Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

1904

1. Century Magazine (September, 1904)   "The Great American Pie Company"   A story. Later published as the book The Great American Pie Company.  [RGTPL]

	The Great American Pie Company 1907 Click for larger image

1907

2. BOOK: The Great American Pie Company (1907) A short story about the daydreams of Ephraim Deacon and his friend Phineas Doolittle who plan to corner the pie market. Three illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. This story originally appeared in the Century Magazine, September 1904. New York: McClure, Phillips and Company. 44 pages.  [EPBLIB]

1919

3. American Magazine (January, 1919)   "I Gather Too Many Goat-Feathers - Do You?"   This is the same essay as Goat-Feathers with a different (if similar) title. Includes a full-page photo of the author. "Twelve years ago Ellis Parker Butler set the whole country laughing over "Pigs is Pigs." He followed that shot out of his locker with "The Incubator Baby," "The Great American Pie Company," "Water Goats," and other wonderful yarns. He was born forty-nine years ago in Muscatine, Iowa, is married, and now lives in Flushing, a suburb of Brooklyn. He has four children, one of whom is shown here." Volume 87. Number 1.  [RGTPL]

1927

4. BOOK: Pups and Pies (1927)   SEE CONTENTS.A collection of five previously published books: That Pup, Mike Flannery, On Duty and Off, The Thin Santa Claus, The Water Goats and Other Troubles and The Great American Pie Company. Illustrated. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company.  [EPBLIB]

1933

5. Golden Book Magazine (August, 1933)   "The Great American Pie Company"   A story. "The Rise and Fall of Two Back-Porch Magnates." One original illustration by Dorothy McKay.  [EPBLIB]
6. ANTHOLOGY: Humor By Vote (1933) "The Great American Pie Company"   "The voters being George Ade, Ellis Parker Butler, Irvin S. Cobb ... and others." H. H. Howland, editor. Butler's story was selected by Chic Sale who starred in the 1935 movie version of the story. Also, Butler selected a poem by Robert J. Burdette ("The Romance of the Carpet"). New York: The Laugh Club. p 222-238.  [EPBLIB]

1935

7. MOTION PICTURE: The Great American Pie Company (1935)   MGM. Director: Nick Grinde. Performers: Chic Sale, Spencer Charters.  [HARPER]

1940

8. ANTHOLOGY: A Treasury of Modern Humor (1940) "The Great American Pie Company"   Edited by Allen Churchill (b. 1911). First published, 1940, under the title All in Fun; an Omnibus of Humor. New York: Tudor Publishing Company.  [HARPER, MISC]

	Pups and Pies 1927 Click for larger image

1965

9. BOOK: Pigs is Pigs and Other Favorites (1965)   SEE CONTENTS.   A collection of Butler's works. New York: Dover Publication, Inc. ISBN 0-486-21532-6.  [HARPER]

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