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  1. Family Circle (1936)   "E. P. B. by E. P. B."   HARPER does not list a specific date.  [HARPER]
  2. New York Times (September 14, 1937)   "E. P. Butler Dead; Noted Humorist"   Obituary. "His 'Pigs is Pigs' Made Nation Laugh Thirty Years Ago -- Author of 32 Books. Wrote Poetry as Child. Had Served as Bank Executive in Flushing Where He Lived 30 Years -- Succumbs at 67." Includes a photo of the author.  [CHAPIN, NYTIMES]
  3. Betzville Tales (March 3, 1910)   "Ebenezer Spillgath and the Calf"   Illustrated by Peter Newell. Printed this date in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Daily Press.  [NPA]
  4. New York Herald Magazine (May 19, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt and 'By Jocks'"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "A Deathbed Transaction: Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent, Beats Death".  [HARPER]
  5. _____ (April 21, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt and His Tainted Millions"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "A Dissertation Upon Tainted Money".  [HARPER]
  6. _____ (March 17, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt and the Big Stick"   Commentary. p 14. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "More Light on Simplified Spelling".  [HARPER]
  7. _____ (May 26, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt in Defeat"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Eliph' Hewlitt's Waterloo: Succumbs to the Human Cyclopedium".  [HARPER]
  8. _____ (April 7, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt in the 400"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "He Tells a Tall Tale and Makes a Cash Sale".  [HARPER]
  9. _____ (March 24, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Match Maker"   Commentary. p 11. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Makes a Match and Makes a Sale".  [HARPER]
  10. _____ (April 28, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt on Moving Day"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "A Bad Day for Book Agents: Eliph' Hewlitt Finds Moving Day Bad for Business".  [HARPER]
  11. _____ (May 12, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt on Office Holding"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Presidents and Town Pumps: Eliph' Hewlitt Convinces a Public Official".  [HARPER]
  12. _____ (March 10, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt on the Race Question"   Commentary. p 11. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "A Discourse Upon the Race Question".  [HARPER]
  13. _____ (April 14, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Pirate"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Jarby's Encyclopedia for a Pirate Crew".  [HARPER]
  14. Long Island Daily Star (September 14, 1937)   "Ellis P. Butler, Flushing Writer, Dead at Age of 68"   Obituary.  [HARPER]
  15. New York Sun (September 14, 1937)   "Ellis P. Butler, Humorist, Is Dead"   Obituary.  [HARPER]
  16. New York Herald Tribune (September 14, 1937)   "Ellis P. Butler, of 'Pigs Is Pigs' Fame, Is Dead"   Obituary. p 20.  [HARPER]
  17. 'Ellis Parker Butler' from People's Home Journal (April, 1915)
  18. People's Home Journal (April, 1915)   "Ellis Parker Butler" Click here to see a picture of this item.Autobiographical piece. Includes a picture of the author. p 3.  [EPBLIB]
  19. BOOK: My Maiden Effort (1921) "Ellis Parker Butler" Click here to see a picture of this item.An essay. This book is subtitled "The Personal Confessions of Well Known American Authors. Collected by the Authors' League of America" There's a one-page essay where Butler recalls his first published works saying "I've been a hard-working hack. I've earned what I got." Edited by Gelett Burgess. Garden City N. Y. and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Company. Page 34.  [EPBLIB]
  20. Our American Humorists (1922) "Ellis Parker Butler"   By Thomas Lansing Masson. Masson was one of three editors who urged Butler to move to NYC. Masson was literary and managing editor of "Life" starting in 1893. Chapter 6. p 73-90. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.  [HARPER]
  21. Midland Schools (January, 1928)   "Ellis Parker Butler"   By Frank Luther Mott. p 163-65.  [HARPER]
  22. A Book of Iowa Authors By Iowa Authors (1930) "Ellis Parker Butler"   By Frank Luther Mott. Reprinted from JAN-1928(?). The book is edited by Johnson Brigham (State Librarian) in cooperation with Charles F. Pye and F. A. Welch. Des Moines: Iowa State Teachers Association. Includes a photo of the author. p 33-42.  [EPBLIB]
  23. Authors' League Bulletin (October, 1937)   "Ellis Parker Butler"   Obituary. By Will Irwin. p 4-5.  [HARPER]
  24. BOOK: Twentieth Century Authors (1942) "Ellis Parker Butler"   "A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature" Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz. Includes an extended autobiography written by Butler just before his death. Includes a photo of the author. New York: H. W. Wilson Company.  [HARPER]
  25. 'Ellis Parker Butler' from Iowa Authors (1967)
  26. Iowa Authors (1967) "Ellis Parker Butler" Click here to see a picture of this item.By Frank Paluka. "A Bio-bibliography of Sixty Native Writers" Iowa City, Iowa: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, paperback issue, green wraps, 244pp. p 18-21.  [EPBLIB]
  27. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature (2001) "Ellis Parker Butler" Click here to see a picture of this item.Edited by Philip A. Greasley. "Volume One: The Authors" Indiana University Press. May 1, 2001. Hardcover. ISBN 0253336090. p 90-91.  [GOOGLE BOOKS]
  28. 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]
  29. Green Book (May, 1916)   "Ellis Parker Butler, Flushing's Foremost Citizen"    [HARPER]
  30. Muscatine Journal (September 13, 1937)   "Ellis Parker Butler, Once Resident Here, Goes in Death at 67"   Obituary.  [HARPER]
  31. _____ (June 24, 1933)   "Ellis Parker Butler Praises 'Home Town'"   "Noted Author, Native of City, Remembers Old Friends."  [HARPER]
  32. Marion Daily Star (May 5, 1897)   "An Exception"   A poem. Reprinted from Truth. Marion (Ohio) Daily Star; May 5, 1897.  [NPA]
  33. BOOK: An Experiment in Gyro-Hats (1910)   A short story. Five illustrations by Albert Levering. This edition was a special printing by the Q and C Company, New York and Chicago. The inside back cover lists "American Bank Note Company, N. Y." The book itself is undated but HARPER says it was printed "later the same year," referring to the Hampton's publication.  [EPBLIB]

