“PENNY DREADFULS”
£SOOO COLLECTION SYDNEY, Feb. 24. Mr. F. V. Harrison, who reached Sydney yesterday in the Tasman, has a collection of “penny dreadfuls” valued by booksellers at more than £SOOO. He is the world's foremost collector of the literature which 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 better known in England as Barry Ono, a leading comedian of the variety stage. “It has interested professors, librarians, editors, and others from all parts of the world.” Ono series of “shockers,” produced in the middle of last century, is worth £3O a copy. Mr. Harrison has copies of the first two numbers, and he is looking for the others.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 12
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