STARRETT, Vincent. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

(London): George, Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1961.  First edition thus.  Hardcover.  22cm by 14.6cm.  155 pages.  Revised and enlarged edition of Starrett’s semi-serious imaginative recreation of Sherlock Holmes which provides a biography and vivid portrait of a man who never actually existed.  A very good copy in dust jacket.