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

Adelaide: Investigator Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. Octavo, 176 pages with a map and 3 plates. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author.

Adelaide: Investigator Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. Octavo, 176 pages with a map and 3 plates. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author.

Adelaide: Investigator Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. Octavo, 176 pages with a map and 3 plates. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Inscribed archly 'A rare unsigned copy, the property of Michael Abbot. 6 xi '83'. In our experience unsigned copies are indeed extremely uncommon.

Octavo (165 × 106 mm), comprising a plain dark grey card cover with the pictorial title (a gelatin silver photograph of original artwork) mounted on the front; tipped in near the hinge on the inside rear cover is the programme, another gelatin silver print (142 × 186 mm) of original calligraphic artwork, mounted as a centrespread; essentially in fine condition. A small inscription in red ink at the foot of the programme proper reads 'held at #16 Sqdn. near Tang' Sep '17'. 'Tang' is presumably Tangmere, 50 miles south-west of London, where the RFC founded a training aerodrome in 1917. Major Charles Frederick Algernon Portal (1893-1971) 'was promoted to temporary major in June 1917 and given command of No. 16 Squadron flying RE8 aircraft on the Western Front' ('Air of Authority. A History of RAF Organisation' website). He went on to become Marshal of the RAF Viscount Portal of Hungerford, and was a prominent advocate of strategic bombing in the Second World War.

Melbourne: J.J. Goubley, Government Printer [for the River Murray Commission], 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne, J.J. Goubley, Government Printer [for the River Murray Commission], 1946. Octavo, 32 pages with a map, a plan, 3 tables and 14 illustrations (4 full-page). Pictorial wrappers slightly rubbed; ink ownership signature; an excellent copy.

Murwillumbah: The Author, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Murwillumbah, The Author, 1992. Quarto; colour pictorial wrappers; an excellent copy. Publisher's order form loosely inserted.

Sorrento: The Author, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sorrento, The Author, 2007. Foolscap folio, [iv], viii, 480 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus a folding map; an errata slip is mounted on the inside surface of the front cover. Pictorial card covers a little creased and rubbed; gift inscription on the title page; a very good copy. The brief chronological history (pages iii-v) indicates that flying training commenced at Geraldton on 10 March 1941, and on 31 May 1945 'No 4 SFTS ceased to exist'.

St Leonards: Allen and Unwin/ Australian War Memorial, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. St Leonards, Allen and Unwin/ Australian War Memorial, 1995. Small quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The fourth volume in 'The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 1948-1975'.

[Rabaul]: Printed by Guinea Gold Print, 1946. Very Good. [Rabaul], Printed by Guinea Gold Print, 1946. A single sheet (210 × 335 mm), printed on both sides and folded twice to form a six-page leaflet (210 × 114 mm) with a two-colour pictorial front cover. Minor creases and foxing; in very good condition. Reading between the lines, it looks like a one-off post-war extra-curricular event for military personnel.

Melbourne: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne, J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. Foolscap folio, 6 pages (last blank). As issued (without wrappers); top left-hand corner a little creased, with a very short marginal tear below it; an excellent copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1907; one of 950 copies. Jean Danysz (1860-1928), microbiologist, 'spent much of his working life at the Institut Pasteur in France and isolated a "new" strain of Pasteurella which was thought to selectively kill off feral rabbits. He arrived in Australia in 1906 on the invitation of the Council of the Pastures Protection Board to set up trials of his biological agent. Danysz and his workers were given a sizeable area on Broughton Island (off the New South Wales coast) to carry out their… Read More

Adelaide: Government Printer, 1885. Very Good. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1885. Folio, 9 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound (now disbound); an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1885; only 570 copies printed. The paper reprints three letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1883, as well as an 1884 report from the NSW Government Veterinarian on rabbit and cattle disease in Tasmania.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 [first American edition] (first published in Australia the same year under the title 'Collected Poems'). Octavo, xii, 322 pages. Blind-stamped cloth; trifling blemish to the gutter of the outside rear hinge; an excellent copy with the unclipped dustwrapper lightly unevenly sunned. Inscribed and signed by the poet 'for Christopher [Pearson], upholder of civilisation, no less & seriously, with my best wishes. Les', and dated 17 February 1993. Christopher Pearson (1951-2013) was editor of The Adelaide Review, columnist for The Australian, speechwriter for John Howard ... a man of letters.

Katoomba: Social Science Press, 1998. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Katoomba, Social Science Press, 1998 (revised second edition)/ 1988. Octavo, xviii, 360 pages with numerous tables and illustrations. Colour-pictorial card covers; spine a little sunned; a very good copy.

North Branch: Specialty Press, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. North Branch, Specialty Press, [2000 and 2002]. Quarto, two volumes, 100 and 104 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers a trifle rubbed; essentially a fine set.

Melbourne: ACC Division of Christian Education, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne, ACC Division of Christian Education, [1972]. Quarto; stapled colour pictorial card covers; front cover slightly creased torn about the staples; covers slightly marked and rubbed; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is the prospectus for the book, and that of a related book. 'It was an unforgettable experience. Right from the start there was frank, blunt speaking'. The conference was organised by the Australian Council of Churches, Division of Christian Education.

[At Sea]: USAT 'Sea Barb', 1945. [At Sea], USAT 'Sea Barb', 1945. Foolscap folio, two issues, each one consisting of two loose sheets of processed typescript (rectos and versos printed). The first leaf of the first one has the bottom quarter torn away (but still present); all leaves show signs of use and age, but basically they are decent copies of rare and ephemeral printings. USAT [US Army Troop Transport] 'Sea Barb' was commissioned in December 1943; she was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre until October 1946. Between May and July 1945, she made trips from Townsville to Morotai, and from Brisbane to Balikpapan. The 14 April issue carries the news of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the 17 April issue reports on his burial. [2 items].

Studlfield: Train Hobby Publications, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Studlfield, Train Hobby Publications, 1992. Oblong quarto, 209-312 pages with 96 illustrations from photographs by Lindsay Crow. Colour-pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

Melbourne: Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Melbourne, Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc., 1994. Quarto, viii, 200 pages with numerous diagrams, maps and illustrations (from photographs). Papered boards; small piece (15 × 45 mm) clipped from the top corner of the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper a little creased. 'At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Rubicon forest was acknowledged as containing some of the finest stands of timber in the state of Victoria. Due to the rugged terrain, little could be done to exploit the timber until an efficient and economical means of transport could be provided. ... "Rails to Rubicon" tells the story of the sawmills and tramways of the Rubicon Forest' (from the blurb).

London: Ian Allan, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Ian Allan, 1966. Oblong folio, 228 pages with numerous illustrations (including 9 colour plates depicting carriage liveries). Cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and a trifle torn.

London: New Cavendish, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. London, New Cavendish, 1984. Quarto, 128 pages with numerous plates (many in colour). Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy.