Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

	Little Known Stories of Muscatine 1980 Click for larger image

1980

1. Little Known Stories of Muscatine (1980) "Glamorous As Kashmir" By William D. Randall. Edited by members of the Friends of the Musser Public Library. Written from scripts of a radio program on local radio stations KWPC and KFMH. The initial series was broadcast on Sunday afternoons June 5 through August 28, 1949. Muscatine Iowa: Friends of the Musser Public Library. Volume 1. p 21-25. Copies are available for purchase at the Musser Public Library; 304 Iowa Avenue; Muscatine, Iowa 52761-3875. telephone: (563) 263-3472.  [EPBLIB]

1981

2. ANTHOLOGY: Sherlock Holmes in America (1981) "Watson, Once Epaminondas, Joins Deteckative Gubb"   A Philo Gubb story. Reprinted from a story issued by the McClure Syndicate. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. ISBN: 0-8109-1609-6. p 115-120.  [EPBLIB]

1982

3. Books at Iowa 37 (November, 1982)   "Lighting Out for the Territory Back East: Ellis Parker Butler, American Humorist"   By Henry B. Chapin.  [WEB]
4. 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]

1986

5. 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]
6. Journals of the Butler Society (1986)   "Ellis Parker Butler: American Humorist"   By Henry B. Chapin. Volume 3:1 (1986-1987). p 90-93.  [HARPER]

1987

7. BOOK: American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals (1987)   David E. E. Sloane, editor. An overview and history of many Americn publications. Included are remarks about Ellis Parker Butler being published in "America's Humor" (p 333); "Laughter" (p 420); "Judges' Library" and "Sis Hopkin's Own Book" and "Magazine of Fun" published from 1912 to 1915 (later becoming "Film Fun") (p 426); "Up to Date" which was subtitled "Everybody's Magazine" (p 480-1); and "The Yellow Kid" and "The Yellow Book" published from March 20, 1897 and July 17, 1897 respectively (p 496-7). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. LOC: 86-27155. ISBN: 0-313-23956-8.  [HARPER]
8. ANTHOLOGY: Fireside Treasury of Great Humor (1987) "Pigs is Pigs"   Edited by Al Sarrantonio. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 0671632833. Also, reprint edition (July 1996); publisher: Wings Press; ISBN: 0517181509  [WEB]

	Fireside Book of Canadian Christmas 1986 Click for larger image

9. ANTHOLOGY: Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Dog Stories (1987) "Getting Rid of Fluff"   A story. Truman Talley Books. Also reprinted in 1990. New York: E. P. Dutton.  [EPBLIB]

1988

10. King Vidor (1988) "The Jack-Knife Man"   An extended oral history of King Vidor who directed the film made from Ellis Parker Butler's book The Jack-Knife Man. Interviewed by Nancy Dowd and David Shepard. Metuchen NJ and London: The Directors Guild of America and The Scarecrow Press. p 21-25. ISBN 0-8108-2161-3.  [EPBLIB]
11. ANTHOLOGY: Mississippi River Tales (1988) "Philo Gubb's Greatest Case" Edited by Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. "From the American Storytelling Tradition" Little Rock: August House Publishers. ISBN 0-87483-067-2 (paperback). p 52-70. Also, a portrait of the author on page 199.  [EPBLIB]

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