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

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967 (first English edition). Octavo, 104 pages. Papered boards; ownership name struck through; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper slightly rubbed and marked at the edges.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960 (first English edition)/ 1935. Octavo, 208 pages. Black papered boards lettered in silver on the spine, top edge dyed red; extremities a trifle bumped; top edge slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the unclipped dustwrapper lightly rubbed and with a few tiny closed tears. 'Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author'; the three-page foreword by the author is new to this edition.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938 (first thus). Octavo, 292 pages. Orange cloth lettered and decorated in black on the spine; tiny bump to the front top and rear bottom edge of the boards; leading edge uncut; endpapers a little offset; essentially a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, with slight loss to the ends of the spine. Three variant bindings exist - green, orange and brown - apparently in that order of issue. The author's first book to be published in the USA; 'A different version of this novel has been published in England under the title "Camera Obscura" (verso of the title page). The story behind this turn of events is intriguing. 'At the age of thirty-one, living as a penniless exile in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov composed, in Russian, a novel called "Camera Obscura," which he published serially in an émigré journal in 1930. Five years later, the book was translated into… Read More

Bangkok: Archaeology Division, Fine Arts Department, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Bangkok, Archaeology Division, Fine Arts Department, 1982. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers a little bumped, rubbed and sunned. In English and Thai. Inscribed and signed by the editor, Seehawat Naenna.

London: Victor Gollancz/ Peter Crawley, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. London, Victor Gollancz/ Peter Crawley, 1985. Quarto; papered boards; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.

Padua: Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Padua, Umberto Allemandi & Co., 2008. Folio, 343 pages with hundreds of illustrations (many in colour). Decorated card covers slightly creased: an excellent copy. The catalogue to accompany the exhibition held between 4 April 2008 and 3 August 2008. Text in English and Italian.

Melbourne: The Southern Cross Hotel, 1960. Very Good. Melbourne, The Southern Cross Hotel, [1960s]. Small foolscap; colour pictorial card folded once; spine a little rubbed and splitting at the foot; even so, an excellent copy. Quite apart from the hotel's boast of being 'Australia's Finest Hotel', this Coolibah Coffee Shop menu makes a special feature of their 'Steak Namatjira', 'a thin minute steak grilled to perfection and smothered in a tantalising Arnhem Land Sauce'. If that were not evidence of both Namatjira's enormous and continuing broad-based popularity at the time (he was commemorated on a postage stamp in 1968), the dish must also have proved popular, because there is a proviso; 'Sorry we can't disclose recipe'. A card advertising 'Prime Roast Christmas Turkey and Ham with Cranberry Sauce' is stapled to the recto of the rear cover, dating the month of publication at least; Christmas.

Melbourne: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. Octavo, 158 pages with a double-page map plus 16 pages of plates and a colour frontispiece. Papered boards; extremities slightly bumped; top edge slightly foxed; endpapers lightly tanned; ink ownership signature; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and torn. 'This is the tragic story of the talented tribesman whose paintings of Central Australia brought him fame and fortune. Here is told the story of his struggle for recognition and his endeavour to fulful his obligations under tribal laws and to white society' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

Melbourne: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Melbourne, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. Octavo, 158 pages with a double-page map plus 16 pages of plates and a colour frontispiece. Papered boards very slightly rubbed and bumped; top edge slightly foxed; endpapers and a few leaves a little foxed; pencilled ownership signature; a very good copy with the dustwrapper very slightly worn. 'This is the tragic story of the talented tribesman whose paintings of Central Australia brought him fame and fortune. Here is told the story of his struggle for recognition and his endeavour to fulful his obligations under tribal laws and to white society' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia, 1992 [first and only edition]. Quarto, xxii, 350 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations plus 32 pages of colour plates (totalling 50 illustrations, mostly from paintings). Colour-pictorial card covers; rear cover a trifle rubbed; a fine copy. 'Twelve contributors - anthropologists, historians, art critics and collectors - review the history and stylistic developments of the Hermannsburg watercolourists' (rear cover blurb).

Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, 216 pages extensively illustrated in colour. Papered boards lightly bumped at the head of the spine; faint streak to an unprinted area of page 193 (presumably a production flaw); an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper a trifle creased. The introduction is by Nicolas Rothwell; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi. 'This book features hundreds of paintings by the distinguished Alice Springs based artist known as Mrs Bennett. A special feature of the publication is the series of photographs showing Mrs Bennett's methods of production - with the various applications of paint and its distribution over the canvas that lead to her readily recognisable personal style. This is a lavishly illustrated account of Mrs Bennett's life and work and, as such, provides another important monograph dedicated to the achievements of individual Indigenous artists'… Read More

London: The Authors, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Authors, 1974. 43x29cm, (iv), 332 pages with plates (some in colour). Synthetic cloth slightly bumped and rubbed; an excellent copy.

San Francisco: Harper Collins Publisherrs, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. San Francisco, Harper Collins Publisherrs, 1994 (first edition). Octavo, xxvi, 193 pages with numerous illustrations plus 8 full-page colour plates of Warlpiri art. Quarter cloth and papered boards; a fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine. Provenance: With the ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (28 April 1997, Canberra). Narratives in Warlpiri; some Jukurrpa stories, others of historical events or personal experiences; text in Warlpiri and English.

San Francisco: Harper Collins Publisherrs, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. San Francisco, Harper Collins Publisherrs, 1994 (first edition). Octavo, xxvi, 193 pages with numerous illustrations plus 8 full-page colour plates of Warlpiri art. Quarter cloth and papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and sunned. Narratives in Warlpiri; some Jukurrpa stories, others of historical events or personal experiences; text in Warlpiri and English.

Yuendumu: Warlpiri Literature Production Centre Inc, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Yuendumu, Warlpiri Literature Production Centre Inc., 1983. Oblong quarto, 25 pages with numerous full-page illustrations from photographs. Stapled pictorial card covers; a near-fine copy. Text in Warlpiri and English. In the Warlpiri Culture series.

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: T. & W. Boone, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. London, T. & W. Boone, 1835. Octavo, xxxii, 268, [4] (publisher's advertisements) pages. Original green watered cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine; cloth a little scuffed and marked, with minor wear to the extremities; spine a little sunned, with an old repair in green cloth to the foot of the rear joint and the spine proper; top edge a little darkened, leading edge a little foxed; endpapers slightly marked, offset and foxed, with occasional light foxing elsewhere; inner hinges cracked but firm (the text block appears to have been loose at some stage, and it has been reinserted inexpertly, resulting in the leading edges of the first half of the book, in two discrete groups of gatherings, being proud of the remainder); notwithstanding, a very decent copy. The front flyleaf is inscribed in ink 'To The Honble Mrs Byng from her old and very sincere friend The Author. Portsmouth 19 June 1835'. A Byng family armorial bookplate ('Tuebor',… Read More

Very Good. Folio (314 × 201 mm), one page of printed text with manuscript insertions, on 'Ministere de l'Instruction publique et des Cultes' letterhead, 10 May 1856. The lengthy decree is written in a neat secretarial hand; two folds, a few creases and short sealed tears at the top and bottom edges; slight traces of prior mounting on the verso; in very good condition. The decree confirms the appointment of Georges Frédéric Fallot as Lutheran pastor in the parish of Dampierre-les-Bois near Audincourt, Doubs. It is countersigned by Hippolyte Fortoul, Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des Cultes. The decree was apparently cancelled soon after it was issued; it is crossed out, with the word 'annulé' added in ink in the left-hand margin, and a pencilled cross through the blank registration stamp. Napoleon III, 'the nephew of Napoleon I, was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848,… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1970. Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1970 ('re-issued')/ 1958 (first UK edition). Octavo, 247 pages. Papered boards; edges very lightly marked; ownership signature and a small light mark to the head of the half-title; a near-fine copy with the lightly creased price-clipped dustwrapper. Personally inscribed to the original owner 'with best wishes | R.K. Narayan | Adelaide 10th March 1974'.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998 [first edition]. Octavo, 459, [2] pages plus 8 pages of plates. Quarter contrasting papered boards a trifle rubbed; ownership initials on the front pastedown and a two-line note on the rear flyleaf; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a trifle rubbed and creased. A biography of John Nash, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician.