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 lifetime with catalogues

September 21, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Those single-minded book collectors

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September 21, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ben Abramson, Argus Books, Fashions in Fiction, The Observer, Oppenheim's, Gene Markey, Walt Whitman, Et Cetera, John Doctoroff, "Limited Editions", Covici Friede, Reedy's Mirror, Ebony Flame, Flame and Dust, An Essay on Limited Editions, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, R. Gerald McMurtry, Books Alive, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Lincoln Herald
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