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

Highlights
T.S. ELIOT: 'Poems, 1909-1925'
$25000
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 (but January 1926). Number 1 of 85 copies of the deluxe issue on hand-made paper, signed by T.S. Eliot (of which 75 copies were offered for sale).
T.S. ELIOT: 'The Waste Land'
$15000
Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1923. The first English edition in book form, hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in an edition of approximately 460 copies. A splendid unopened copy of this seminal work of modern poetry.
Alexander Pushkin: A Dama de Espadas
$2500
[Rio de Janeiro], Confraria Bibliófila Brasileira ‘Cattleya Alba’, [1944]. Number 48 of only 200 copies of this deluxe privately printed edition, signed by the illustrator Martha Pawlowna Schidrowitz and translator Álvaro Moreyra. Entirely printed on undyed silk (unsurprisingly, this is the first such book printed in Brazil!), and bound in padded boards of the same material, with a matching box. The 52 hand-coloured plates, styled on the 52 cards in a deck, feature characters from the book and important Russian landmarks.
Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust
$15000
PROUST, Marcel: An autograph letter signed ‘Marcel’ to Maria Madrazo, sister of composer Reynaldo Hahn, Proust’s intimate friend and sometime lover. Proust writes to persuade his ‘Chère amie’ that his financial troubles (apparently mentioned in an earlier letter) are transitory and that he is horrified that she believed he was asking to borrow money.
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Sidney Nolan: Paradise Garden (with original drawing)
$5500
London, R. Alistair McAlpine Publishing Ltd, 1971. The standard edition, limited to 2890 copies, but here with a large original crayon drawing signed by Sidney Nolan.
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