Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

	Blue Book January, 1916 Click for larger image

1916

1. Blue Book (January, 1916)   "Jabez Bunker" Reprinted later as "The First Gold Brick." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [HARPER]
2. Red Book (January, 1916)   "The Carnival of Crime"   A Philo Gubb story. p 589-98.  [HARPER]
3. Illustrated Sunday Magazine (January 16, 1916)   "Mrs. Callan's Absolute Happiness"    [HARPER]
4. Blue Book (February, 1916)   "Working South"   A Jabez Bunker story. p 747-754.  [EPBLIB]
5. McBride's (February, 1916)   "The Dead Line"    [RGTPL]
6. Red Book (February, 1916)   "This Style, $20"   A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
7. Bedford Gazette (February 11, 1916)   "Untitled"   A poem. A limerick. Illustrated. Bedford (Pennsylvania) Gazette; February 11, 1916; p 2.  [NPA]
8. American Magazine (March, 1916)   "Mamie's Father"   A Swatty story. "Get back to boyhood with Butler -- and smile reminiscently." Illustrations by W. B. King.  [RGTPL]
9. Blue Book (March, 1916)   "The Air-Tapper"   A Jabez Bunker story. Later reprinted as "Tapping the Air" in World Magazine, December 3, 1916. p 1003-1012.  [HARPER]
10. Mother's Magazine (March, 1916)   "The Party"    [HARPER]
11. Red Book (March, 1916)   "The Parmiller Pounds"   A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
12. American Magazine (April, 1916)   "When the Ice Goes Out"   A Swatty story. "A story showing how a married man's bark may be worse than his bite." Illustrated by W. B. King.  [RGTPL]
13. Blue Book (April, 1916)   "The Gold Brick"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
14. Ladies' Home Journal (April, 1916)   "Dominie Dean"   Part one. "'Thusia Fragg Whirls Him Into the Vortex of Riverbank Scandal." Illustrations by F. R. Gruger. By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. Volume 33, Number 4. p 16, 98-100.  [RGTPL]
15. Railroad Telegrapher (April, 1916)   "Eggs Is Eggs" A story. Published at St. Louis Mo. by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Vol. XXXIII #4.  [EBAY]
16. Red Book (April, 1916)   "The Kinwiller Case"   A Philo Gubb story.  [EPBLIB]
17. Blue Book (May, 1916)   "Jabez Bunker's War Baby"  [HARPER, PULP]
18. Green Book (May, 1916)   "Ellis Parker Butler, Flushing's Foremost Citizen"    [HARPER]
19. Ladies' Home Journal (May, 1916)   "Dominie Dean"   Part two. By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. One illustration by F. R. Gruger. p 24, 93-5.  [RGTPL]
20. London Magazine (May, 1916)   "The Grey-Green Fur"   Illustrated by Leonard Shields.  [EBAY]
21. Red Book (May, 1916)   "The Ghatghee"   A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
22. Popular Magazine (May 7, 1916)   "The Ambition of Barnabee Holt" A story. "Every time Rodge Williams got liquor -- and no one ever discovers how he gets it -- his loftiest ambition is to steal a chicken from Dave Roscoe, which leads to political complications." p 78-85.  [HARPER, FICTIONMAGS]
23. Blue Book (June, 1916)   "A Prisoner Pro Tem"   A Jabez Bunker story. Later reprinted as "The Spanish Prisoner Game."  [HARPER]

	Green Book June, 1916 Click for larger image

24. Green Book (June, 1916)   "Why He Married Her" A story. "She talked him to sleep and this won his love; one of Mr. Butler's best tales." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 1050-53.  [EPBLIB]
25. Ladies' Home Journal (June, 1916)   "Dominie Dean"   Part three. "Although he won without losing, yet he won by losing" By Ellis Parker Butler and James B. Dare. One illustration by F. R. Gruger. p 24, 76-7.  [RGTPL]
26. Red Book (June, 1916)   "In the Dark!"   A Philo Gubb story. "The twenty-seventh of the stories of Philo Gubb, the famous correspondence-school detective." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 351+  [HARPER]
27. Woman's Home Companion (June, 1916)   "Millingham Decides" A story. "and so does Mrs. Millingham! Thereby settling forever the question as to whether husband or wife selects the family motor." Illustrated by W. B. King. p 5-6.  [RGTPL]
28. Blue Book (July, 1916)   "Saturday Afternoon" A Jabez Bunker story. One illustration. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Jabez Bunker, the amateur bunco-steerer from Iowa who comes East to take in the Wise Men of Gotham, evolves a Machiavellian plot and engineers his coup with subtle artistry." Volume XXIII. Number 3.  [EPBLIB, FICTIONMAGS, PULP]
29. Green Book (July, 1916)   "Phantom Fingers"    [HARPER]
30. Red Book (July, 1916)   "The Needle, Watson"   A Philo Gubb story. "Introducing a new character in the stories of Philo Gubb, the correspondence-school deteckative." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 607-16.  [HARPER]
31. 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]

