The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. First Thus. Octavo (22cm); publisher’s graphic dust jacket with $4.75 price intact; publisher’s illustrated boards with red cloth spine and gilt lettering; 156pp. Cream endsheets. Includes twelve page spread of black-and-white photographs with a few scattered illustrations throughout. Jacket shows a few shallow tears and rubbing along edges with general scuffs and smudges to surface; spine sunned with shallow tears at head and tail. Front board shows a small superficial scratch; spine is bumped and slightly discolored. Toning and spotting to edges (truncated) of textblock. Endsheets clean. Binding sound; pages clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket.

In The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett constructs a whimsical biography of the fictional sleuth. Revised version of the 1933 edition. (Inventory #: 32918)