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

London: Chaucer Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London, Chaucer Press, 2003. Quarto; gilt-decorated papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper.

Birmingham: D. Mason & Sons Limited, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Birmingham, D. Mason & Sons Limited, [circa 1890s?]. Quarto, [vi], 12 (index), [approximately] 147 pages with thousands of illustrations (many printed in colour). More accurately, apart from the preliminaries, many of the leaves are printed one side only (mainly the recto); there is an additional illustrated page 22A but no page 104; there are six additional unnumbered leaves of text, and unnumbered pages of text on the verso of 10 illustrations; there are 140 pages of illustrations, of which 115 are printed with some colour (and many of them are simply stunning). Gilt-pictorial dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, all edges dyed red; cloth a little flecked and marked, with a few light damp stains to the rear cover (with minimal associated cockling to the leading margin of the last 20 or so leaves); edges slightly marked; title page and last page offset; rear cover blemishes notwithstanding,… Read More

Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty Ltd, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Sotheby's Australia Pty Ltd, 1988. Quarto, [156] pages with 123 colour illustrations plus endpaper illustrations. Cloth; an excellent copy with the very slightly bumped and rubbed dustwrapper. 'The collection was first catalogued in 1983 ... Sotheby's gratefully acknowledges the kind permission of The National Trust of Australia (NSW) to republish the catalogue entries which have been revised and updated' (from the Foreword by Robert Bleakley).

Bowen Hills: Boolarong, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bowen Hills, Boolarong, 1986. Quarto, xiv, 209 pages with numerous illustrations. Pictorial papered boards a little scuffed; an excellent copy. Signed by the author on the title page.

Prospect]: Dhama Poetry Society, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Prospect], Dhama Poetry Society, [February 1975]. Small quarto; stapled card covers; [28 pages plus (iv), covers] of poetry with a few illustrations. Cover title: All statments within this frame I Love You, I Hate You are untrue'. Poets include the editors and others.

Concord: Draper-Maynard Company, 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Concord, Draper-Maynard Company, 1932. Octavo, 72 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Two-colour pictorial wrappers a trifle marked, and slightly chipped at the head and foot of the spine; front cover a little creased; an excellent copy. A catalogue of sporting goods, primarily baseball and golf, but with several pages devoted to tennis and soccer.

Portland: Timber Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Portland, Timber Press, 2013. Small quarto, 220 pages with numerous pages of colour illustrations from photographs by Jo Whitworth. Papered boards; joints a little foxed; a very good copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Melbourne: Printing Industry Craftsmen of Australia, 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne, Printing Industry Craftsmen of Australia, 1939. Duodecimo, [vii] pages. Overlapping saddle-stitched wrappers; front cover a little nibbled; a very good copy. One of only 250 copies.

Canberra: Government Printer, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Canberra, Government Printer, 1930. Octavo, 204 pages with numerous tables plus a map ('showing Distribution of Dairy Cattle') and 9 pages of graphs and diagrams. Papered boards a little unevenly sunned; head of the spine a little bumped (with a very short split, not affecting the binding); covers lightly scuffed; endpapers offset; ownership signature; a very good copy. An accurate, detailed snapshot of dairy farm production in the late 1920s.

Kilkenny: Moore Books SA, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kilkenny, Moore Books SA, 2012. Octavo, 36 pages plus text on the covers. Saddle-stapled pictorial card covers; previous owner's acquisition details on the title page; an excellent copy. The script for a one-woman play adapted from the writings of Daisy Bates, first produced in this version at the Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, in 2012.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978 (first thus). Quarto, 296 pages with 'more than 140 illustrations, including 124 in full color'. Colour-pictorial papered boards; plain rear cover a little foxed; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed embossed colour-pictorial gold foil dustwrapper. 'No vin ordinaire, this book combines the great Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacinto Dali and the world's greatest wines to produce a refreshing blend of art, fun and information. The illustrations are unique in their variety and visual humor. Among the numerous reproductions of Dali's paintings and drawings are several that he created expressly for this book. Then he has taken late-nineteenth-century French academic works and fifteenth-century miniatures depicting the wine-making process and altered them, giving them his own inimitable stamp. The results are unexpected, outrageous, and amusing' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