	Saturday Evening Post July 8, 1916 Click for larger image

32. Blue Book (August, 1916)   "T. Jebberson"   A Jabez Bunker story. "Jabez Bunker invades the lair of a professional stock-promoter and comes away with three thousand dollars shorn from the shearer." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 761-69.  [EPBLIB]
33. Red Book (August, 1916)   "The Dark Closet"   A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
34. American Magazine (September, 1916)   "The Haunted House"   A Swatty story. "This story of the spooky adventure of three boys will carry you back to some of the forgotten thrills of your childhood." Illustrations by W. B. King.  [RGTPL]
35. Blue Book (September, 1916)   "Much Mentioned Men" The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [HARPER, PULP]
36. Pictorial Review (September, 1916)   "One Quiet Summer" A story. "In Which Things Happen that Are Not in the Scenario." Illustrations by F. C. Yohn. p 18-19,63+  [EPBLIB]
37. Red Book (September, 1916)   "Too Much Gubb"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 982-991.  [HARPER]
38. Authors' League Bulletin (October, 1916)   "A Supplementary Report from the Sub-Committee"   Full title: "A Supplementary Report from the Sub-Committee on Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor."  [HARPER]
39. Blue Book (October, 1916)   "Putting the Con in Connoisseur"   A Jabez Bunker story. "Jabez Bunker with all his might a neat little bit of bunco-work which he found to do." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 1262-69.  [HARPER, PULP]

	Pictorial Review September, 1916 Click for larger image

40. Girl's Own Paper (October, 1916)   "Mr. Millingham Decides"   A story. The volume and page number are correct; the date might be wrong. Volume 37. p 685.  [WEB]
41. Green Book (October, 1916)   "Rushing Her"    [HARPER, RGTPL]
42. Red Book (October, 1916)   "The Hound of the Tankervilles" A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
43. Blue Book (November, 1916)   "Honest Graft"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
44. Harper's Monthly Magazine (November, 1916)   "Quarrelsome Club"   133:945-7.  [RGTPL]
45. Red Book (November, 1916)   "The Tenth of June"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 129-138.  [HARPER]
46. World Magazine (November 19, 1916)   "The First Gold Brick"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
47. Blue Book (December, 1916)   "Proxy"    [HARPER]
48. Green Book (December, 1916)   "The Murderer" A story. "Not since 'The Lady of the Tiger' has there been written so clever a story of this type: Mr. Butler, you will discover, can be serious most effectively." Illustrated by Arthur Button. p 1081-86.  [HARPER]

	Ladies' World December, 1916 Click for larger image

49. Ladies' World (December, 1916)   "Wings" A Billy Brad story. "The story of a little boy who did not get what he wanted for Christmas." Illustrated by C. H. Taffs. p 6, 38.  [HARPER]
50. Red Book (December, 1916)   "Who Would Steal a Pump?"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 354.  [EPBLIB]
51. World Magazine (December 3, 1916)   "Tapping the Air"   Reprint of "The Air-Tapper." p 7+.  [HARPER]
52. _____ (December 17, 1916)   "Jabez Bunker's War Baby"    [HARPER]
53. _____ (December 24, 1916)   "The Spanish Prisoner Game"   Same as "A Prisoner Pro Tem."  [HARPER]
54. MOTION PICTURE: Ducks is Ducks (1916)   Metro/Rolma 1916. Performers: Max Figman, Lolita Robertson.  [HARPER]
55. MOTION PICTURE: In the Dark (1916)   Serial. Director: Pierce Kingsley. Performers: Edwin Stevens, May Trado. Script available on microfilm #LU9272 from the Library of Congresss.  [HARPER]
56. ADAPTATION: Mrs. Dugan's Discovery (1916) Recording. Columbia Gramophone #A-1940. Performer: Steve Porter (b. 1865?, d. 1946). Steve Porter was a recording industry pioneer. He recorded comic sketches as early as 1897 (often in Irish dialect) and was a baritone singer with the American Quartet. This recording follows the original story with some alterations. archive.org has a substantial collection of Steve Porter's works available online.  [HARPER, WEB]

	Mrs. Dugan's Discovery 1916 Click for larger image

57. Pleiades Club Year Book (1916)   "A Specimen of Prose Libre"   Satire. "Invented by Ellis Parker Butler" Illustrated by Jo Lemon. Book is dated 1915-1916. Printed by Howard A. Dudley Company, New York. p 84-85.  [HARPER]
58. MOTION PICTURE: The Chicken (1916)   Serial. Based on "Philo Gubb and the Chicken." Director: Pierce Kingsley. Performers: Edwin Stevens, May Trado.  [HARPER]
59. MOTION PICTURE: The Hard-Boiled Egg (1916)   Serial. Based on "Philo Gubb." Director: Pierce Kingsley. Performers: Edwin Stevens, May Trado. Script available on microfilm #LU9270 from the Library of Congress.  [HARPER]
60. MOTION PICTURE: The Model Cook (1916)   Metro/Drew. Director: Sidney Drew. Screenwriter: Ellis Parker Butler. Performers: Sidney Drew, Lucille McVey (Mrs. Sidney Drew). See IMDB.  [HARPER, IMDB]

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