Anthologies

  1. Science Fiction by Gaslight (1968) "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats"   No illustrations. The book is subtitled "A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911." Editor Sam Moskowitz. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company.  [EPBLIB]

Periodicals (Prose)

    'E. P. Butler Literature Factory' from Century Magazine (August, 1913)
  1. Century Magazine (August, 1913)   "E. P. Butler Literature Factory" Click here to see a picture of this item.A letter to the editor. p 638.  [EPBLIB]
  2. Red Book (September, 1914)   "The Eagle's Claws" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. Later printed in Philo Gubb. "Philo Gubb takes the trail of an artistic bit of tattoo decoration." p 959-970.  [EPBLIB]
  3. Puck (May 1, 1915)   "The Earning Point"    [HARPER]
  4. Saturday Evening Post (October 21, 1922)   "East is West" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  5. _____ (October 28, 1922)   "East is West" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  6. _____ (November 4, 1922)   "East is West" Click here to see a picture of this item.Third in a series of six signed advertisements for the motion picture "East Is West" starring Constance Talmadge. p 89.  [HARPER]
  7. _____ (November 11, 1922)   "East is West" Click here to see a picture of this item.A series of signed advertisements for the motion picture "East Is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Includes a photo of the author. p 117.  [HARPER]
  8. _____ (November 18, 1922)   "East is West" Click here to see a picture of this item.A series of signed advertisements for the motion picture "East is West" starring Constance Talmadge. Includes a photo of the author. p 110.  [HARPER]
  9. 'East is West' from Saturday Evening Post magazine (November 18, 1922)
  10. _____ (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]
  11. Atlantic Monthly (September, 1930)   "Easy as Pie"   Humor. Published in "the Contributor's Club" section. Butler's solution to the Prohibition question. Uncredited. p 420-421.  [HARPER]
  12. Young's Magazine (June, 1914)   "Easy-Going Godfrey"    [HARPER]
  13. Short Stories (December, 1911)   "Easy Money"    [HARPER]
  14. Everybody's Magazine (October, 1919)   "Economic Waste" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. "The story of a hard-hit conscience." Illustrated by Edward M. Ashe. The name Ellis Parker Butler appears on the cover. p 46+  [RGTPL]
  15. Every Week (September 1, 1935)   "Eddie and the Right Idea"   A story. "The Dolans were on relief, and Ma Dolan thought the discouragement of not being able to find work might ruin her boy, so she found a plan." Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in the Lima (Ohio) News. Also, Washington Post on the same date; p SM8.  [NPA, WASHPOST]
  16. Grit (Story Section) (January 2, 1938)   "The Efficient Miss Simms"   A story. "Nine P. M. New Years Eve -- and Bob Walsh Learns He Has Three Hours to Marry In Order to Collect a Fortune"  [EPBLIB]
  17. American Magazine (January, 1929)   "Egbert The First"   Illustrated by Herbert Paus. "The story of the Suspender King who took a hitch in his own galluses."  [RGTPL]
  18. Illustrated Sunday Magazine (February 6, 1910)   "Eggs Is Eggs"    [HARPER]
  19. 'Eggs Is Eggs' from Railroad Telegrapher magazine (April, 1916)
  20. Railroad Telegrapher (April, 1916)   "Eggs Is Eggs" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Published at St. Louis Mo. by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Vol. XXXIII #4.  [EBAY]
  21. Holland's Magazine (May, 1927)   "The Eight-Ounce Rod"    [HARPER]
  22. College Humor (January, 1930)   "The Eighty-Seven Napoleans" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Illustrated by Walter Schmidt. p 74-5, 114-17.  [EPBLIB]
  23. Saturday Evening Post (March 25, 1905)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  24. Century Magazine (January, 1902)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Castaway"   A Kilo story. With pictures by Frederic Dorr Steele. This story repeats as chapter 6 in Kilo. p 434-440.  [RGTPL]
  25. Smart Set (March, 1906)   "Eliph' Hewlitt, Elucidator"    [HARPER]
  26. New York Herald Magazine (May 5, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt on the North Pole"   Commentary. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Guidebook to the North Pole: Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent, Sells the Ice Man".  [HARPER]
