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

Crows Nest: IMS Publishing, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Crows Nest, IMS Publishing, 1989. Quarto, Approximately 750 pages plus two laminated reference cards attached with ribbon. Colour pictorial card covers a little bumped, marked and rubbed; one 'Notes' page at the rear a little marked; a very good copy. Comprehensive; includes indexes for Manufacturers and Distributors, Agencies, Brand Names and Products.

London: Elm Tree Books, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London, Elm Tree Books, 1988 (sixth printing)/ 1988. Quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

London: The Folio Society, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 1980 (first thus). Octavo, 268 pages with a frontispiece and illustrations from wood engravings by Joan Freeman plus endpaper maps. Cloth; spine a little sunned; small mark on the contents page; an excellent copy in the slipcase (slightly sunned about the opening and with one short split). Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. Introduction by Leslie Norris.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Octavo, iv, 52 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth very slightly rubbed; one corner a trifle bumped; small surface tears to the front pastedown (possibly due to a tiny surfeit of glue in the production process); an excellent copy. Presentation copy. To Trevor Alfred Ridley ('Jim') Dinning (1919-2003), warmly inscribed, 'In appreciation of Trevor Dinning's mastery in the field of Brain & Spinal Cord Surgery'; dated (2 December 1966) and signed by the author (and amending one of his qualifications from FRFPS to FRCS). Also with the ownership chop and stamp of Dinning on the front free endpaper. Dinning was 'chief architect of neurosurgical services in South Australia and the creator of a very successful research foundation' on the front flyleaf. Duguid's memoir of Macewen, the former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University by one of his students (the well-known 'Doctor among the… Read More

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Octavo, iv, 52 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth slightly flecked; endpapers expertly renewed; an excellent copy. A memoir of Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, by one of his students (the well-known 'Doctor among the Aborigines'). The author has inscribed and signed the title page, and amended one of his qualifications (from FRFPS to FRCS). A short autograph note on his letterhead, dated 12 October 1971, is loosely inserted: 'I hope this my first book will give you some pleasure. It was written from my heart'. A wonderful head-and-shoulders portrait photograph (180 × 125 mm) of Dr Charles Duguid (1884-1986) is also loosely inserted. (Dr Duguid was 87 when he wrote the short letter, so he can be forgiven for not remembering that more than half a century earlier he had pseudonymously published 'The Desert Trail. With the Light Horse… Read More

New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, The New York Academy of Sciences, 1978. Octavo, [i] (verso of the front flyleaf), xiv, 348 pages with numerous illustrations (including a colour frontispiece). Synthetic cloth; a few trifling annotations (a date in ink on the title page, and some light marginal pencilling to a handful of pages in the first article); an excellent copy. Volume 314 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Loftus: Australian Military History Publications, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Loftus, Australian Military History Publications, 2007. Octavo, xxviii, 326 pages with numerous illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards sunned about the spine; a very good copy.

[Adelaide: The Author], 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. [Adelaide, The Author], 1987. Oblong quarto, [v], 166 pages with numerous illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. One of only 250 numbered copies. Members of the family lived for lengthy periods at Oodnadatta and Coober Pedy, and there are sizable well-illustrated sections on these two isolated settlements (10 pages and 5 pages respectively). Brief details are supplied of the descendants of Hans Hamilton Mack, the only known brother of John Hamilton Mack. The prolific authors Louise and Amy Mack were two of his daughters; Nancy Phelan was a grand-daughter.

Canterbury: Mallon, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Canterbury, Mallon, 1999/ 1993. Folio; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in the fine dustwrapper.

Adelaide: RGSSA, 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, RGSSA, 1921. Octavo, [15] pages with 2 maps and 6 plates (after photographs by Hurley, Mawson and Blake). Original wrappers slightly discoloured; a fine copy. This issue also contains the annual address of the President, the Honorable John LEWIS (67 pages, comprising a detailed account of the voyage of Flinders, concentrating on South Australia west of Port Lincoln); and NEWLAND, Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (22 pages).

[Adelaide]: The Author, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Adelaide], The Author, 1988. Quarto, 193 pages with maps and numerous illustrations (from photographs) plus endpaper illustrations. Gilt-pictorial synthetic cloth a little bumped at the bottom corners; an excellent copy.

London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, The Fanfrolico Press, [1929]. Octavo, 189 pages plus a frontispiece gravure by the author. Gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt; scattered foxing (a little heavier near the boards); a very good copy with the dustwrapper marked and a little used. The frontispiece illustration is reproduced on the front panel of the dustwrapper, which carries the subtitle 'A Novel in Dialogue form'.

Cairns: Yalga-Binbi Institute for Community Development (and others), 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cairns, Yalga-Binbi Institute for Community Development (and others), 1995. Oblong quarto, 48 pages with numerous illustrations (some in colour). Colour-pictorial saddle-stapled card covers slightly cockled, and with a few other signs of use and age; a very good copy. Exhibition catalogue.

London: British Museum Publications/ The University of Durham Publications Board, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, British Museum Publications/ The University of Durham Publications Board, 1988. Quarto, xvi, 636 pages with 2 maps, 235 figures, 327 tables and 396 illustrations. Pictorial papered boards; extremities slightly bumped; an excellent copy in the slightly creased dustwrapper. Includes 'a detailed inventory of 169 artifacts ... Until recently the Wola in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea lived in self-sufficient isolation, satisfying their own material needs using a stone technology. This book is a thorough and comprehensive study of their material culture, covering all of the known moveable property manufactured there' (dustwrapper blurb).

Washington: National Museum of Art, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, National Museum of Art, 1990. Quarto; cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little lightly scuffed and creased. Exhibition catalogue.

London: Heinemann, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Heinemann, 1963 (first UK edition)/ 1963. Octavo, [vi], 232 pages. Green papered boards lettered in gilt on the spine; spine lightly sunned, creased and slightly bumped at the head; edges very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the unclipped dustwrapper a little sunned and marked on the spine, and a little creased and rubbed with a few tiny tears. The twenty-eighth Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte detective novel, published the same year by Doubleday/ Crime Club as 'The Body at Madman's Bend'. Dustwrapper by Quinton F. Davis.

Ringwood: Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ringwood, Viking, 2001 (second impression). Square quarto, [viii], 342 pages with numerous colour illustrations from photographs by Simon Griffiths. Colour pictorial papered boards; a few small indentations to the front cover; an excellent copy with slightly scuffed dustwrapper.

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1981 (first thus). Octavo, xviii, 724 pages with numerous illustrations by Gonzalo Fonseca. Gilt-decorated quarter leather and cloth; all edges gilt; a fine copy. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter.

London: The Folio Society, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 2000 (first thus). Octavo, xvi, 697 pages plus 11 full-page colour plates by Leonard Rosoman. Colour-pictorial cloth; an excellent copy in the near-fine slipcase. Translation from the German by John E. Woods. Introduction by Michael Wood; foreword by the author.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1963 ('New edition')/ 1918. Quarto, 171 pages with numerous illustrations plus an additional colour-pictorial title page (all from original artwork by the author; the pictorial title page is a replica of that in the first edition). Red cloth slightly rubbed and bumped; a few unobtrusive marks internally; an excellent copy with the colour-pictorial dustwrapper (featuring the main illustration from the pictorial title page) a trifle worn at the extremities. Norman Lindsay has added to the front flyleaf a charming original pencil drawing of Bunyip Bluegum, and a signed inscription - 'A Slice of Pudden' for [Carl Strehlow] from Norman Lindsay' (overall dimensions 120 × 115 mm). The recipient was the son of the linguist Professor Theodor George Henry Strehlow and his second wife Kathleen. Carl was born in early 1973, more than three years after Norman Lindsay's death in November 1969; his name has been inserted… Read More