The Books
click on titles for notes, tables of contents, introductions,
excerpts and, beginning with the first three volumes,
contemporary reviews*
“Dear Starrett--”/“Dear Briggs--” (1989)
Irregular Memories of the ’Thirties (1990)
Irregular Records of the Early ’Forties (1991)
Irregular Proceedings of the Mid ’Forties (1995)
Irregular Crises of the Late ’Forties (1999)
with a link to Philip Shreffler’s chapter “The Original Series BSJ: Quintessence of Irregular,” and the 1951 BSI dinner photograph at the Racquet Club with notes about it as the new venue as of 1948.
Disjecta Membra: Stray Scraps of Irregular History (2001)
“Certain Rites, and Also Certain Duties” (2009)
Including the complete text of ch. 3, “The Second Most Dangerous Toast in New York.”
TO COME:
Edgar W. Smith: Prolegomena to Any Future Biography
The 1950s Volumes
* The first three volumes’ reviews, by Irregulars Albert & Julia Rosenblatt, W. T. Rabe, and Donald A. Yates, are taken from contemporary issues of Baker Street Miscellanea, whose entire nineteen-year, 76-issue run is now available on CD-ROM. For information and to order, contact co-founder and final editor Donald Pollock at donaldkpollock@gmail.com.