  27. _____ (March 31, 1907)   "Eliph' Hewlitt -- The Millinery Problem"   Commentary. p 2. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "The Millinery Problem Solved At Last".  [HARPER]
  28. Judge (November 3, 1906)   "Ellis Parker Butler, Author and Humorist -- An Autobiography"    [HARPER]
  29. 'Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent' from Saturday Evening Post magazine (March 25, 1905)
  30. New York Times (March 29, 1911)   ""Yawp""   A letter to the editor. "Ellis Parker Butler Identifies the Lampton with the Telephonic Variety." The third of four letters in a series. p 12.  [NYTIMES]
  31. Daily Princetonian (March 27, 1925)   "Ellis Parker Butler Sermonizes Delightfully on Princeton Spirit"    [HARPER]
  32. Short Stories (December, 1917)   "The Elopement"    [HARPER]
  33. Woman's World (September, 1913)   "Emancipating Mother" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Illustrations by Alexander Popini. p 7-8, 16.  [EPBLIB]
  34. Ideal House (November, 1906)   "Empire Textiles"    [HARPER]
  35. Green Book (April, 1915)   "Enlisting the Deaness"    [HARPER]
  36. Mohawk Rug Retailer (February-March, 1933)   "Enough Is Sufficient"    [HARPER]
  37. Maclean's (June 1, 1930)   "Enter Fate With a Flat"    [HARPER]
  38. Grand Magazine (September, 1930)   "Enter Fate-Punctured" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story.  [FICTIONMAGS]
  39. Judge (March 11, 1911)   "The Enthusiastic Moment"    [HARPER]
  40. Country Life in America (January, 1910)   "The Equine Palace"   "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." Part four of seven. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [RGTPL]
  41. 'The Ethiopian Dip' from Century Magazine (December, 1913)
  42. Century Magazine (December, 1913)   "The Ethiopian Dip" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Pictures by Reginald Birch. p 200-208.  [RGTPL]
  43. Canadian Magazine (February, 1926)   "The Ethiopian Dip"   A story. "A miss by the missus! She thinks she can throw!" Drawings by Reginald Birch. p 20-21, 34-35.  [RGTPL]
  44. Sun and the Globe (June 19, 1923)   "Even English Humor Broad"    [HARPER]
  45. American Magazine (December, 1921)   "Everybody Thinks Everybody Else is Ungrateful"   An essay. Not illustrated. "That's the real reason we love dogs: because they give us twenty dollars worth of gratitude for ten cents' worth of dog meat."  [RGTPL]
  46. Zest (October, 1926)   "Everything Next"    [HARPER, PULP]
  47. American Magazine (June, 1925)   "Excess Baggage"   An essay. Includes a photo of the author by Clarence H. Boden.  [RGTPL]
  48. Collier's (May 28, 1910)   "The Exciting Life" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. "Animating a Cow. in Some Respects. Has a Political Parallel." "S. Potts and Daniel." Illustrated by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. p 17.  [RGTPL]
  49. Pall Mall Magazine (January, 1911)   "The Exciting Life"    [HARPER]
  50. Truth (January 1, 1898)   "The Execution of Darius"    [HARPER]
  51. 'Exit Mr. Tumult and Miss Shouting' from Carry On magazine (October-November, 1918)
  52. Carry On (October-November, 1918)   "Exit Mr. Tumult and Miss Shouting" Click here to see a picture of this item.An essay. p 11-12. Volume I. Number 4. "A Magazine on the Reconstruction of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors."  [HARPER]
  53. New York Times (December 1, 1918)   "Exit Mr. Tumult and Miss Shouting"   A story. p 41.  [NYTIMES]
  54. Hampton's Magazine (June, 1910)   "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. Illustrations by Albert Levering. Published as a booklet later the same year. p 799-808.  [HARPER]
  55. Amazing Stories (June, 1926)   "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. This science fiction magazine was published by Hugo Gernsback (b. 1884, d. 1967). One illustration by Frank R. Paul. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Volume 1, Number 3.  [PULP]
  56. Washington Post (June 22, 1919)   "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats"   A story. Illustrated by Albert Levering. p SM2+.  [WASHPOST]
  57. Up to Date (June 5, 1897)   "Extracts from Dough-Faced Dan, the Boy-Detective"   "or, The Hidden Treasure of Hoboken."  [HARPER]
  58. Argosy (July 14, 1923)   "The Extroducer" Click here to see a picture of this item.A story. One illustration. p 957-60.  [ARGOSY, PULP]

