Doreen and the sentimental bloke (New York: John Lane Company; Toronto : S.B. Gundy, MCMXVI)

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Component identifier:
Item 23
Content Summary:

Original dark red cloth. Title on cover in white, with device similar to Australian copies. Title on spine in white. Doreen/device/Dennis. Lettered at bottom of spine 'Gundy'. Complete with dust-jacket in colour. It depicts 'The Bloke', fully dressed, sitting dejectedly on a sea shore, with a drawing of 'Doreen' within a heart shaped border, upon the upper right hand corner. This copy contains the Montenaeken poem, also an announcement:

TO THOSE WHO HESITATE:

Of Making Many Books,

There is no End.

Brief is the Life of Most.

Doreen will Live, for The Sentimental Bloke has, with Genuine Skill, set Chords Vibrating, which are Eternal.

As David Harum said, 'There is as much Human Nature in some Folks as there is in Others, if not More.' S.B.G.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

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Available for research.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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