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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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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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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