Stephen Crane; A Bibliography
Philadelphia, PA: The Centaur Book Shop, 1923. Limited Edition, Number 193 of 300. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 8 inches. Frontis portrait tipped in with facsimile signature. Ex-library with the usual library markings. This is one of The Centaur Bibliographies of Modern American Authors. This is the second of the Centaur Bibliography done by the bookfellows at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. When that paper folded two years later he began working for the Chicago Daily News as a crime reporter, a feature writer, and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet". Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by Randall Stock documents 110. This story involved the detective investigating a missing 1602 inscribed edition of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Starrett's most famous work, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1933. Following that, Starrett wrote a book column, "Books Alive," for The Chicago Tribune. He retired after 25 years of the column in 1967. Starrett was one of the founders of The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), a Chicago chapter of The Baker Street Irregulars. His influential weekly column "Books Alive" ran in the Chicago Tribune for 25 years. Starrett wrote: Collecting Stephen Crane is a labor of love (p. 6). More