADAPTATION: The Jacknife Man: A Comedy in Three Acts (1917)   Stage Play. 1917-1918. By Lee Wilson Dodd. Director: Robert Milton. Produced by the estate of Henry B. Harris. Performers: Frank Bacon, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Horace James, Freddy Verdi, Frank Morgan. (The title spelling here, "Jacknife" instead of "Jack-Knife," is as it was written.)  [HARPER]

	Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective September, 1918 Click for larger image

1918

9. BOOK: Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective (September, 1918)   SEE CONTENTS.Seventeen of the Philo Gubb stories. Twenty illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [EPBLIB]

1920

10. Red Cross Magazine (August, 1920)   "Billy Brad and the Middleman" A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 63-65, 78. "There is more than a touch of universal human nature in this whimsically wise tale of Billy Brad and his rows and rows of corn just waiting to be eaten. If you don't sympathize with Billy Brad, indeed, and his desire for dozens and dozens of Mammas, we miss our guess. Beneath Mr. Butler's entertaining story, however, lies a clear and simply reasoned explanation of fundamental economics that goes far deeper than the amused reader will at first suspect. Middleman baiters, especially, will find much food for thought in Uncle Peter Henry's remarks about Mr. Jones, the grocer."  [HARPER]
11. _____ (September, 1920)   "Billy Brad and His Lease" A Billy Brad story. "People other than youthful Billy Brad have been mystified by the intricacies of the lease question. In this story, Mr. Butler, in the genial form of Uncle Peter Henry, answers not only Billy Brad's doubts, but turns his wise and humorous searchlight on some things which all of us will be the better for recalling." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 62-64, 72.  [HARPER]

1921

12. MOTION PICTURE: The Disappearance of Ma'y Jane (1921)   Clever Comedies. Director: Webster Cullison. Performers: Victor Potel, Hughie Mack, Henry Mann, Max Ansher.  [HARPER]

1923

13. Independent (February 3, 1923)   "Judge Hooper for Henry Ford"   A Judge Hooper story.  [HARPER]

1928

14. Oilpull Magazine (August, 1928)   "Bruce of the Bar-None"   Part 2. A story. Illustrated by T. Wyatt Nelson. "Eddie Bruce, and Henry, a pair of regular cowboys, bored to death with dude ranches, decide to start a ranch of their own on the Arctic Circle, on a tundra range granted them by the Canadian government." This publication seems to have been produced by the OilPull Tractor Company (Advance-Rumely Thresher Company), La Porte Indiana.  [EPBLIB]

1931

15. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1931)   "The Case of Henry Beemis" A story. A tongue-in-cheek commentary on the book publishing business. Uncredited. p 403-04.  [HARPER]

	Atlantic Monthly March, 1931 Click for larger image

16. Delineator (April, 1931)   "Abode of Splendor"   A story. Illustrated by Everett Henry. p 38, 74.  [RGTPL]

1935

17. Writer's Digest (June, 1935)   "Ellis Parker Butler Talks on Humor"   By Henry Harrison. "Interviews With Notable Authors". p 11-13.  [LOCKE]
18. Argosy (September 21, 1935)   "The Prodigal's Return" A short story. "A family black sheep returns home in a strange way." Volume 258. Number 5. "The dusty remains of Henry Okth arrived at the old homestead in a candy box, but the funeral was postponed indefinitely." One illustration.  [ARGOSY, PULP]

1945

19. ANTHOLOGY: Laugh Your Head Off! (1945) "Philo Gubb, The Correspondence School Detective"   Printed in Philo Gubb as "The Hard-Boiled Egg." This is a miniature book, only 3x4.5 inches. Royce Publishers. Chicago. Originally came attached to a Get-Well card. Outside of card shows a dog in bed reading a book called "Funny Stories." The card says "This card will help you feel better!" Inside the dog is holding the book that contains complete stories by Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, O. Henry, Roarke Bradford, Edward Streeter and, of course, Ellis Parker Butler.  [EPBLIB]

1948

20. ANTHOLOGY: The St. Nicholas Anthology (1948) "The Rowena O'Toole Company"   A story. Illustrated by R. Kirby. Edited by Henry Steele Commanger with an introduction by May Lamberton Becker. New York: Random House.  [EPBLIB]

1982

21. Books at Iowa 37 (November, 1982)   "Lighting Out for the Territory Back East: Ellis Parker Butler, American Humorist"   By Henry B. Chapin.  [WEB]

1986

22. ANTHOLOGY: Fireside Book of Canadian Christmas (1986) "Christmas Grouch" Edited by Patrick Crean. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside. p 162-170. ISBN: 0889029903. pp 219.  [EPBLIB]
23. Journals of the Butler Society (1986)   "Ellis Parker Butler: American Humorist"   By Henry B. Chapin. Volume 3:1 (1986-1987). p 90-93.  [HARPER]

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