Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
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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.

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Email: bookshop@hincebooks.com.au
Phone: +61 3 7065 0858
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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.
Leonard Mann, A Murder in Sydney.
$275
Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Octavo, very good in original turquoise cloth blocked in black with pictorial dustwrapper priced at $2.00, publisher's green topstain, other edges uncut (publisher's small remainder? 'J' stamps on front pastedown & front flap as found on all copies examined). First US edition. Scarce. Often mis-described as a crime novel, Mann preferred his working title 'The Disaffected', but this was changed by his Australian publisher.