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THE BLUE DOOR.
Garden City: Published For The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1930. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. Contains several Jimmie Lavender stories as well as a story featuring an antiquarian bookseller.
BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
New York: Argus Books, Inc., 1947. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Starrett's commentary on the world of books and bookmen. Includes sections on Sherlock Holmes.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xiv] 1-214, nine inserted plates, original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, fore edge untrimmed, top and bottom edges trimmed, top edge stained black. First edition. A cornerstone book and considered the first in Sherlock Holmes scholarship.
SEAPORTS IN THE MOON: A FANTASIA ON ROMANTIC THEMES.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-289 [290-292: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, orange coated endpapers. First edition. Signed inscription by Starrett on the second end paper. Episodes in the lives of real and imaginary literary figures from the late fifteenth century to the 1920s linked by their possession of a vial containing water from the legendary fountain of youth. [Reference: Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13571].