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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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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Provenance

February 27, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Do we ever really ‘own’ a book?

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February 27, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Officium Baetae Marie Virginis., Frank Morris, Waldo Leon Rich, Nellie Brown, Saratoga Springs, Silver Blaze, The Valley of Fear, Reading, Freeman's Auctions, Fanny Butcher, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Charles Honce
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The Devon County Chronicle: Vincent Starrett Edition

January 09, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A fanzine’s affectionate festschrift

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January 09, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Robert Hahn, Robert Walter Hahn, Julie McKuras, The Devon County Chronicle, John Bennett Shaw, Ben Abramson, Argus Book Shop, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), William S. Baring-Gould, James keddie Jr., Rex Stout, August Derleth, Julian Wolff, Charles Honce, Belden Wigglesworth, Hugo's Companions
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'Part of a slim volume"

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 7

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Edgar W. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Autolycus in Limbo, William Rose Benet, Richard Hart, Baltimore Evening Sun, To a Very Literary Lady, E.P. Dutton, Charles Honce
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One of "My Disciples," Part One

May 23, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Starrett and Honce: I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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May 23, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Charles Honce, Vincent Starrett, Midnight and Percy Jones, Associated Press, The APME Red Book, A Vincent Starrett Library, Frederic Dorr Steele, The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, A Sherlock Holmes Birthday, A Study in Scarlet, William Gillette, A Sherlock Holmes Birthday and other bookish stories conceived in the form of news

Digging up a new/old Starrett illustration

March 16, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Heathcote and Hansen

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March 16, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Harry Hansen, Hec Mann, The Wave, The Chicago Daily News, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Reedy's Mirror, Arthur Machen, Charles Honce
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Peking pays off: VS in the Forbidden City, Part 2

June 22, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The Products of Peking

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June 22, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ray Latimer, The Laughing Buddha, Murder in Peking, Magna Publications, Born in a Bookshop, Charles Honce, Front Page Mysteries, Walter Edwards, Invincible Press, Editions Diderot, Meurte a Pekin, Valentine Isabel Johnston, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star, Oriental Encounters, Normandie House, Black Cat Press, Oriental Encounters: Two Essays in Bad Taste, Some Chinese Detective Stories, The Last Bookman
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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

"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

An Icon in the Making

August 13, 2016 by Ray Betzner

From Starrett to Loving to Zimmer and more

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August 13, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Don Loving, Mathew Zimmer, Charles Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, Autolycus in Limbo, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Great All-Star Animal Base Ball Game, Steven Rothman, Steven Doyle, Francine Kitts, Robert Thomalen, The Golden Eagle Press, S.A. Jacobs, Pascal Covici, W.S. Hall, Frederic Dorr Steele, Edgar W. Smith, Rex Stout, Christopher Morley, Earle F. Walbridge, Michael Murphy, Fridolf Johnson
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“That Gap on the Second Shelf”

March 12, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Vincent Starrett works that I want, but can't afford or can't find.

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March 12, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Unique Hamlet, Weird Tales, Cordelia's Song, Edgar Allan Poe, Saturday Evening Post, Reedy's Mirror, Persons From Porlock, Charles Honce, Randall Stock, Richard Sveum, Argosy Books, Peter L. Stern, The Quick and the Dead, Robert Howard, Conan the Barbarian
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“Your photographs are not unlike you.”

November 20, 2015 by Ray Betzner

A “new” Vincent Starrett photograph and the mystery that comes with it.

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November 20, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Murder on B Deck, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Seaports in the Moon, Susan Rice, Robert Mangler, Karen Murdock, Peter Ruber, Charles Honce
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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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