Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
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Antiquarian
Australian Settlement
Colour Plate Books
Literature
Voyages & Exploration
Part of the Australian bookselling scene for 65 years. Managed by Barbara Hince.
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Highlights
THE HOME: The Australian Journal of Quality. Vol. 11, No. 5 (May 1930).
$220
Sydney, Art in Australia, 1930. Quarto, 96pp., illustrations, advertisements, original pictorial wrappers. Fabulous period design including cover art by Adrian Feint, and Deco typography.
RHYMES OF SYDNEY. Sung by Colin Wills With Backgrounds by "Wep" [William Edwin Pidgeon].
$750
Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. Quarto, 48pp. on laid paper, illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original coloured pictorial wrappers. First edition. Very scarce and ephemeral Frank Johnson publication in uncommonly good condition. Wills & Wep's Sydney of the early 1930s, flappers, six-o'clock closing, and the Harbour Bridge &c. Pidgeon's striking illustrations include his useful drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'.