Petronius (Trimalchio's Banquet)

London: Walter Scott Publishing, [circa 1900].

Price: $350.00

Hardcover. The "Two Readings" edition. Very good with light fraying at the spine ends, lightly bumped corners, paper spine label is browned (a replacement label is laid into the book), a small round stain on the front board. Vincent Starrett's copy with his bookplate tipped onto the front pastedown and his Signature on the verso of the front endpaper. The Trimalchio character from *The Satyricon* fascinated F. Scott Fitzgerald and *Trimalchio* was his original and preferred title for *The Great Gatsby*.

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Item #339702 Petronius (Trimalchio's Banquet). Vincent STARRETT, Michael J. RYAN.

Vincent Starrett
birth name: Vincent Starrett
born: 10/26/1886
died: 1/4/1974

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Journalist and mystery author Vincent Starrett, author of The Unique Hamlet, Murder on B Deck, and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.more