Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

Books

1. The French Decorative Styles From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1904)   By Ellis P. Butler and Brittain B. Wilson. "A hand-book for ready reference by the editors of the Upholstery dealer and decorative furnisher." A large format (8.5x12 inch) book. Trade publication with many pages of advertising. Illustrated throughout with photos and line art. New York: Thomas A. Cawthra and Company.  [NYPL]

Other Material

1. Syracuse Herald (September 28, 1927)   "False Prophets of the Crack of Doom Annoying to the Author of "Pigs is Pigs""   An article. Illustrated. Syracuse Herald; September 28, 1919; magazine section. From New York World (?).  [NPA]
2. Muscatine Journal (January 11, 1915)   "Former Carrier Tells of Being a Barefoot Boy in Muscatine"    [HARPER]
3. The Happy Profession (1946) "Friends and Crooks"   By Ellery Sedgwick. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Pages 124 and 126.  [EPBLIB]

Anthologies

1. The College Years (1958) "The Famous Oklahoma-Stanford Tug of War"   A reprint of the Bull Hyde and Little Peewee story. A. C. Spectorsky, editor. New York: Hawthorn.  [HARPER]

	Favorite Jokes of Famous People October, 1928 Click for larger image

2. Favorite Jokes of Famous People (October, 1928) "Favorite Joke" A story. "I'm glad that it is possible to reproduce Mr. Butler's favorite story in his own words -- a splendid example of his genius in writing humor". Edited and illustrated by Frank Ernest Nicholson. Includes a caricature of the author and a reproduction of the author's famous signature. New York: E. P. Dutton. p 46-50.  [EPBLIB]
3. Spoofs (August, 1933) "The Financial Structure"   Humor. Edited by Richard Butler Glaenzer. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. p 252-262.  [HARPER]
4. A Preface to College Prose (1935) "The Financial Structure"   Humor. Edited by Charles Gott and John A. Behnke. New York: Macmillan. p 224-29.  [HARPER]
5. The Art of Interpretive Speech (1952) "The Financial Structure"   Humor. Edited by Charles H. Woolbert and Severina E. Nelson. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p 468-72. Third Edition. (Fourth Edition 1956 p 429-33.)  [HARPER]

Periodicals (Prose)

1. Life (September, 1933)   "The Fable of the Fox and the Cream"    [HARPER]
2. Judge (March, 1934)   "The Fable of Three Men"    [HARPER]
3. Blue Book (November, 1914)   "The Facts That Myra Hid"    [HARPER]
4. All-Story Cavalier (May 23, 1914)   "Fagan and the Elephant"   A story.  [PULPGEN]
5. Century Magazine (September, 1901)   "The False Gods of Doc Weaver"   With drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. This story later became chapter 11 in Kilo. p 691-697.  [RGTPL]
6. World Outlook (November, 1919)   "False Retentions or Something"    [RGTPL]
7. American Magazine (September, 1906)   "The Family Album"   A series of drawings made to resemble a photo album. "Reproduced by Angie Breakspear with 'Remarks' by Ellis Parker Butler." With one drawing per page, Butler wrote a running commentary on the album and its characters.  [RGTPL]
8. Woman's Home Companion (May, 1928)   "Far Seas and Distant Lands"   A story. Illustrated in color by George Illian.  [RGTPL]
9. Success Magazine (March, 1926)   "Fat Is Fat"   A story. p 40-44+.  [HARPER]

	Rotarian February, 1927 Click for larger image

10. Rotarian (February, 1927)   "Father" A story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. Also, there's a very brief bio of the author on page 64, including a photograph. p 16-17, 56-63.  [HARPER]
11. Ideal House (September, 1905)   "Fatima's Rug"    [HARPER]
12. Judge (February 11, 1911)   "Fatma, the Fortune-Teller"    [HARPER]
13. Leslie's Monthly (August, 1904)   "The Feet of the Detwilers"   A story. "A Tale of Cousin Carrie and the Lousiana Exposition." With pictures by E. D. Stevens. Volume 58. Number 4. p 413-418.  [HANNIGAN]
14. Every Week (February 17, 1934)   "Fenderton Breaks a Date"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.  [NPA]
15. _____ (February 26, 1933)   "Fenderton Checks Out"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in Lima (Ohio) News.  [NPA]
16. _____ (October 8, 1932)   "Fenderton Flies"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.  [NPA]
17. _____ (June 27, 1936)   "Fenderton Looks Ahead"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in Indiana (PA) Weekly Messenger 21-OCT-1937.  [HARPER, NPA]
18. _____ (September 23, 1934)   "Fenderton Makes Hay"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in Lima (Ohio) News.  [NPA]

