C.J.Dennis Book
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:45 pm
I was watching on the TV to-day a program on the ABC called The Collectors.
A person had sent them a book for valuation, it was a 1956 edition of The Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis.
The presenter said that this book would normally be worth about $20, but this one had been owned by Vance Palmer and in the front of the book was an original drawing by Hal Gye depicting C.J.Dennis and Hal Gye as caricatures. Hal Gye was the original illustrator for C.J.Dennis books.
The ABC presenter, Claudia Chan Shaw, estimated the value of the book as $1500. Not bad for an old bush poetry book.
A person had sent them a book for valuation, it was a 1956 edition of The Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis.
The presenter said that this book would normally be worth about $20, but this one had been owned by Vance Palmer and in the front of the book was an original drawing by Hal Gye depicting C.J.Dennis and Hal Gye as caricatures. Hal Gye was the original illustrator for C.J.Dennis books.
The ABC presenter, Claudia Chan Shaw, estimated the value of the book as $1500. Not bad for an old bush poetry book.