[Rio de Janeiro]: Confraria Bibliófila Brasileira 'Cattleya Alba', 1944. Very Good. [Rio de Janeiro], Confraria Bibliófila Brasileira 'Cattleya Alba', [1944] (first thus). Octavo, [102] French-fold pages printed on silk (top and bottom edges pinked), with 52 full-page hand-coloured illustrations by Martha Pawlowna Schidrowitz. Original padded silk boards lettered on the spine and front cover (along with a large hand-coloured illustration); scattered foxing throughout; covers lightly soiled and rubbed; minimal signs of use and age; an excellent copy in the original padded silk-covered box (soiled and a little worn, with the joint to the lid slightly loose). Number 48 of only 200 copies of this deluxe privately printed edition printed on undyed silk, signed by the illustrator Martha Pawlowna Schidrowitz and the translator Álvaro Moreyra. The 52 hand-coloured illustrations, based on the 52 cards in a deck, feature characters from the book and Russian landmarks. This is the second publication by the… Read More

Melbourne: Macmillan, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Melbourne, Macmillan, 2001. Quarto, 240 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations (many in colour). Decorated papered boards with the dustwrapper; a mint copy. With a plate signed by the author (from the book launch) mounted on the flyleaf.

Stockholm: Silander and Fromholtz, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stockholm, Silander and Fromholtz, 1996 [first English edition]. Quarto; cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very lightly bumped about the bottom edge. Preface by Pontus Hultén.

Circular Quay: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Circular Quay, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. Quarto, 87 pages with a colour map and numerous colour illustrations (46 full-page). Colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. A catalogue for an exhibition of the same name held at the MCA from December 2002 to March 2003. Loosely inserted is the invitation (a colour-pictorial bifolium) to Napangardi's exhibition of new paintings held in November 2003.

London: John Marshall, 1819. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London, John Marshall, 1819. Duodecimo, [16] leaves, each printed one side only, with hand-coloured engraved title vignette and 15 half-page hand-coloured engraved illustrations. Original saddle-sewn stiffened orange wrappers, with an engraved and hand-coloured title cartouche on the front cover (with variant lettering 'The Dandie's Ball'); covers a little marked and rubbed, with minor wear along the spine; scattered light foxing and some light stains internally; unobtrusive pencilling to the blank faces of two leaves; nevertheless, a very good copy of an ephemeral publication. The first edition of this charming Regency children's book, with illustrations after Robert Cruikshank. Charles Dickens and George Sala would later reminisce: 'We date from the time of the Prince Regent, and remember picture-books about dandies - satires upon that eminent personage himself, possibly - but we never knew it.... The picture-book that seems to have… Read More

London: The Council for British Archaeology, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Council for British Archaeology, 1991. Quarto, two volumes, x, 276 pages and viii, 277-493 pages with numerous illustrations, tables, plans and folding maps plus two loosely inserted large folding maps and 31 microfiche in two endpockets. Colour pictorial papered boards; extremities slightly bumped; an excellent set. With the small colour pictorial ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM on the front pastedown of each volume. Both volumes comprise the Council for British Archaeology Research Report No. 73. [2 items].

Auckland: School of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts, University of Auckland, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts, University of Auckland, 2015. Octavo, 234 pages. Colour-pictorial card covers; extremities very slightly bumped and rubbed; an excellent copy. 'Dr Tom Fookes (1943-2013) 'was one of the few New Zealanders whose career encompassed the full gamut of planning roles; practitioner, policy analyst, researcher, teacher, mentor and public advocate' (New Zealand Planning Institute website).

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2012. Quarto; silver-lettered pictorial papered boards; a fine copy.

Rungsted: Dannebrog Rederi AS, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rungsted, Dannebrog Rederi AS, 1993. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards lightly rubbed; private library number inscribed at the corner of the title-page; an excellent copy.