(2 Copies) In Praise of Stevenson SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Vincent Starrett, Robert Louis Stevenson

(2 Copies) In Praise of Stevenson SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Vincent Starrett, Robert Louis Stevenson
"In Praise of Stevenson" by Vincent Starrett. First Edition limited to 325 copies. Inscribed copy Vincent Starrett, with an inscription of a quote from Stevenson: "I wonder exceedingly if I have done anything at all good; and who can tell me? and why should I wish to know? In so little a while I, and the English language and the bones of my descendants will have ceased to be a memory! And yet - and yet - one would like to leave an image for a few years upon men's minds for fun." Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father moved the family to Chicago in 1889 where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. 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. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. 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.[3] This story involved the detective investigating a missing 1604 inscribed edition of Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'.