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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Edwin B. Hill, his little hand press and its big impact

January 02, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 1

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January 02, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, American Book Collector, Gertrude Hill Muir, Adrian Goldstone, John Myers Myers, A Check-list of items published by the private press of Edwin B. Hill, Kenneth A. Goldblatt, A Vincent Starrett Library, Christopher Morley, Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, The Wave, The Double Dealer, Fifteen More Poems, Thomas Kennedy, Ellen Denby, Arizona State University, What's O'Clock?
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From the Library of "Ellery Queen"

June 22, 2017 by Ray Betzner

A little book with a big signature.

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June 22, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mystery League, Crime and Detection (Second Series), Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterson, Fridolf Johnson, Foyles, Barnaby Ross, Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee, University of Minnesota, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet
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Return of "The Man Who Called Himself Poe"

August 06, 2016 by Ray Betzner

In Which Starrett and Poe are Reprinted

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August 06, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Seaports in the Moon, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Starrett, The Man Who Called Himself Poe, Sam Moskowitz, A Man Called Poe, WIliam Legrand, William Legrand, The Gold Bug, Captain Kidd, The Saturday Evening Post, Have You a Tamerlane In Your Attic?
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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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Have you a Tamerlane?

January 19, 2014 by Ray Betzner

A Morgan Library display tells only part of the story of Tamerlane, Edgar Allan Poe's first book and one of the rarest books in American literature.

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January 19, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Tamerlane, Vincent Starrett, Scott Monty, Saturday Evening Post, Morgan Library, Edgar Allan Poe
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