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

London: Conway Maritime Press/ Brassey's, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London, Conway Maritime Press/ Brassey's, 1997 [first thus]/ 1885. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

London: A. Zwemmer, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London, A. Zwemmer, 1981. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1954. Small octavo; lettered cloth slightly flecked; spine a little darkened; an excellent copy. A partial family history. Of some Glenelg and Mount Gambier interest.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Small quarto, x, 273 pages with a table, 2 maps and 24 illustrations from photographs. Papered boards a little rubbed and bumped; publisher's review copy label to the front free endpaper; a very good copy with the dustwrapper lightly rubbed, creased and sunned.

Blackheath: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Blackheath, Brandl and Schlesinger, 2003. Octavo; laminated pictorial card covers; pencilled acquisition note on title page; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author, 'For Alan Brissenden, with best wishes, Geoff Page, 2004'.

London: Angus and Robertson, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London, Angus and Robertson, 1986. Octavo; laminated pictorial card covers sunned on the spine; slightly rubbed at the corners; a very good copy. Inscribed and signed by the author, 'For Alan Brissenden, with best wishes, Geoff Page 1991'.

Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1986. Quarto, [x], 310 pages with numerous illustrations plus a tipped-in list of the Book Committee and financial donors to the project. Colour pictorial card covers creased and a little worn; ownership details on the half-title; a few signs of use and age; a decent copy. '[This] entertaining collection of historial and anecdotal stories embraces the lives and achievements of women in many areas, including community service, education and sport, to name a few' (from the blurb). Loosely inserted are some related ephemera including a previous owner's invitation to the Triennial Conference of the National Council of Women in Australia, 1988, and a congratulatory not on her receiving the OAM.

Adelaide: South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide, South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service, 1983. Quarto, [viii], 576, [11] pages with numerous plates. Gilt-decorated cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1975. Quarto, [xii], 339 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; extremities slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly browned, bumped (with two tiny tears) and marked. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.

Victor Harbor: District Council of Victor Harbor, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Victor Harbor, District Council of Victor Harbor, 1987. Quarto, 256 pages with endpaper maps and over 250 illustrations (90 in colour). Papered boards; rear cover slightly bowed; edges lightly foxed; a very good copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, Rigby, 1975. Quarto, [xii], 339 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned and creased.

New York: Abrams, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, Abrams, 1995. Folio; blind-stamped cloth; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed and bumped duastwrapper.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. London, Thames and Hudson, 1985/ 1984 (first paperback edition)/ 1983. Quarto, 120 pages with 94 illustrations from photographs by Tim Page (80 in colour). Colour-pictorial card covers; top front corner very slightly creased; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed in ink by Tim Page on the half-title. 'The legendary photographer's classic book on Vietnam' (cover), with an introduction by William Shawcross.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 (first edition). Octavo; cloth; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper lightly tanned on the rear panel, and the laminate lifting a little on the front panel. 'From the African veldt to New Zealand's Southern Alps to Alaska's glacier country ...'.

London: Constable and Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Constable and Company, 1919. Quarto, xvi, 492 pages plus 7 maps. Green cloth a little rubbed and bumped with minor bubbling; rear cover slightly scuffed, marked and scratched; a tiny spot of wear to a high spot on the front outer hinge; endpapers slightly marked; a very good copy. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent.

Sydney: Library of Australian History in association with National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Sydney, Library of Australian History in association with National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1983 (first thus). Octavo, xxx, 107 pages with an illustrated frontispiece. Papered boards; ink ownership signature on front free endpaper; otherwise a fine copy in the excellent dustwrapper (very slightly creased). 'This is the first edition of a diary kept by Daniel Paine on his voyage to Sydney in the Reliance in 1795, during his sojourn in the new settlement and his return to England via Manila and China' (from the blurb).

London: Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. London, Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1817 and 1819 [mainly first editions thus]. Octavo, [vi] pages (an engraved frontispiece after Romney's famous portrait, dated 1819; the cumulative title leaf, dated 1817; and the contents leaf), plus seven separately paginated (and separately published) pamphlets bound together as issued: 'Case of the Officers of Excise' (16 pages); 'Common Sense' (56 pages); 'American Crisis ([ii], 196, [2] (integral blank) pages); 'Public Good' (36 pages (last blank) with 2 diagrams); 'Letter to the Abbe Raynal' (60 (last blank), iv (appendix, last blank) pages); 'Dissertations on Government' (54 pages); and 'Prospects of the Rubicon' (34 pages). Original plain papered boards with the original paper title-label on the spine, all edges uncut; minor loss to the head and foot of the spine; front joint neatly reinforced; offsetting to the endpapers, frontispiece and title page, with a tear to the front flyleaf expertly… Read More

[Adelaide]: Cooper and Son, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. [Adelaide], Cooper and Son, 1987. Quarto, viii, 112 pages with numerous illustrations plus family tree endpapers. Gilt-decorated synthetic leather; leaves lightly browned at the edges; an excellent copy with the lightly scuffed glassine dustwrapper with a very short closed tear to the head of the spine. With a few related brochures and newspaper clippings loosely inserted.

[Adelaide]: Cooper and Son, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. [Adelaide], Cooper and Son, 1987. Quarto, viii, 112 pages with numerous illustrations plus family tree endpapers. Gilt-decorated synthetic leather; a fine copy with the transparent acetate dustwrapper a little scuffed and torn. Signed by Bill and Max Cooper.

Melbourne: T. Harwood (Fergusson and Moore, Printers), 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne, T. Harwood (Fergusson and Moore, Printers), 1864. Octavo, xxiv, 118 pages with numerous in-text illustrations and a pictorial title-page plus a chromolithographic frontispiece and 10 numbered lithographs bound in at the rear (the third one is number 2A, the last three are folding). Original purple patterned cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with the sides extensively decorated in blind; cloth lightly marked and flecked, discoloured around the edges, sunned on the spine, and lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; early ownership details (1876) in German; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. 'It is the object of the present work to direct the attention of those who feel interested in the question - "Which was the primitive alphabet of man?" - to a discovery made by the author in the year 1848.... he perceived the striking similarity between some of the early Greek letters… Read More