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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Filling those gaps on the shelves

September 25, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Here dwell still, 3 books of note

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September 25, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstacy and Sin, Walter M. Hill, L.S. Mitchell, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Charles E. Honce, Flame and Dust, Pascal Covici, The Saturday Review of Literature, William Rose Benét, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Covici, Friede, Merton G.L. Bailey, Edward C. Caswell, Bowdoin College

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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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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Books and Bipeds: Starrett at his best

September 24, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Why Books and Bipeds deserves a place on your shelf.

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September 24, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ben Abramson, Argus Books, Books and Bipeds, Nova 57 Minor, Sherlock Holmes, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Bookman's Holiday, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Buried Caesars
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The Autograph Habit

January 23, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Autographed and inscribed books make for great memories.

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January 23, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Steven Doyle, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Baker Street Journal, Mark Gagen, Bert Coules, Jenn Eaker, Matt Laffey, Scott Bond, Don Hobbs, Spain and Sherlock Holmes, 221B BBC, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes
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A Student of Catalogues

April 18, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Wherein Vincent Starrett extols the delights in book catalogues and thereby opens a door into a pleasure that is slowly slipping away.

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April 18, 2015 /Ray Betzner
A Student of Catalogues, Vincent Starrett, Torch Press, Leigh Hunt, Penny Wise and Book Foolish
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