Vincent Starrett
Birth date: October 26, 1886
Died: January 05, 1974
Vincent Starrett's Books
Not the book I expected. I bought it because it was advertised to be a book about a bookman - and it is, but it's a biography of Starrett's life, not a memoir of his book buying and selling. Almost nothing at all about his bookman role, actually. What he talks about most are his days as a journal...
I was thinking it would be something other than what it was. Still it was interesting.
A hodgepodge of essays, poems and revisions of other people's stories, all by H. P. Lovecraft. Also included are appreciative essays on Lovecraft by other scholars.But the unanimous star of the book is the title piece, "Something About Cats". This is an essay by Lovecraft in which he explains his pr...