Studies in Starrett

Studies in Starrett

An exploration of the works of Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett

(October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974)

Curated by Ray Betzner
Original content owned and copyrighted by Ray Betzner

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'Some new and poignant loveliness'

January 31, 2024 by Ray Betzner

An Estray in New York

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January 31, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Estrays, Vincent Starrett, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Wilbur Underwood, R.L.S., Robert Louis Stevenson, McSorley's Old Ale House, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, Argosy Books, Grand Central Termiinal, Times Square, New York Public Library, Winnie the Pooh, Charles Dickens, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, Longfellow, L'Envoy, Hart Crane, Chicago Daily News, Ebony Flame, Flame and Dust, Banners in the Dawn

Dedications

May 22, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Monkey glands, McCarthyites and the W.G.A.

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May 22, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Walter M. Hill, In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, W.C. Morrow, Ambrose Bierce, Rhymes for Collectors, Lilian Hartsig, Ebony Flame, Lilian Starrett, Bella Starrett, Banners in the Dawn, Thomas Kennedy, Buried Caesars, Robert Polk Starrett, Flame and Dust, Richard Le Gallienne, Coffins for Two, Fifteen More Poems, Charles Parsons, Ray Latimer, Seaports in the Moon, Ambrose Bierce: A bibliography, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, M.J. Latimer, Murder on B Deck, Stanley Starrett, Harold Starrett, Robert Starrett, The Blue Door, Edwin Baird, Dead Man Inside, Scott Cunningham, The End of Mr. Garment, Stirling Parkinson, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Frederic Dorr Steele, Gray Chandler Briggs, Charles Honce, Midnight and Percy Jones, Persons From Porlock, Christopher Morley, Oriental Encounters, The Great Hotel Murder, Riley Blackwood, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, Georgia E. Bennett, Autolycus in Limbo, The Case-Book of Jimmie Lavender, Harry E. Maule, Ellery Queen, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Murder in Peking, Lin Yutang, Books and Bipeds, Book Column, Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century, Wendell W. Goodpasture, Late Later and Possibly Last
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The Poet's Corner

April 12, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A consideration of Starrett the poet via 9 books.

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April 12, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Flame and Dust, Ebony Flame, Brillig, Autolycus in Limbo, Rhymes for Collectors, Estrays, Fifteen More Poems, Banners in the Dawn, "Shop Windows in Winter", Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Walter M. Hill, An Iron Dog, Covici-McGee, Pascal Covici, November 24 1918, charles Hon, William Rose Benet, Epigram, Edwin B. Hill, Summer Shower, E.P. Dutton, To Wicky, To Wicky: My Wire, The Dierkes Press of Chicago., Alice, Alice Where art thou?
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A.K.A. Vincent Starrett

May 12, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Starrett used many names in his career.

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May 12, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, Charles V.E. Starrett, Charles E.V. Starrett, Stephen Huguenot, Edgar Savage, Vincenzio, Vinpenny, Banners in the Dawn, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chicago Daily News, The Editor: The Journal of Life for Literary Workers, Lincolnana, Reedy's Mirror, True Detective, Short Stories, Column Poetrs, Jay Finley Christ, Jay Finch, Poetry magazine, Wisconsin State Journal, Weird Tales, Roy Franklin Dewey, Lucian Taylor, The Great Lakes Review, Charles L.P. Silet, Autolycus in Limbo, A Literary Anthology, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare, Et Cetera, Pascal Covici, Charles Vincent Starrett, Graceland Cemetery, Christopher Morley

Salomé

March 10, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The two versions of a Starrett sonnet

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March 10, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Salome, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Estrays, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, King Herod, John the Baptist, Banners in the Dawn, Autolycus in Limbo
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"221B" fresh from Starrett's typewriter

February 21, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Autolycus in Limbo: The Manuscript

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February 21, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Autolycus in Limbo, Vincent Starrett, Charles Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, William Rose Benet, 221B, E.P. Dutton, Edgar W. Smith, Hell, Hell Said the Duchess, Cherchez la Femme, Banners in the Dawn, The Golden Eagle Press, Sam A, Sam A Jacobs, The Public Papers of a Bibliomaniac, Ames W. Williams

"Dear Mother — "

August 16, 2014 by Ray Betzner

How an inscribed volume of Starrett's poems brings both elation and sadness.

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August 16, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Charles Prepolec, MacLeod's Books, Margaret Deniston Young, Chicago Daily News, Born in a Bookshop, Karen Murdock, Sherlock Alive, Banners in the Dawn, Vancouver, November 24, November 24 1918, Ray Betzner
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The Sherlockian world's most famous bookplate, Part 1

August 02, 2014 by Ray Betzner

How a bookplate created in 1931 became an iconic image of Sherlock Holmes.

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August 02, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Baker Street Irregulars, Edgar W. Smith, W. E. Butler, Sherlockian Bookplates, Fridolf Johnson, Banners in the Dawn, Fifteen More Poems, Charles Honce, University of Minnesota, Philip Hench Collection, Arthur Parsons, Lillian Starrett, Yale University, Arthur Machen, Walter M. Hill, Salome, University of Delaware, Dickson's Close, The Book of Old England, Monologue in Baker Street, Chicago Tribune, Dr. Watson's Mind Read by Master, The Baker Street Journal, Christmas Annual, Susan Rice, A Baker Street Quartette, The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Last Bookman, Graceland Cemetery, Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
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