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Chicago: Normandie House, 1938. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wrappers.

Chicago:: Normandie House,, 1938.. One of 399 copies signed by Starrett.. original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. 8vo,.

Chicago: NORMANDIE HOUSE, 1938. First Limited Edition: 1 of 399 copies. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the Colophon, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over pale green boards with gold author & title "squared" on front cover, Introduction by George Steele Seymour, archival mylar-protected lettered light green jacket (publisher's bevelled corners), 95 pages + [3] Colophon. Charles VINCENT STARRETT (1886 - 1974), an American author of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [1933], as well as detective novels and horror/fantasy stories such as The Quick and the Dead for Arkham House in [1965]); a newspaperman who wrote the column "Books Alive" for the Chicago Tribune; a poet of considerable ability (Autolycus in Limbo [1943]); and very well known bibliophile. <br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL COPY in all respects! No previous owner's signature. Starett's signature is on the Colophon.