Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

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Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, established in Adelaide, South Australia, in March 1976, is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).

Our retail outlet is in the heart of Adelaide, opposite the State Library of South Australia. We deal in quality out-of-print and antiquarian books, as well as vintage photographs, manuscripts and autographs.

Contact Information
Phone: +61 8 8223 1111
Website: http://www.treloars.com
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196 North Terrace Adelaide, 5000 Australia Get Directions

Store Hours

Weekdays 10am - 5:30pm
Saturdays by appointment

Highlights
Ivor's Art Review... An Adelaide Commentary on Contemporary Art Affairs
$1100
Adelaide, Ivor Francis, 1956 to 1960. A near-complete run of this scarce journal, lacking only Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 3. Quarto, 40 issues, each one comprising a single leaf printed recto and verso, with (on average) an illustration per issue.
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Anzac Memorial (Royal Edition, 25 April 1916)
$7500
Sydney, Returned Soldiers Association [of New South Wales], 25 April 1916. Number 5 of only 50 copies of the superb 'Royal Edition', with an original watercolour of an Australian light horseman by Will Donald. This edition, published on the first anniversary of the Gallipoli Landings, was produced for presentation to the King, the President of the French Republic, the President of the United States, and the kings of Allied Nations. The attractive Art Nouveau craft binding is by Molly Bamberger, one of several designs featuring Australian flora that we have seen on examples of this edition.
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HURLEY, Frank: A group of ten photographs from Sir Douglas Mawson's British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), 1929-1931
$5500
Seven photographs date from the the expedition's first voyage over the summer of 1929-30. These images show scenes from sub-Antarctic islands, including a fine three-panel panorama of the Kerguelen Islands, as the expedition did not set foot on continental Antarctica. The final three images relate to the second voyage, over the summer of 1930-31.
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MAIDEN, J.H.: The Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales
$950
Sydney, Government Printer, 1895 to 1898. The complete run of 7 parts, with a total of 28 full-page chromolithographs.
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MAXWELL, James Clerk: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (J.J. Thomson's working copy)
$200000
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1881 (second edition, revised)/ 1873. The personal working set of Sir Joseph John Thomson (Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron), with extensive annotations in his hand made while editing the third edition of Maxwell's important treatise. Later provenance from his son, Sir George Paget Thomson, also a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
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KING, Stephen: Six Stories (signed)
$4000
Bangor, Maine, Philtrum Press, 1997. Number 487 of 1100 copies signed by Stephen King. The edition was designed by Michael Alpert and printed at the Stinehour Press for Stephen King's small publishing house, Philtrum Press. The six stories are 'Lunch at the Gotham Cafe'; 'L.T.'s Theory of Pets'; 'Luckey Quarter'; 'Autopsy Room Four'; 'Blind Willie'; and 'The Man in the Black Suit'. Several of them are published here for the first time.
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POTTER, Beatrix: The Tale of Tom Kitten (first edition, deluxe issue)
$7500
London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1907. A very bright and desirable example of the scarce deluxe edition, undoubtedly rare in this condition.
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MILNE, A.A.: The Very Young Calendar 1930. Verses by A.A. Milne. Decorations by E.H. Shepard
$1100
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1929]. Apart from the cover-title leaf, there is a leaf for each month of the year, with a verse from Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. In the original box.
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LINDSAY, Lionel: Twenty-One Woodcuts. Drawn, engraved & printed by Lionel Lindsay (signed)
$4500
Sydney, Meryon Press, 1924. 'This book, the first of the "Meryon Press", was printed by Lionel Lindsay on the hand press given to him by his friend The Honourable John Lane Mullins M.L.C. It was completed in May, 1924. Of this edition 30 copies are on full vellum of Nikko, & 95 on Japanese vellum tipped on white Whatman. This copy is Number 16'; the colophon is signed by Lionel Lindsay.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.: Tales of St Austin's
$6500
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (first edition, first issue). Octavo, [xii], 282, [2] (advertisements) pages plus 12 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock, and E.F. Skinner (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard). An exceptional copy of Wodehouse's third book, a collection of 16 public school tales, here in its first-issue binding: an uncommonly bright example of a book notoriously susceptible to fading.
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GIBBS, May: Bib and Bub Painting Book
$1100
Sydney, Printed by W.C. Penfold & Co. [for May Gibbs, 1932]. The charming comic stip-style outline illustrations are designed to be coloured in. '24 New Bib & Bub Stories | One hundred & forty four Pictures to Colour | ... | We painted these to show the way we do it | Bib Bub' (text on the outside rear cover surrounding a full-colour strip of illustrations). Printed on the inside front cover is 'Bib's Advice' on 'How to put on Paint'; Bub's tips on 'How not to paint' appear on the inside rear cover.
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