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

Ann Arbor: Printed by Edwards Brothers Malloy for Xlibris, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Ann Arbor, Printed by Edwards Brothers Malloy for Xlibris, 2017. Quarto; colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. The 'satirical tale of artist Hephzibah Brown, who is persuaded by Cedric, the Imp of Perversity, to follow him to the recently independent Ghana, following with the temptation that they will compose a tourist book for him to write and for her to illustrate. She does follow, but knowing his unreliability, she changes it to a book about tourists-one a pragmatist and the other an idealist. And more than this, her tourist will be a woman. The novel becomes an examination of real life being a form of transience' (rear cover).

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). Quarto, xx, 361 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Decorated cloth; an excellent copy in the slipcase a little bumped and slightly marked.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974 [first thus]/ 1970. Small quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed and marked dustwrapper. A revised and expanded edition of 'Cooking a la Cordon Bleu'.

Chalford: Amberley, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Chalford, Amberley, 2010. Octavo, 123, [3] (publisher's list) pages with numerous illustrations plus 16 pages of plates (11 in colour). Papered boards; an excellent copy with the unevenly tanned dustwrapper. 'In December 1940, as the coldest winter in living memory fastened its grip on war torn France, the Nazi conquerors rounded up nearly 5,000 people, mostly women and children, and sent them to an internment camp ... The conditions in Frontstalag 142 are revealed here in all their harrowing detail' (dustwrapper).

Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2016. Octavo; colour laminated pictorial card covers; stains to half a dozen leaves; a very good copy. Inscribed and signed by the author to Alan Brissenden, 'For Alan, with warmest regards, Mike Ladd'.

Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1993. Quarto, 104 pages with numerous illustrations. Papered boards; ink ownership details on the front flyleaf; a fine copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper.

Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1993 (first Australian edition)/ 1991. Quarto, [vi], 170 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper illustrations. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very slightly creased at the spine (with a couple of tiny tears).

Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2008. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy.

London: Osprey Publishing, 1986. Paperback. Fine. London, Osprey Publishing, 1986/ 1982. Small quarto; laminated coloured pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Number 123 in the Men-At-Arms Series.

Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1993. Small quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent, slightly creased dustwrapper.

[Paris]: Georges Sauvaget for Les Amis des Travailleurs Intellectuels, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. [Paris], Georges Sauvaget for Les Amis des Travailleurs Intellectuels, 1927. Quarto, [viii], 79 pages (printed on Annam paper) with 9 original etchings. Unbound in the original wrappers; scattered light foxing throughout; faint offsetting from the etchings; an excellent copy with the original plain glassine dustwrapper, housed in a cloth-covered clamshell case (possibly original, now a little worn and split). Number 302 of 400 copies (of which 50 were not for sale), numbered and initialled by the publisher, with nine original etchings by Luc Lafnet. The 'Dîner du Quatrain' was a dining club whose members were required to contribute at least one original quatrain at each meeting. At the end of the meal, members awarded each poem a score from zero to 10 (the voting being 'habituellement dépourvue de bienveillance'), and the poem with the highest score was declared the winner.… Read More

Paris: Éditions de la Banderole, 1922. Paperback. Very Good. Paris, Éditions de la Banderole, 1922 [first thus]. Quarto, [viii] (first leaf blank), 205 pages printed in black and brown, with wood-engraved ornaments, initials and illustrations by Daragnès. In a contemporary Art Deco fine binding of full olive green morocco by René Kieffer Reliures d'Art, retaining the original colour pictorial wrappers (with the spine mounted on a guard at the rear); sides stamped in blind with a floriate design; spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers lightly sunned about the spine; edges a little dusty; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy. Number 165 of a total edition of 700 copies, this being one of 594 copies on vélin d'Arches' paper (numbered 107-700).

London: The Mallinson Publishing Company, Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Mallinson Publishing Company, Ltd., 1933. Octavo, viii, 237 pages plus a limitation leaf, a frontispiece portrait of Charles Lahr by Nina Hamnett, and pictorial endpapers. Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut (and unopened); cloth a little sunned, discoloured and slightly rubbed; limitation page a little smudged; a very good copy (internally fine). A collection of eighteen short stories dedicated to bookseller and anarchist Charles Lahr. This is number 56 of 95 copies signed by all 18 contributors, of which only 85 copies were for sale. The contributors are: John Arrow, H.E. Bates, Oswell Blakeston, Alec Bristow, John Brophy, Rhys Davies, Charles Duff, Rupert Croft-Cooke, John Hampson, John Lindsay, Eimar O'Duffy, Seán O'Faoláin, Liam O'Flaherty, L.A. Pavey, T.F. Powys, Gay Taylor, Geoffrey West, and Malachi Whitaker. The portrait is signed by Nina Hamnett:… Read More

Wellington: Grantham House, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wellington, Grantham House, 1989. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide, Rigby, 1977. Small quarto, 64 pages with numerous illustrations. Papered boards slightly rubbed; edges foxed; a very good copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly foxed on the verso).

Clare: The Author, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Clare, The Author, 2012. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author.

Selangor: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society (West Malaysia Chapter) and Oxford University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Selangor, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society (West Malaysia Chapter) and Oxford University Press, 1985. Small folio, x, 150 pages with over 400 illustrations (many in colour) and several maps plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper fine but for a few light indentations to the rear panel. The catalogue of the Society's Second Members' Exhibition, held in the Muzium Senia Asia, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 1985. One of 1500 copies.

London: The Pilgrim Progress, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Pilgrim Progress, [circa 1926]. Quarto; decorated red cloth with a colour pictorial plate laid down on the front cover; covers a little flecked, sunned, rubbed, bumped, scuffed and marked; edges slightly marked; a very good copy.

[Armidale]: Armidale Diocesan Council, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. [Armidale], Armidale Diocesan Council, [1993]. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers very slightly spotted and lightly creased; an excellent copy.

London: Professional Books, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Professional Books, 1972 [facsimile edition]/ 1582. Octavo, 16, [viii], 512 [last one blank], [15] pages. Cloth slightly bumped at the head of the spine; leading edge very lightly marked; an excellent copy. One of the Classical English Law Texts series; this volume has a 14-page introduction by the general editor, P.R. Glazebrook. With the name-stamp of Howard Zelling, sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia.