Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

1897

1. Up to Date (August 14, 1897)   "Blue"   A poem.  [HARPER]

	Success Magazine December, 1905 Click for larger image

1905

2. Success Magazine (December, 1905)   "A Blue-label Saint" A story. "How Kriss Kringle, St. Patrick, and the Labor Union Delegates Got Mixed." Illustrated by Horace Taylor. p 802-04.  [EPBLIB]

1906

3. Smart Set (January, 1906)   "Mitland, of the Blues"    [HARPER]
4. Monthly Story Magazine (February, 1906)   "A Christmas Stop-Over" A story. HARPER calls this publication "The Monthly Magazine." Monthly Story was founded in MAY-1905 and became the Blue Book Magazine in MAY-1907. p 641-647.  [FICTIONMAGS, PULP]

1911

5. Blue Book (August, 1911)   "The Super-Cook" A story. "A lightsome tale of an amusing domestic dilemma." p 894-896. Text and images contributed by John Locke.  [LOCKE, PULP]

1912

6. Blue Book (June, 1912)   "Mr. Wix and Progress"   As Zenda Warde.  [HARPER]
7. _____ (July, 1912)   "Ban Taggus"   As Zenda Warde. p 574-81.  [HARPER]
8. _____ (August, 1912)   "Mr. Pethlow's Auxiliary Buggy"   As Zenda Warde.  [HARPER]

1914

9. Blue Book (July, 1914)   "Pirate Gold"    [HARPER]
10. _____ (August, 1914)   "The Perfectly Lovely Lady"    [HARPER]
11. _____ (September, 1914)   "The Last Man" A novelette. The phrase "The most unusual story ever published 'The Last Man' by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Fate choose a commonplace book-keeper and a society belle to be the last people left on earth: their surprising adventures and their strange romance." p 929-949.  [EPBLIB]

	Blue Book September, 1914 Click for larger image

12. _____ (November, 1914)   "The Facts That Myra Hid"    [HARPER]
13. _____ (December, 1914)   "Arletta"    [HARPER]

1915

14. Blue Book (February, 1915)   "Mr. Truesdale Tells the Truth"   A story. "The poor man promised his wife to tell the exact truth: what happened to him." p 825-29.  [HARPER]
15. _____ (March, 1915)   "The Man Who Read The Journal"   A story. "A quaint and most unusual story, by the greatest humorist in America." p 1038-1044.  [EPBLIB]
16. _____ (September, 1915)   "Benny The Book-Agent" A story. "The first adventure of the inimitable Benny is the initial story of a joyous new series by the foremost humorist in America. Have a laugh with Benny -- on Benny!" Volume XXI. Number 5.  [EPBLIB]
17. _____ (October, 1915)   "A Whirl at Banking"  [HARPER]
18. _____ (November, 1915)   "Benny Butts In"   A story. "The irrepressible Benjamin attends a waxwork dinner party, and does other things equally surprising and interesting." p 34-41.  [HARPER]
19. _____ (December, 1915)   "No. 40 Elm Avenue" A story. "Benny the Book-agent tumbles into one of the most exciting adventures of his gay career." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 275-283.  [EPBLIB]

	Blue Book January, 1916 Click for larger image

1916

20. Blue Book (January, 1916)   "Jabez Bunker" Reprinted later as "The First Gold Brick." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [HARPER]
21. _____ (February, 1916)   "Working South"   A Jabez Bunker story. p 747-754.  [EPBLIB]
22. _____ (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]
23. _____ (April, 1916)   "The Gold Brick"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
24. _____ (May, 1916)   "Jabez Bunker's War Baby"  [HARPER, PULP]
25. _____ (June, 1916)   "A Prisoner Pro Tem"   A Jabez Bunker story. Later reprinted as "The Spanish Prisoner Game."  [HARPER]
26. _____ (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]
27. _____ (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]

	Blue Book September, 1916 Click for larger image

28. _____ (September, 1916)   "Much Mentioned Men" The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [HARPER, PULP]
29. _____ (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]
30. _____ (November, 1916)   "Honest Graft"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
31. _____ (December, 1916)   "Proxy"    [HARPER]

