Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books

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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

Young Men in Spats
$1250
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936. Octavo, [8]pp. publisher's advertisements, minor foxing & offsetting, original primary turquoise cloth lettered in black with chipped pictorial dustwrapper (bit oxidised on verso & creased on lower panel), oval 2/6 price label on spine, additional wrap-around band. First edition ‒ first issue 7/6 dustwrapper with 2/6 label. Jasen, 55; McIlvaine, A55a. Very scarce with the publisher's promotional 'Drones Club Book of the Month' wrap-around band. Collection of short stories including 'Uncle Fred Flits By' introducing Frederick, Earl of Ickenham.
Jeeves Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse
$1750
London, Herbert Jenkins, circa 1930s. Thick octavo, frontispiece, slight offsetting on endpapers, very good in original green cloth lettered & decorated in black with pictorial Abbey dustwrapper (slightly chipped, sunned on spine) priced at 7/6, publisher's green top stain. Fifth edition. McIlvaine, B1. Jeeves & Bertie stories. 'Never having been mixed up in this Omnibus Book Business before, I am ignorant of the rules of the game…. Does the publication of an Omnibus Book impose a moral obligation on the author… that he will not write any more about the characters included in it?'