STARRETT, Vincent (1886-1974). A group of 4 books signed by Starrett, including:
BENNET, James O’ Donnel. Mas ich auf dem kriegschauplatz fah… Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1915. 8vo. Printed wrappers (front wrapper detached, yet present, wrappers toned and edgeworn). FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Starrett’s copy with his signature on the title-page. --Persons from Porlock and Other Interruptions. Chicago: Normandie House, 1938. 8vo. Original black cloth backstrip over green boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt (very minor toning, rubbing to binding, light toning to text); original dust jacket (spine toned, lightly rubbed, a few short marginal tears). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 399 UNNUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY STARRETT ON THE COLOPHON. -- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1960]. 8vo. Illustrated. Original red cloth backstrip over pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine toned, minor rubbing, toning to board-edges); original printed dust jacket (jacket mildly sunned, vertical creases to jacket panels, some rubbing to jacket). REVISED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY STARRETT on the front free endpaper: “Robert G. Harris with canonical regard-Vincent Starrett”. -- Late, Later and Possibly Last. Essays by Vincent Starrett. St. Louis: Autolycus Press, [1973]. 8vo. Original deluxe binding of full black morocco, front board stamped in gilt. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 UNNUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY STARRETT AND CO-AUTHOR MICHAEL MURPHY.