From the Wikipedia article on Starrett, "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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Starrett
The same bookseller had a couple of other items I was interested in so the order got bigger. I love Donald Wandrei and poetry so how could I resist Poems for Midnight. Both Arkham House books have covers by Frank Utpatel one of my favourite Arkham House cover artists. 
These Ballantine editions with covers by John Homes were the Lovecraft books I started reading as a teenager. I did not keep them when I graduated to the hardcovers Arkham House put out in the late 1980's. So now that I have decided I would like copies I can enjoy tracking down and buying vastly more expensive used copies. Other titles appear here.
https://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-eldritch-tomes-saskatoon-2018.html
The last book in this order A Man Called Poe: Stories in the Vein of Edgar Allan Poe (cover by Josh Kirby) contained among other items the short story "In Which an Author and His Character Are Well Met" by Vincent Starrett. Isn't this were we came in maybe but we are not quite done.
Not quite Helen and I finally went out Friday to the Inglewood neighbourhood where we like to shop. The stores were finally open again. A building that was a mere frame the last time we were there was almost finished, it has been a long time. At The Next Page bookstore which, sells both new and used books I was able to find a number of horror anthologies, something I rarely encounter. The covers were a bit scrapped up but at $4 each I was delighted to give them a home.
I could not find the cover artist for these two books but I would love to know.
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