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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'I know him from the photograph.' – The Man with the Twisted Lip

October 08, 2024 by Ray Betzner

“You have the photograph?”

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October 08, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Dan Loving, Don Loving, Ben Hecht, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Burton Rascoe, Stanley Starrett, Hugh Young, Robert Polk Starrett, Margaret Dennison Starrett, Vera Cruz, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Oppenheim's, Eugene Hutchinson, Jimmie Lavender, Rachel Latimer, Books Aive
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New views of Peking with Vincent and Ray

September 28, 2023 by Ray Betzner

New images from an old vacation

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September 28, 2023 /Ray Betzner
The Laughing Buddha, Vincent Starrett, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Jennifer Hornsby, Yi Ying, Dollar Line, SS President Coolidge, Rachel Latimer, Carmen Valentino, Steven Rothman, Helen Burton, Camel's Bell gift shop, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Ida Pruitt, L.C. Arlington

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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Going to Graceland

November 03, 2017 by Ray Betzner

The Last Bookman's headstone looks like a book.

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November 03, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Graceland Cemetery, Vincent Starrett, The Last Bookman, Rachel Latimer, Allan Pinkerton, Laura Page, Robert Mangler, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), The Needle

"Snow for Christmas"

December 13, 2014 by Ray Betzner

As the year winds down, we end 2014 with a sentimental tale designed by Starrett for the holiday season.

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December 13, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Henry Dierkes, Snow for Christmas, David Thursk, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman
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The Sherlockian world's most famous bookplate, Part 2

August 09, 2014 by Ray Betzner

Tracing the history of an iconic Sherlock Holmes image.

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August 09, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Fridolf Johnson, Vincent Starrett, University of Minnesota, Timothy Johnson, Cheryll Fong, Julie McKuras, Graceland Cemetery, University of Delaware, Susan Rice, Buena Oaks Hotel, A Baker Street Quartette, Edgar W. Smith, The Baker Street Irregulars Inc, The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Last Bookman, Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
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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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Vincent Starrett in Portrait and Profile: The 1920s

February 22, 2014 by Ray Betzner

A look at a few photographs and sketches showing Vincent Starrett in the 1920s.

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February 22, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Gene Markey, Vincent Starrett, The End of Mr. Garment, The Last Bookman, Men About Town, The Zulu Assegai
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'The Last Bookman' at 82

January 14, 2014 by Ray Betzner

The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine celebrated its most famous book reviewer with a feature story in 1969.

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January 14, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Last Bookman, The Chicago Tribune, Basil Rathbone, T.S. Eliot
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