	Sure-Fire Detective August, 1941 Click for larger image

19. Sure-Fire Detective (August, 1941)   "Fenderton Roper, Hero" A story. The name Ellis Parker Butler appears on the cover. Thanks to Richard Hall who spotted this issue in an eBay auction. Canadian pulp. Volume 1. Number 3.  [EBAY]
20. Every Week (December 9, 1934)   "Fenderton Roper, Hero"   A Fenderton Roper story. "A little snappy work by our fearless sleuth." Found in (Portland) Oregon Journal Sunday Magazine. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. p 2. Also, found in Lima (Ohio) News same date.  [EPBLIB, NPA]
21. Liberty (February 28, 1925)   "Fenderton Roper, Pressman" A Fenderton Roper story. "The Short and Snappy Story of a Young Man Who Started Out to Reform Journalism." Pictures by Nancy Fay. p 14-22.  [BEST]
22. Every Week (January 23, 1936)   "Fenderton, the Avenger"   A Fenderton Roper story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in Newark (Ohio) Advocate.  [NPA]
23. Good Housekeeping (May, 1907)   "The Fenelby Smugglers"   A serial. This story was later published in book form as The Cheerful Smugglers.  [HARPER]
24. _____ (June, 1907)   "The Fenelby Smugglers" A serial. This story was later published in book form as The Cheerful Smugglers. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. p 626-633.  [HARPER]
25. _____ (July, 1907)   "The Fenelby Smugglers" A serial. Chapter IV. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. This story was later published in book form as The Cheerful Smugglers. p 15-21.  [EPBLIB]
26. _____ (August, 1907)   "The Fenelby Smugglers"   A serial. This story was later published in book form as The Cheerful Smugglers.  [HARPER]
27. _____ (September, 1907)   "The Fenelby Smugglers"   A serial. This story was later published in book form as The Cheerful Smugglers.  [HARPER]
28. Harper's Bazar (December, 1913)   "The Fifth Commandment"   A story. The author "approaches the divorce problem from a new angle." Includes a full-page drawing by Walter Biggs. p 26-8. Numbering for the commandment in this title is likely from some source such as Westminster Shorter Catechism (or other) and is certainly "Honor Thy Mother and Father".  [EPBLIB]
29. New Story Magazine (March, 1912)   "The Fight for Peace"    [HARPER]
30. Up to Date (May 16, 1896)   "Figures Don't Lie"   The full title of the publication is "Up to Date: Everybody's Paper."  [HARPER]
31. Ideal House (May, 1906)   "Filet Lace"    [HARPER]
32. Atlantic Monthly (August, 1930)   "The Financial Structure" Humor. p252-255.  [RGTPL]
33. Mystery Stories (December, 1927)   "Find the Woman"    [COOK+MILLER]
34. Delineator (February, 1924)   "Finding Mr. Wing"   A story. p 5-6, 76-79.  [RGTPL]

	Writer's Digest October, 1931 Click for larger image

35. Writer's Digest (October, 1931)   "Finding the Idea" An essay. Text and images contributed by John Locke.  [HARPER, LOCKE]
36. Christian Herald (June, 1931)   "First Aid" A short short story. One illustration by Dieden Medter. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 19.  [HARPER]
37. Red Cross Magazine (October, 1919)   "The First Day of School" A story. Four illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. "Ethelbert stood for a brief second on the stairs looking down. He was vastly unhappy." p 23-26, 66.  [HARPER]
38. World Magazine (November 19, 1916)   "The First Gold Brick"   A Jabez Bunker story.  [HARPER]
39. New York Herald Tribune (April 11, 1926)   "Fish Out of Water"   A review of They Had to See Paris by Homer Croy. p 14 VII.  [HARPER]
40. Pictorial Review (December, 1912)   "Five Forks"   A story. Illustrated by Lawrence Herndon. p 12-13.  [HARPER]
41. Judge (September 16, 1911)   "Fixing Sammy"    [HARPER]
42. Judge's Library (October, 1912)   "Fixing Sammy"    [HARPER]
43. Holland's Magazine (February, 1927)   "The Flank Attack"    [HARPER]

	American Girl September, 1934 Click for larger image

44. American Girl (September, 1934)   "The Flat-Tire Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. Illustrations by Leslie Turner. "The boys always laughed at the 'Tenth Street Yard Detective Club,' but when Superintendent Betty Bliss found a real crime, they did their best to help." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 20-22, 44-45.  [HARPER]
45. American Magazine (December, 1907)   "Fleas Will Be Fleas"   A Mike Flannery story. With illustrations by Rollin Kirby. Included later in Mike Flannery, On Duty and Off.  [RGTPL]
46. Ideal House (July, 1906)   "Flemish Decoration"    [HARPER]
47. Judge (September 2, 1911)   "The Flight of Gaffney Greene"    [HARPER]
48. Judge's Library (September, 1912)   "The Flight of Gaffney Greene"    [HARPER]
49. Goblin (July, 1927)   "Flood Prevention"    [HARPER]
50. Argosy (August 26, 1922)   "Flora"   A novelette. Not indexed in PULP. One illustration. p 180-207.  [ARGOSY]
51. Red Book (August, 1918)   "Flossie Mae, Peacemaker"    [HARPER]
52. _____ (September, 1918)   "Flossie Mae, Successful Wife"    [HARPER]
53. Associated Sunday Magazines (November 12, 1911)   "Fogarty's Thirteen"    [HARPER]
54. American Boy (September, 1927)   "The Folding Coon Dog"   A story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff.  [EPBLIB]

