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

London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. London, Thames & Hudson, 2000. Quarto, 224 pages with 228 illustrations from photographs (many full-page, 87 in colour). Papered boards very slightly rubbed; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.

London: Merrell and The Natural History Museum, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London, Merrell and The Natural History Museum, 2000. Large quarto, 128 pages with numerous illustrations and 61 colour plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper (lightly unevenly sunned on the rear panel). 'The revolutionary drawings of Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century.... Most of the drawings in this volume ... are published here for the first time'.

London: Century, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. London, Century, 1988. Quarto, xvi, 208 pages with 183 colour illustrations. Papered boards; text block slightly cockled; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper.

New York: Morgan, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. New York, Morgan, 1983 (first edition). Quarto, (iv), 117 pages with 116 plates. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. MacAdams' superb photographs: the "book was so long in making that it is nearly two books.... The first fantasy of an island of women giving way to a more sophisticated study of the nude" (from Kate Millett's preface).

Black Rock: Contrad Bailey at The Port Phillip Bay Press, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Black Rock, Contrad Bailey at The Port Phillip Bay Press, 1975. Octavo, [iv], 43 pages. Card covers with attached dusterapper; covers slightly rubbed, with one tiny closed tear and two unobtrusive staple holes; bottom corner bumped; some faint offsetting; a very good copy. One of only 175 copies of the first edition. This copy is inscribed 'With the Author's compliments'.

Terrey Hills: Australian Geographic, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Terrey Hills, Australian Geographic, 1992. Large octavo, 280 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour) and endpaper maps. Papered boards; ownership stamp; n excellent copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Signed in ink on the half-title page by the author. The summit of Everest, unassisted and without supplementary oxygen, after a 1000 kilometre walk from the Bay of Bengal through north-east India, Nepal and the Himalayan foothills.

London: The Folio Press, 1988. Hardcover. London, The Folio Press, 1988 (first thus). Octavo, xxii, 89 pages. Quarter cloth and marbled boards; title label mounted on the front cover and spine; top edge gilt, leading edge uncut; covers very slightly bowed; a near-fine copy with the transparent acetate dustwrapper a little cockled. One of a small series of letterpress editions produced by The Folio Society under the Folio Press imprint. With the author's preface.

London: Oxford University Press/ Humphrey Milford, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Oxford University Press/ Humphrey Milford, 1932. Octavo; gilt-decorated full calf; gilt-decorated spine; five raised spine bands; leather titling label; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; covers slightly scuffed; spine lightly sunned; initial leaves very slightly foxed; a very good copy. Prize Binding of Scotch College, Melbourne. With the 1934 prize label laid down on the front pastedown.

Glasgow: Blackie, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Glasgow, Blackie, 1975. Quarto, xx, 451 pages with 194 illustrations. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, rubbed and with a very short closed tear.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1995 (paperback edition)/ 1994. Octavo, xx, 780 pages with numerous illustrations and pages of plates (some in colour). Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is the invitation to the opening of the SA Art Gallery's exhibition 2002 "Morris and Co.

Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. Octavo, 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered limp boards, with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers lightly marked; head of the spine slightly chipped; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. That being said, copies of this original printing are now rare nearly a century and a half later. Marshall MacDermott (1791-1877) arrived in Adelaide in 1846 and after nearly three worthy and earnest decades here penned these memoirs, decidedly brief when it comes to Australian content. Up until page 35, he reminiscences about his 22 years in the British army. He chose Western Australia as his future residence, and arrived there… Read More

Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. Octavo, 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards, with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; some discolouration to the front endpapers from a newspaper cutting; essentially a very fine copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed to 'Percival Randolph Stow, from his affectionate grandfather' and signed by the author. Stow, a son of Judge Randolph Stow, was the second husband of Catherine Stow (Katie Langloh Parker). Loosely inserted is a 1941 newspaper clipping containing a brief biography of the author, an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846; he died in 1877.

Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. Octavo, 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards, with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked; front flyleaf removed; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed on the verso of the title page to 'Charlotte de S. Dutton with kind regards' and signed by the author. MacDermott, an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846, died in 1877. The provenance is most interesting: Charlotte de S. Dutton was the widow of William Hampden Dutton (1805-1849); her mother's maiden name was Da Silva. In 1849, William's brother… Read More

Adelaide: LBSA, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, LBSA, 1969 (facsimile)/ 1874. Octavo, 53 pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards; a fine copy. Peade A189: only 513 copies printed.

London: Robert Hale, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Robert Hale, 1975 (first English edition). Octavo; papered boards; extremities very slightly bumped; rear cover and rear pastedown slightly tide-marked; a very good copy with the unclipped dustwrapper with a very slight tear to the head of the spine with trifling loss.

Bundaberg: Corkwood Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1994 (facsimile edition)/ 1865. Duodecimo, [vi], 60 pages plus a large folding map. Black cloth; commercial bookplate to the front pastedown; a fine copy. Number 193 of 250 copies (the first 30 of which comprised a deluxe issue).

Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1937. Octavo, 190 pages plus 49 plates. Cloth; spine, corners and edges slightly bumped and rubbed; ownership stamp on front fly; half-title page and corresponding rear page discoloured; a very good copy.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1932. Quarto, xii, 127 pages with illustrations by Angus MacDonald. Cloth; a little unevenly sunned, front board a little bowed; top edge foxed endpapers offset; a very good copy. General Sir Ian Hamilton states in his introduction: 'Major Lin MacDonald's book (shows) the real Digger as he became known to the British officers at the Dardenelles'; however, the book seems to have been overlooked by the military bibliographies (but certainly in Muir!).

London: Viking Penguin, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Viking Penguin, 1998/ 1998. Octavo; papered boards; an excellent copy with the sligtly creased dustwrapper.

Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1937. Octavo, 190 pages plus 49 plates. Cloth a little bumped, rubbed or very slightly worn at the extremities, and a little flecked, marked and unevenly sunned; edges foxed, half-title offset; a very good copy. With a contemporary inscription by the author.