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.
Highlights
WILSON, Samuel, Salmon at the Antipodes Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters.
$1750
London, Edward Stanford, 1879.
Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown.
'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year.
Author’s presentation copy.
NEILSON, John Shaw, BEAUTY IMPOSES: Some Recent Verse.
$750
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938.
Octavo, offsetting on endpapers, but very good in original eucalypt grey cloth with plain blue dustwrapper (bit sunned) with printed title label.
First edition ‒ scarce cloth issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. (The trade edition was issued in uniform blue wrappers, selling for 3/6.)
HANDBOOK OF TASMANIA: Section I. Information For Immigrants and Statistics.
$275
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1914.
Octavo, 80 pp., illustrations, original pictorial wrappers (slightly rubbed). Scarce in part form.
ORWELL, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a Novel.
$1500
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Octavo, original cloth lettered in red and black, a fine copy in near fine red dustwrapper.
First American edition. In the four days after Donald Trump's Counselor used the phrase 'alternative facts' to justify her (false) claim that the 2017 inauguration had been watched by the largest audience ever, sales of this Orwell novel surged by 10,000 copies- making it a No. 1 bestseller.
Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell and his Big Brother, Thought Police, and Ministry of Truth are just as vital.
Lawrence, D.H., The Virgin and the Gipsy
$650
Florence, G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, two pages roughly opened, original white boards with original spine paper label lettered in orange, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, in decorated dustwrapper: a fine copy. First edition: limited to 810 numbered copies on hand-made paper.