	College Humor May, 1925 Click for larger image

55. College Humor (May, 1925)   "For Good Old Wumpus" A story. "A Thrilling Romance of Love and Baseball." "'Curse you, Clyde Zingo!' one of the two exclaimed rather crossly." Illustrated by Russell Patterson. p 63-66,93.  [EPBLIB]
56. Argosy (February 10, 1934)   "For Mayor of Dog Bite" A short story. "A six-gun election out West. Frisco Bill fired, and the feud was on. Why waste time on ballots when bullets are so much quicker?"  [ARGOSY, PULP]
57. Success Magazine (December, 1906)   "For Skudsy" A story. Illustrated by Clara D. Davidson.  [EPBLIB]
58. Red Book (May, 1914)   "For the Love of Mike" "A 'Guaranteed Laugh' story of a group of circus 'freaks.'" Illustrated by Rea Irvin. "Another 'Laughs-guaranteed' story from the most famous humorist in the country today."  [HARPER]
59. Independent (June 10, 1922)   "Foreign Propagandists"   A Judge Hooper story. One illustration by Tony Sarg. p 509-10.  [EPBLIB]
60. Short Stories (May, 1914)   "The Forgiveness of Spot"    [HARPER]
61. Leslie's Monthly (July, 1904)   "A Fortune in Hot Air" A Perkins of Portland story. "An Adventure of Perkins the Great." With drawings by F. R. Gruger. Volume LVIII. Number 3. Whole Number 343. Pages 269-274. This story is not in Perkins of Portland. Also reprinted in Dallas Morning News, January 5, 1908.  [HANNIGAN]
62. People's Home Journal (September, 1909)   "A Fortune in Hot Air" A Perkins of Portland story. Illustrated. p 10.  [EPBLIB]

	People's Home Journal September, 1909 Click for larger image

63. Washington Post (November 25, 1917)   "Four Tufts of Golden Hair"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. p 69+.  [WASHPOST]
64. Red Book (November, 1915)   "Four Tufts of Golden Hair" A Philo Gubb story.  [HARPER]
65. Delineator (May, 1925)   "Fragrance of Lilacs"   Three Glimpses into the Beyond.  [BEST, EPBLIB]
66. Popular Magazine (August 20, 1922)   "The Frane Mystery" A story. "A mystery tale providing a petty instance of how you never can tell." One illustration.  [EPBLIB, PULP]
67. Judge (August 7, 1920)   "Freedom from the Press" A story. The phrase "Another 'Man from '20' story by the author of 'Pigs Is Pigs'" appears on the cover. p 5-7.  [EPBLIB]
68. Hardboiled (February, 1937)   "A Friend in Need"    [COOK+MILLER]
69. Designer (March, 1915)   "The Fringe of Fate"   A story. Illustrated by Arthur Little. p 3.  [HARPER]
70. Association Men (February, 1921)   "From Cowhide to Patent Leather"    [HARPER]
71. Goblin (December, 1927)   "From Eve's Diary"    [HARPER]
72. Light (December, 1927)   "From Peak to Peak"    [HARPER]

	Seng Book January, 1929 Click for larger image

73. Seng Book (January, 1929)   "From Peak to Peak" A story. Illustrated by John Willmarth. p 49-55.  [EPBLIB]
74. Gentlewoman Magazine (December, 1930)   "From Peak to Peak" A story. p 3, 12.  [EPBLIB]
75. National Magazine (August, 1923)   "Frost-Bit Frisbie"    [HARPER]
76. Boston Sunday Herald (March 31, 1912)   "Frost-Bit Frisbie" Joe Chapple's News-Letter succeeding The Boston News-Letter the first newspaper printed in America. Sunday Magazine Section of The Sunday Herald. Illustrated. p 10. Also called National News-Letter, probably in syndication.  [EPBLIB]
77. Black and Blue Jay (November, 1931)   "The Frozen Asset Problem"    [HARPER]
78. Success Magazine (August, 1906)   "The Funniest Stories I've Heard"   A collection of short humorous stories. Includes a photo of the author. p 562-3.  [HARPER]
79. National Magazine (July, 1897)   "The 'Funny' Man"   A story. Syndicated as "A Lifetime of Regret."  [HARPER]
80. Puck (February 19, 1896)   "The Future of Tommy Hunt"    [HARPER]

Periodicals (Poetry)

1. Up to Date (January 15, 1898)   "Femininity"    [HARPER]

	Red Book November, 1933 Click for larger image

2. Red Book (November, 1933)   "The Final Tax" A poem. p 52.  [HARPER]
3. Up to Date (July 17, 1897)   "Force of Habit"    [HARPER]
4. Judge (October 14, 1911)   "Four Little Tales"    [HARPER]
5. Up to Date (June 5, 1897)   "A Fraud"    [HARPER]

Related Materials

1. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin (June, 1979)   "Folk Humor in the Stories of Ellis Parker Butler"   By Jeffrey J. Folks. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 45, No. 11 (June 1979). p 79-84. Tennessee Folklore Society.  [CHAPIN]

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