Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books
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Antiquarian
Australian Settlement
Literature
Voyages & Exploration
Voyages to Australia
Part of the Australian bookselling scene for 65 years. Managed by Barbara Hince.
Contact Information
Email: bookshop@hincebooks.com.au
Phone: +61 3 7065 0858
Website: http://www.hincebooks.com.au/
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Highlights
The Great Sermon Handicap by P.G. Wodehouse.
$1500
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1933]. Duodecimo, neat contemporary inscription on rear free endpaper, very good in original gilt-lettered and decorated crimson boards with pictorial dustwrapper (minor foxing), marbled endpapers. First separate edition. McIlvaine, A49a. Charming small format edition (with dustwrapper in uncommonly good condition) of the quintessential Jeeves & Bertie story: '"Well, all I can say," he cried, "is that it's a bit thick! Preaching another man's sermon! Do you call that honest? Do you call that playing the game?"'
Power Without Glory a Novel in Three Parts by Frank J. Hardy "Ross Franklyn".
$440
Melbourne, Realist Printing and Publishing Co., 1950. Octavo, illustrations, name & date (August 1950) on front paste-down, original brick red cloth lettered in black on spine with Ambrose Dyson dustwrapper (bit chipped). First edition. With loosely inserted contemporary (folded foolscap folio) processed typescript key to the characters.
While the first edition had an unusually large print run, the dustwrapper – especially in good state – is uncommon. Cains, 64.
Hector Berlioz signed autograph letter
$2200
Written to Joanna Pohl, wife of Berlioz's translator, the writer and journalist Richard Pohl, urging her to refrain from asking Liszt to the concert, as the pieces are already known to him and there will not be anything to engage his interest. Nothing of the The Trojans will be performed this summer, it would have been rather out of place.
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley by Grahame Walsh
$2000
Published in 2000, this is the most comprehensive and lavishly illustrated record of Gwion Gwion art.
Salmon at the Antipodes Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters by Sir Samuel Wilson.
$1750
London, Edward Stanford, 1879. 'Third edition'. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, lemon china clay endpapers, bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown, near fine. Presentation copy.
Inheritors: A Novel by Brian Penton.
$850
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1936. Demy octavo, small bookseller's label on front pastedown, very good in bright original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on spine with Norman Lindsay dustwrapper, few blemishes but in uncommonly good condition. First edition. Second volume of Penton's unfinished trilogy. Very scarce with the fabulous Lindsay dustwrapper.
Salmon at the Antipodes Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters by Sir Samuel Wilson.
$5500
London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, publisher's elaborate gilt-decorated presentation crimson morocco, spine with raised bands, vignette of a salmon in black on front board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 'Third edition'. Fine copy of the rare & handsome de luxe issue ‒ not noted by Ferguson.
Trutta the Trout by David Scholes. Illustrations by Monika Bisits.
$2000
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, pale foxing on edges, olive endpapers, publisher's green leather lettered in gilt on spine with trout vignette on front board.
First edition.
One of 20 specially bound copies, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator (this copy additionally signed by the Scholes on the title-page).
One of the publisher Richard Griffin's idiosyncratic limited editions.
Rare by definition.