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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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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Pirates, desert islands and mermaids.

March 29, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Or “Pirrrrates, merrrrmaids and deserrrrt islands. Arrrrgh.”

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March 29, 2019 /Ray Betzner
In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, Treasure island, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Long John Silver, Reedy's Mirror, Covici-McGee, Dead Man's Chest, The Colophon, The Dates in the Red-Headed League, Dorothy L. Sayers, A Speck on the Map, Robinson Crusoe, The Sign of the Four, Kdakk, Ballad of Brobdingnag, Gulliver, Jonathan Swift, Books Alive, Books and Bipeds, Lilliput, Blefuscu, Fridolf Johnson, mermaids, Guy and Constance Jones, Peabody's Mermaid
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Vincent Starrett Goes Wilde

October 01, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Starrett, Wilde and a long lost letter.

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October 01, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Oscar Wilde, Stuart Mason, Vincent Starrett, Books and Bipeds, “Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde”, Roses and Rue, “Art and Morality”., In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, Karen Murdock, Christopher Sclater Millard, Lillie Langtry
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Books and Bipeds: Starrett at his best

September 24, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Why Books and Bipeds deserves a place on your shelf.

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September 24, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ben Abramson, Argus Books, Books and Bipeds, Nova 57 Minor, Sherlock Holmes, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Bookman's Holiday, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Buried Caesars
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Starrett and Lovecraft: Lovers of the Macabre

October 30, 2015 by Ray Betzner

It’s Halloween, the right time to talk about Vincent Starrett and the man behind the Cthulhu mythos: Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

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October 30, 2015 /Ray Betzner
H.P. Lovecraft, Vincent Starrett, Cordelia's Song, August Derleth, Crypt of Cthulhu, Samuel Loveman, Lin Carter, Books and Bipeds
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A Bookman and his Dealer

March 14, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Ben Abramson was a book seller, a publisher and a dreamer.

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March 14, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Ben Abramson, Edgar W. Smith, Reading and Collecting magazine, The Baker Street Journal, Steven Rothman, Books and Bipeds, Autolycus in Limbo, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Christopher Morley, Argus Books, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, P.M. Stone, James Keddie, Snow for Christmas
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The 'Starrett Smiley,' and other curious features of his signature

March 29, 2014 by Ray Betzner

The first of a two-part post on the many curious and wonderful autographs left behind by Vincent Starrett.

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March 29, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Arthur Machen, Arthur Machen: Novelist of Ecstasy and sin, Books and Bipeds, Books Alive, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Baker Street Journal, Ambrose Bierce, Autolycus in Limbo, Michael Murphy, Starrett Memorial Library, Chicago Murders
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