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

St. Louis: University of Missouri-St. Louis Publications Office, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. St. Louis, University of Missouri-St. Louis Publications Office, 1978 (third printing)/ [1978]. Quarto, 56 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers foxed, and a little sunned about the spine; a very short light crease to the bottom corners (throughout); a very good copy. Exhibition catalogue, introduction by Jean S. Tucker.

London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1761. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1761. Octavo, xxviii, 316 pages. Contemporary full polished calf, all edges lightly dyed green; spine gilt-decorated, with a contrasting leather title-label; corners very slightly worn; front joint cracked, with the inner hinge lightly strengthened; endpapers and first and last few leaves foxed and discoloured around the margins by the leather (and a thin strip around the edges of the endpapers and the adjacent binder's blanks are stained light green by the treatment to the edges); scattered pale foxing elsewhere; overall an excellent copy.

Millicent: The Author, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Millicent, The Author, 2012. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers; a fine copy.

London: Methuen, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Methuen, 1965. Quarto, 23, 122 pages with 48 plates plus 122 full-page plates and endpaper maps. Cloth; extremities slightly bumped and rubbed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, creased, chipped and torn. With the ink ownership signature of John Strehlow on the first blank. In all, 122 tribes are 'represented by a single characteristic sculpture, displaying the essential formal qualities of the art of the tribe... So, with few exceptions (some of which are noted in this volume), the art of Africa consists of hundreds of discrete tribal universes, each of which had its own lines of evolution, deflected or enriched from time to time but not fundamentally altered by external influences' (dustwrapper blurb).

London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1977. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London, British Museum Publications Limited, 1977 (second edition)/ 1970. Octavo, [lxxix] pages with 80 illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; an excellent copy.

London: Collins, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. London, Collins, 1982. Quarto, xiv, 210 pages with 70 full-page plates, 35 in colour, and more than 50 illustrative photographs. Cloth; edges a trifle foxed; a near-fine copy with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. Edited by Bryce Holcombe.

Sydney: Academic Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sydney, Academic Press, 1983. Quarto; synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper very slightly creased.

Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Christchurch, Caxton Press, 1946. Octavo; colour pictorial card covers with flaps a little rubbed, sunned and browned; foot of the spine slightly torn with trifling loss; a very good copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. Lino-cuts by Robert Brett.

London: The Fairclough Family, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Fairclough Family, 1957. Octavo, xvi, 186 pages plus 13 full-page plates and a dedication (on Fairclough Family letterhead) mounted on the front pastedown. Gilt-decorated cloth; extremities very slightly rubbed; top edge a little sunned; an excellent copy. A history from the fourteenth century to the twentieth by sometime Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of London, Theodore Cardwell Barker (1923-2001); the book was published while he was Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics, before becoming the first Professor of Economic History at the University of Kent in 1964 (International Committee of Historical Sciences website).

Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, John Fairfax and Sons, 1941. Quarto, [viii], xx, 169 pages with 13 illustrations (by Adrian Feint) plus 2 plates and a colour frontispiece. Quarter calf and papered boards; edges slightly foxed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper sunned, creased, marked, torn and nibbled with a little loss (chiefly about the spine).

Kent Town: Avonmore Books, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2021. Small folio, 162 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour, including 76 maps). Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. 'This first volume in the history of the Sixth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), covers the period 1965-1970 when the battalion served on two twelve-month tours of Vietnam. It includes a background to the battalion's deployment and detailed information on both friendly and enemy weapons, units and tactics ... Overall, 6RAR established a deserved reputation for battlefield proficiency during its time in Vietnam, but at the cost of 69 killed and many more wounded, some very seriously' (rear cover blurb).

London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2002. Square quarto, 53, [41] pages with colour illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards lightly rubbed; price label to front pastedown; an excellent copy.

Sydney: Macmillan, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Macmillan, 2002. Octavo; papered boards slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; front inner hinge split but firm; a very good copy with the dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at the extremities.

London: Constable, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Constable, 1965. Octavo, x, 100 pages. Papered boards lightly bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little chipped a nd marked.

Pforzheim: Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. Pforzheim, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, 1991 (fifth edition)/ 1980. Small quarto, [approximately 120] pages describing 400 items with numerous illustrations (many in colour) from photographs by Günter Meyer. Colour-pictorial papered boards very lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. Text in English and German.

Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 1999. Quarto, 232 pages with 336 illustrations from photographs (161 in colour). Blind-stamped papered boards; extremities very slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (very slightly creased and rubbed). Text in English and German. Catalogue of the Moderne Collection in the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim.

Dublin: Parkside Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dublin, Parkside Press, 1949. Octavo, xvi, 480 pages (70 being advertisements). Cloth a little marked, bumped and sunned; a very good copy. With the contemporary ownership signature of [Dr] L[eslie] O.S. Poidevin and his annotations, a few years before he was appointed 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.

London: The Folio Society, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1974. Octavo, 128 pages with 68 illustrations (many in colour) from contemporary sources plus a tipped-in errata slip. Quarter gilt decorated papered boards and cloth; a near-fine copy in the very slightly worn slipcase.

Holdfast Bay: The Finlayson Book Committee, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Holdfast Bay, The Finlayson Book Committee, March 1987. Quarto, x, 124 pages with family trees and numerous illustrations (from photographs). Gilt-decorated card covers a little scuffed and rubbed; a very good copy. William and Helen Finlayson and their known descendants, 1987 being the 150th Anniversary of their arrival at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg), South Australia.

Holdfast Bay: The Finlayson Book Committee, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Holdfast Bay, The Finlayson Book Committee, March 1987. Quarto, x, 124 pages with family trees and numerous illustrations (from photographs). Gilt-decorated papered boards a little lightly scuffed; contemporary ownership signature; an excellent copy. William and Helen Finlayson and their known descendants, 1987 being the 150th Anniversary of their arrival at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg), South Australia.