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

Finschhafen: Lutheran Mission, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Finschhafen, Lutheran Mission, 1931. Octavo, three volumes bound as one, viii, 128 pages; viii, 108 pages (last leaf blank); and iv, 52 pages with 19 illustrations. Contemporary half cloth and marbled papered boards; Lutheran Mission, Finschhafen rubber-stamp on the first page; in excellent condition (and all three items are here bound without covers, if they were indeed issued with them). The first two books are on geography (one on Melanesia and Papua, the other on the rest of the world); the third book is on health studies.

[New York]: T.J. Maloney ('A U.S. Camera Book'), 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [New York], T.J. Maloney ('A U.S. Camera Book'), 1947. Large quarto, 112 pages, being predominantly full-page plates (from photographs by Morris Rosenfeld). Cream 'sail-cloth' with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth very lightly marked and rubbed; free endpapers slightly marked and offset; an excellent copy. This copy is signed in ink by the photographer at the foot of the frontispiece. This is possibly one of a deluxe issue; the standard edition (unsigned) is bound in blue cloth with white lettering.

New York: International Center of Photography, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. New York, International Center of Photography, 1979. Quarto, 144 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs (several in colour). Pictorial card covers a little foxed, rubbed and creased; a very good copy. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the International Center of Photography in April-May 1979.

Hong Kong: Overseas Archaeological Exhibition Corporation/ Woods Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hong Kong, Overseas Archaeological Exhibition Corporation/ Woods Publishing Company, 1988. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers slightly bumped, rubbed and torn with slight surface loss; a very good copy. With a relevant presentation inscription dated (1 September 1991).

Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia, 1989. Oblong quarto, [vi], 122 pages with over one hundred illustrations from photographs (many full-page). Pictorial card covers unevenly sunned and a little rubbed; a very good copy.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1995. Square quarto, [vi], 102 pages with dozens of illustrations from photographs (many full-page) by William Yang. Papered boards very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1999. Quarto, 584 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Cloth; top corners slightly bumped; covers slightly marked; front endpapers a little stained (with a tiny associated mark to the adjacent half-title); a very good copy with the excellent dustwrapper. 'This beautiful book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from 19 September 1999 to 2 January 2000 that will then travel to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco' (from the blurb).

Hong Kong: Leisure & Cultural Services Department/ Beijing Bureau of Cultural Relics/ Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hong Kong, Leisure & Cultural Services Department/ Beijing Bureau of Cultural Relics/ Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology, 2001. Quarto, 108 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour pictorial wrappers very slightly marked; an excellent copy. Exhibition catalogue comprising 'costumes, ornaments, woven and wax-resist fabrics, and embroideries of 56 ethnic peoples' (introduction).

Original gelatin silver prints (uniformly 122 × 165 mm, but three have been trimmed a little), all captioned in ink on the verso (four are dated 1905). All prints are unmounted as produced; two have a short tear to one edge, one of these (and one other) have a small piece missing from one or two corners; one is a little creased; two are a little marked; overall, the condition is excellent. Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges, in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges, Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone police station was erected in 1873, staffed by two police troopers who had been placed there a year earlier to keep order and to distribute rations to Aboriginal people who were increasingly attracted to Yardea.... After the Yardea police were withdrawn in 1885 the building served as a post-office and telegraph station, and… Read More

Melbourne: George Robertson, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne, George Robertson, 1892. Octavo, x, 154 pages. Cloth slightly rubbed and bumped and a little flecked on the spine; edges slightly browned; endpapers offset; a very good copy. With the amorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide (and with his pencilled note on the flyleaf).

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1946. Octavo, [ii], viii, 188 pages plus frontispiece plate. Cloth; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper a little sunned, marked, creased and slightly torn. The author passed away before completing further volumes; only this volume was published. With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, and a quotation inscribed by him on the title-page.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975 (second edition)/ 1959. Quarto; cloth lightly rubbed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little mottled and slightly creased and torn. 'Dr Yates describes how the tapestries arose out of Catherine de' Medici's marvellous series of festivals at the court of the Valois in the sixteenth century which were intended to bring together hostile religious factions in an attempt at 'politique' conciliation. The festivals were, however, constantly interrupted by renewd outbreaks of the French wars of religion; indeed, the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew began during a festival'.

Madras: Diocesan Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Madras, Diocesan Press, [1952]. Octavo, xiv, 94 pages with several tables plus 10 plates and two folding diagrams. Cloth lightly rubbed and slightly discoloured about the spine; endpapers offset; a very good copy. Warmly inscribed and dated (September 1954) by the author to 'Les'; Dr Leslie O.S. Poidevin, then Director of Obstetrics at the University of Adelaide. Some thirty years later Poidevin was to author several medical memoirs, including his time as a Japanese POW in WW2.

North Brighton: RailBooks ARHS, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. North Brighton, RailBooks ARHS, 2004. Folio, viii, 223 pages with numerous illustrations (most from photographs). Colour-pictorial papered boards; three leaves slightly creased at the top corner; an excellent copy.

Coffs Harbour: Coffs Harbour City Council/ The Author, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Coffs Harbour, Coffs Harbour City Council/ The Author, 1990. Quarto; coloured pictorial papered boards very slightly rubbed and lightly marked; an excellent copy.

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1971 (facsimile)/ 1943. Octavo; quarter-oatmeal cloth and grey papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent glassine dustwrapper (slightly rubbed, creased and torn with very slight loss). The original 1943 consisted of only 250 copies.

Shannon: Irish University Press for T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Shannon, Irish University Press for T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970/ October 1943. Octavo; quarter cloth and papered boards; leading edge a little foxed; flyleaf with a tiny tear to one edge with very slight loss (possibly a publishing flaw); an excellent copy with the excellent slightly marked and creased original glassine dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a postcard dated (20 October 1985), inscribed to Tim Mares and signed by Colin and Cynthia Horne.

London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). Small quarto, xxx, 228 pages plus 11 full-page colour plates from paintings by Jack B. Yeats. Blind-stamped cloth; spine faintly sunned; a near-fine copy in the lightly sunned slipcase.

London: Macmillan, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Macmillan, 1988. Octavo, xviii, 318 pages plus 19 full-page plates. Papered boards slightly rubbed; top edge very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little scuffed and unevenly sunned. '"Yeats Annual" is the established research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of "the greatest poet in the English tongue of this century" ... The focus in this sixth number is on Yeats at work on various manuscripts, and on his tours of America. Two of his poems are published from manuscript for the first time.' The longest of the eight major articles publishes for the first time the complete surviving archive of letters to Yeats from Olivia Shakespear, edited by John Harwood (at the time on the staff at Flinders University in South Australia).

London: Macmillan, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Macmillan, 1962. Octavo; cloth very slightly rubbed and bumped; ownership details; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed, sunned, creased and nibbled with slight surface loss.