Periodicals (Poetry)

  1. Truth (February 29, 1896)   "Easily Satisfied"    [HARPER]
  2. Midland Monthly (February, 1894)   "Evening"    [HARPER]
  3. Up to Date (September 5, 1896)   "Except the English"    [HARPER]
  4. Truth (April 15, 1897)   "An Exception"    [HARPER]

Related Materials

    'Ellis Parker Butler' from Handwriting Analysis (1959)
  1. Handwriting Analysis (1959) "Ellis Parker Butler" Click here to see a picture of this item.This book contains a brief analysis of Butler's character from a sample of his handwriting. "The Art and Science of Reading Character" by M. N. Bunker, founder, International Grapho Analysis Society. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Company, Publishers. Pages 27-29.  [EPBLIB]
  2. Journals of the Butler Society (1986)   "Ellis Parker Butler: American Humorist"   By Henry B. Chapin. Volume 3:1 (1986-1987). p 90-93.  [HARPER]
  3. Yellowback Library (October, 1997)   "Ellis Parker Butler and Jibby Jones"   By Gil O'Gara. Number 160. p 12-16. Informed commentary on the Jibby Jones stories, especially when viewed as collectables along with "serial books, dime novels and related literature."  [EPBLIB]
  4. Washington Post (December 10, 1922)   "Ellis Parker Butler Head of Authors' Clan"   A notice. p 67.  [WASHPOST]
  5. Western Illinois Regional Studies (1982)   "Ellis Parker Butler: Popular Humorist at the Turn of the Century"   By Jeffrey J. Folks. Includes a photograph of Ellis Parker Butler. Volume 5.1. p 38-53.  [HARPER]
  6. Writer's Digest (June, 1935)   "Ellis Parker Butler Talks on Humor"   By Henry Harrison. "Interviews With Notable Authors". p 11-13.  [LOCKE]



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