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STARRETT, Vincent. The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Chicago: privately printed, 1920.
8o. (Some staining to margins.) Original brown boards, printed paper spine label (board edges and spine smoke damaged). Provenance: A. Edward Newton (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY, LIMITED EDITION, one of 190 copies privately printed for Walter M. Hill of an edition of 200. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To A. EDWARD NEWTON, with sincere although tardy holiday wishes" [5 January 1921], and inscribed and signed by Walter M. Hill. VERY RARE, "one of the rarest pieces of Sherlockiana--it is virtually nonextant" (Queen, p. 72) and A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. De Waal 6108; Queen's Quorum 66; Honce 7.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY, LIMITED EDITION, one of 190 copies privately printed for Walter M. Hill of an edition of 200. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To A. EDWARD NEWTON, with sincere although tardy holiday wishes" [5 January 1921], and inscribed and signed by Walter M. Hill. VERY RARE, "one of the rarest pieces of Sherlockiana--it is virtually nonextant" (Queen, p. 72) and A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. De Waal 6108; Queen's Quorum 66; Honce 7.