“PENNY DREADFULS”
£SOOO COLLECTION
SYDNEY. Feb. 24.—Mr. F. X. Harrison, - \yli,o reached Sydney yesterday in the /Tasman, has a collection of “penny dreadfuls” valued by booksellers at more than £SOOO. He is the v. oriel’s foremost- collector of the literature whicll curdled the blood of the young in the pre-moving picture era. “It is a lowbrow collection with a highbrow clientele,”' said. Mr. Harrison, who is ffe-tter’known in England as Harry Quo,‘y a ,leading e’omedian of the variety) stage. “It has interested professors;, librarians, editor’s, and others front- all parts of the world.” One series of “shockers,” produced in the middle, of, last century, is worth £3O a copy. -Mr. Harrison lias copies of the first- two- numbers, and he is looking for the others.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 157, 13 March 1939, Page 2
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125“PENNY DREADFULS” Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 157, 13 March 1939, Page 2
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