Search Results: Authors starting with A from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Adelaide: A. Simpson and Son Ltd, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, A. Simpson and Son Ltd, 1954. Quarto, [viii], 69 pages with several illustrations plus several pages of plates (2 in colour). Salmon pink decorated cloth; an excellent copy. A history of A. Simpson and Son Limited.

Adelaide: 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.', 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.', [1919]. Quarto, 32 pages with numerous illustrations. Pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased, with some expert conservation (sealed tears, with minor loss to the edges filled in); mild signs of use and age; overall a very good copy. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required, as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' (foreword). The extensive Nominal Roll (pages 25-31) contains about 1200 names. The contents are a little more sobering than the usual troopship journal. The Honor Roll (page 24) list 29 men and women, all but one of whom died from influenza after the ship had returned to Fremantle on 12 December (this number includes four nursing sisters). A further three pages are… Read More

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979 and 1975. Foolscap folio, two volumes bound as one, [viii], 34 and [viii], 132 pages with a map and numerous tables, graphs and illustrations. Laminated card covers; gift inscription; an excellent set. Australian Institute Aboriginal Studies New Series Number 12 and AIAS Research and Regional Studies Number 4.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975 [first thus - Volume 1 was first published separately in 1971 as 'Studies in Physical Anthropology']. Foolscap folio, two volumes bound as one, viii, [ii], 28 (last blank), [2], 132 pages with a map, tables, figures and illustrations. Laminated card covers creased (with a light crease to the subsequent four leaves); a very good copy. Australian Aboriginal Studies, Research and Regional Studies Number 5.

[Adelaide: The Author], 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Adelaide, The Author], 1970. Quarto, [ii], iv, 187 pages (rectos only) duplicate typescript plus 17 pages of illustrations (several folding, including several original photographs) and a small transparency mounted on the rear pastedown with sticky tape. Publisher's cloth slightly scuffed, scratched and marked; free endpapers and adjacent leaf slightly cockled; rear flyleaf slightly marked and with slight surface tears and the intriguing remains of a previously-mounted newspaper clipping; overall an excellent copy. Thesis presented as part requirement for an Honours degree in the Faculty of Arts, Department of History, University of Adelaide, 1970. On the front flyleaf is the author's later ownership sigature (as Margaret Abbie Denton, in thick ink) and a tipped-in photocopy annotated in a similar hand. Tipped-in to the front pastedown is a manuscript letter to the author listing 5 possible corrections with a warm note beneath,… Read More

Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books/ IAD Press Centre, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Alice Springs, Jukurrpa Books/ IAD Press Centre, 1999. Quarto, x, 99 pages with numerous illustrations (most in colour) and a colour map. Colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

Sydney: Currawong, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Currawong, [c.1944]. Octavo; papered boards a little browned at the extremities; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little lightly marked on the rear panel and slightly creased and torn at the head of the spine. Dustwrapper design by John Andrews.

Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1995; Kent Town: Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and Wakefield Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1995; Kent Town, Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and Wakefield Press, 1997; and Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2009. Three volumes, octavo (of differing heights); colour-pictorial paperbacks (the only bindings issued); trifling signs of use; excellent copies. All three volumes are inscribed and signed by the author (the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015) to his editor and friend Christopher Pearson (1951-2013). The fulsome inscriptions are, respectively: 'To Christopher, without whom this could never have happened. Tony Abbott. 30/9/95'; 'To Christopher without whose help this could not have even been begun. Cheers Tony Abbott, 11/11/97'; and 'Christopher, This could not have happened - certainly not have happened so well - without you. To my co-author! Tony Abbott'. [3 items].

London: The Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1977 (first thus). Octavo, 131 pages with illustrations from wood-engravings by Raymond Hawthorn plus endpaper maps. Gilt-decorated cloth; a near-fine copy lacking the slipcase. Translated and with an introduction and notes by Betty Radice.

Norwood: City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Norwood, City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters, 2006. Quarto, 82 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

New York: Harry N. Abrams/ Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. New York, Harry N. Abrams/ Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1981. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers; a trifle rubbed, bumped and creased; very small, neat library cancellation marks; an excellent copy.

Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Small quarto, 66 pages with 5 maps (4 folding) and a number of illustrations from photographs (one full-page). Pictorial wrappers sunned about the spine and rubbed; original price label to the rear cover; overall a very good copy. Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.

Leeton: [The Author], 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Leeton, [The Author], 1943. Octavo, 76 pages with 2 maps and 43 pages of plates. Wrappers unevenly sunned; foot of the spine a little torn; a very good copy. The third in the five-part series on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and Central NSW; 'this volume is devoted to the native art ... to the rock engravings and cave paintings' (from the two-page foreword by C.P. Mountford).

Marrickville: Labour Press Books, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Marrickville, Labour Press Books, 1994. Octavo, 158 pages, [7] (publisher's advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs). Pictorial card covers a little rubbed; pages slightly thumbed; edges slightly marked; a very good copy. 'This volume contains the record of the campaign conducted by the Socialist Labour league and the Committee for a Workers Inquiry' (from the blurb).

Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1980. Small quarto, 60 pages with 7 maps and a number of illustrations from photographs (one full-page). Pictorial wrappers a little rubbed and sunned about the spine; a very good copy. Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.

London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Chapman and Hall Limited, 1912 (fourth edition)/ 1911. Octavo, xii, 338 pages plus 24 pages of plates. Blind-stamped cloth a little scuffed; spine lightly sunned on the spine; mild signs of use and age; with the bookplate of William Godley mounted on the front pastedown; a very good copy.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1931. Octavo; quarter red cloth and grey papered boards; paper titling label laid down on the spine; covers a little tanned at the extremities, and slightly marked; gift inscription (dated 1944); a very good copy. Translation from the French by Margaret Gaffey Mel. With Drawings from the French Edition by D. Olere.

Annapolis: Gold Horse, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Annapolis, Gold Horse, 1993 and 1994. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; ownership details; Volume 1 lightly rubbed on the rear cover; an excellent set.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Small quarto; papered boards; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very slightly bumped.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Chatto and Windus, 1998 (third printing)/ 1998. Octavo; papered boards; ownership signature; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a trifle creased. Signed by the author on the title page.