1917

32. Blue Book (January, 1917)   "Art Is Art"   A Jabez Bunker story. Table of contents mistakenly reads "Art and Art."  [HARPER]
33. _____ (February, 1917)   "Reel Graft"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
34. _____ (March, 1917)   "Granite Foam"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
35. _____ (April, 1917)   "You Ought to Get Cash"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
36. _____ (May, 1917)   "Away from Here"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
37. _____ (June, 1917)   "Androcles Jones"    [HARPER]

	Blue Book July, 1917 Click for larger image

38. _____ (July, 1917)   "Dear Uncle 'Lije" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Not indexed in PULP.  [EBAY, HARPER]
39. _____ (August, 1917)   "The Cardinal's Signet Ring"  [EBAY, HARPER]
40. _____ (December, 1917)   "Old Harby's Job"    [HARPER, PULP]

1918

41. Blue Book (January, 1918)   "The Rut"    [HARPER, PULP]
42. _____ (April, 1918)   "Sibb's Six Specifics"    [HARPER]
43. VIGILANTES: Monessen Daily Independent (May 29, 1918) "Blue Gray and Khaki"   Monessen (Pennsylvania) Daily Independent; May 29, 1918.  [NPA]
44. Blue Book (July, 1918)   "The Stump" A story. One illustration by Frank Hoban. "A boy story that will take you pleasantly back to bygone days. Mr. Butler knows boys and their older brothers, and you will find his quaint little tale refreshing indeed."  [EPBLIB]
45. Pleiades Club Year Book (1918)   "War Stuff"   Book is dated 1917-1918. "Edition-de-luxe." 500 copies printed. Contains contributions by Ellis Parker Butler, Harry Kemp, Amy Lowell, and others. p 42. Bound in tan paper boards; printed in blue; tan endpapers. New York: Pleiades Club.  [HARPER, WORLDCAT]

1923

46. Blue Book (March, 1923)   "The Clue Sense"   Not listed in HARPER.  [PULPGEN]

	Blue Book July, 1918 Click for larger image

47. _____ (April, 1923)   "His Majesty the King"   A story. One illustration. "Wherein a young detective blessed with the invaluable 'clue sense' undertakes to find a young king who turned up missing." Not listed in HARPER or PULP. p 88-93.  [EPBLIB]
48. _____ (May, 1923)   "The Throw Down" A story. One illustration. Not listed in HARPER. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "The sprightly story of a clever detective's adventures with a group of crooks who had a few brains themselves." p 55-60.  [PULPGEN]
49. _____ (June, 1923)   "Blackmail Broadcast, Unlimited"    [HARPER]
50. _____ (August, 1923)   "Hemburn's Wife" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Page 41. Not listed in HARPER or PULP.  [EPBLIB]
51. _____ (September, 1923)   "The Bronson Bonds"   A story. "Wherein a detective blessed with 'the clue sense' solves a very interesting and unusual case. A famous fiction-writer here contributes a most ingenious story wherein a detective with an 'automatic brain' solves a very curious mystery." One illustration.  [EPBLIB, PULP]

1930

52. Black and Blue Jay (March, 1930)   "Ten Years"    [HARPER]
53. Blue Book (June, 1930)   "He Laughed At Last" A story. Not indexed in PULP.  [EPBLIB]

1931

54. Black and Blue Jay (November, 1931)   "The Frozen Asset Problem"    [HARPER]
55. ANTHOLOGY: Blue Ribbon Stories (1931) "Jo Ann Cleans House"   Edited by Mabel L. Robinson. New York: Macmillan.  [HARPER]

	Blue Book May, 1935 Click for larger image

1935

56. Blue Book (May, 1935)   "The Cruise of the Nancy Bell" A story. "Lying done in a large way may be amusing indeed." Illustrated by Bert Salg. Volume 61. Number 1.  [EPBLIB, PULP]

1938

57. Blue Book (November, 1938)   "Testy and Stubborn" A story. "A characteristic bit of comedy by the famous author." Illustrated by Arthur Jameson. p 92-96.  [PULP]

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