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STARRETT, Vincent (1886-1974). A group of 7 titles by or related to Starrett, including: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine toned and rubbed, corners rubbed, some soiling to boards near fore-edges); publisher’s printed price-clipped dust jacket (ink-stamp on front flap, spine toned and edgeworn, some wear, soiling, offsetting to jacket). With Starrett’s bookplate laid-in. FIRST EDITION. -- Another copy. Indianapolis: Gasogene Books, [2008]. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt; publisher’s printed dust jacket. With one page prospectus. 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR RAY BETZNER AND SHERLOCKIANS STEVEN T. DOYLE AND MARK GAGEN ON THE TITLE-PAGE. -- “A Catalogue of Original Manuscripts, and First and Other Important Editions of the Tales of Sherlock Holmes…” New York: The Scribner Book Store, [1937]. 4to. Original wrappers (wrappers are detached at spine). FIRST EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS CATALOGUE OF STARRETT’S PERSONAL HOLMES LIBRARY. -- Another copy. Starrett Memorial Library, 1976. 4to. Bound in publisher’s gilt-stamped full gray cloth. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE SCRIBNER CATALOGUE, LIMITED ISSUE, number 110 of 300 copies SIGNED BY MICHAEL MURPHY WHO WROTE THE INTRODUCTION. -- An Exhibit from the Vincent Starrett Library… Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1989 8vo. Illustrated. Original wrappers. -- Vincent Starrett In Memoriam. [Culver City: Pontine Press, 1974]. 8vo. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 400 copies. -- A Vincent Starrett Catalogue. [Oakville: Norfolk-Hall, 1979]. 8vo. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Starrett wrote (about the Scribner Book Store catalogue): “It was made up almost from my personal collection of Sherlockiana… David Randall and I had collaborated on the catalogue and spiked it with a number of items, I am afraid never existed in this world…”