Vincent Starrett in Portrait and Profile: The 1920s
A look at a few photographs and sketches showing Vincent Starrett in the 1920s.
Read MoreSo, you want to collect books by Vincent Starrett?
Putting together your own collection of Vincent Starrett's works is easy. Just grab a whole sack of money and head to your favorite local used book dealer. Or, you can do it the hard way, and spend 30 years gathering up items book by book.
Read MoreWith ears attuned…
A quick post celebrating the all-Starrett episode of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast, with a guest appearance by Basil Rathbone.
Read More"… from his old friend, Thornton"
The Thornton Wilder/Vincent Starrett connection. (Not a huge one. Mostly just an inscription, but it's cool to me.)
Read MoreThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in Japan, Part 2
A detailed look at the publication's history of the Japanese translations of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Read MoreThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in Japan, Part I
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has had more lives than Professor Moriarty in the Universal film series. Here's the first part of a look at the book's appearances in Japan.
Read MoreHave you a Tamerlane?
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.
Read More'The Last Bookman' at 82
The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine celebrated its most famous book reviewer with a feature story in 1969.
Read More'221B' and 1895
Michael Kean, BSI, gives thoughtful consideration to Starrett's immortal sonnet "221B" in the Winter 2013 issue of the *The Baker Street Journal*. He starts by asking a natural question: "Why 1895?" The question is a good one. His thoughts on the matter are valuable and I will not spoil them here.
Naturally, I have my own theory.
Read MoreThe Perils of Partnership: Starrett, Otto the Red and Martians
“The Menace of Mars” is a true oddity in the great library that is Vincent Starrett’s published works. It is a story about Martians, in which they never appear; it is tale of world domination in which earthlings, not aliens, are the bad guys; and it is one of the few times that Starrett collaborated with another writer.
Read MoreThe Sherlockian, the Mathematician and The Wizard of Oz
The story of a 1908 book written by L. Frank Baum that was once owned by Vincent Starrett, given to Martin Gardner, and is now sitting on my shelf.
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