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Papers" (published in 19 para) Mr. Little said that his wife and

had been sold at auction at the record price of $3,260, the collec- himself were going to Australia

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Hatton, a retired Leicester boot and see if they could and w Zealand to

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ever known. "I understand that able books, said: keenest interest in what is happen the cry, hands off China, is being ing in China, because the deliberato alms of the Nationalist Party there used here," he continued, and the supporters say that no assistance are to break up the British Em-should be sent, either in troops, pire. The responsible heads of the Government stated that to me them-food, or ammunition. That cry ori- ginated in Moscow, and has been selves in December last, at Kuling, sirculated, all over the British Em- from which place we were ail

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agents, and any man who joins the World Revolution.

associations is simply helping the They told me that the policy of Moscow Bolshevista against the the Chinese was to make the whole British Empire and Australia. of China Bolshevik, and sald that People learn these parrot-like cries, when they had done that it would such as 'Down with Imperialism, be the first step in their world re- though 99 per cent. of them do not volution. They said that they were know what it means, and there is going to try and get back Hong

no more tyrannous Imperialism in Kong, which is a British Colony, this world, in this, or any other and the Strafts Settlements, and generation, than the most impres- then proceed to tackle other por-eive tyranny of the Chinese nation tiona of the British Empire. alista."

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Perhaps I am not so much a col- lector as a Dickens lover. I have devoted 20 years to forming this collection of 19 books-18 single shilling issues and one "Christmas double number" 28. issue that are supposed to make a 20-part "Pick- wick" and now it has gone.

Some Americans who were visit- Ing England this summer heard of my collection, visited me, and per- suaded and persuaded until I said

I would sell, The moment the books had gone I began to regret my decision.

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I loved Dickens as a boy and with my first few shiillage began frat to buy what I thought were

that wanted the paper-bound editions. Then it dawned on me

issues, and not stiff covors, so I began to buy them. While hurting for the 19 copies I was continually throwing out one copy for a better one discovered somewhere, so that at one time I had more than 40 coples to my hands.

You must remember that only 400 of Parts 1, 2, and 3 wore sold,' and that when Sam Weller arrived there was such a surge of interest that Parts 1, 2, and 8 wore re- printed.

It was the first of the first edi- tion that I always wanted-the first off the machines, Thousands of such things as broken letters WOMEN LOVE TO TALK and blurs had to be searched for.i about the merits of Pinkettes be- I think my set particularly valu- cause they know that one of able because it has the advertise woman's worst troubles is prompt-ments-little slips that used to be ly and easily remedied by the sewn in. occasional use of these dainty little regulatore.

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I go one by buying the whole Dickens stock of a London book- seller. Another time I had to buy a huge quantity of mixed books for £106 to get one paper-covered copy. Although money was not my aim, I sold off my remainders at a price that paid for every Pickwick I ever bought, so that this £3,260 is all profit. I am going on as a Dickens collector, but this time not to sell.

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