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

The Last Bookman's Bookplates

March 23, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Two rare bookplates join the list

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March 23, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Haldane MacFall, Fridolf Johnson, Crystal Kennedy, Gordon Browne, Charles Honce, Walter Klinefelter, Phiz, Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens, Estrays, In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, Dickson's Close, Wallace Smith, Ben Hecht, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Michael Murphy, The Sign of the Four, Conferment by Needle, T.S. Eliot, Livres Galantes

The Loveman letter

March 10, 2017 by Ray Betzner

What can we deduce from one Starrett letter?

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March 10, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, H.P. Lovecraft, Samuel Loveman, Don Swaim, The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer, Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Seaports in the Moon, Bruce Rogers, Haldane MacFall, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Heritage Press
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Recent additions to the collection

February 18, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Two new (to me) items commemorating significant events in Starrett's Sherlockian life.

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February 18, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Julian Wolff, Hugo's Companions, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Hounds of the Baskerville, Caxton Club, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Stanley Pargellis, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, The Chicago Tribune, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, George Gissing, Mark Twain, Sherington Hope, Sherrington Hope, Sage's Restaurant
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