Holley, D.R.M. - Kedah and Perlis
Their Stamps and Postal History 1887-1941
Publisher: The Malaya Study Group, 1995.
Hardback, xvii + 478 pages + plates, slight signs of use, slight dusty marks to page-edges, in Good condition.
A superb handbook. Very detailed and comprehensive. Extremely well illustrated, including 8 pages of colour plates illustrating proofs, essays and colour trials. Contents: The Geographical Background; The Historical Background; The Siamese Postal System; Siamese Currency and the Stamps and Stationery used in Kedah and Perlis; Siamese Postage Rates; The Siamese Postmarks of Kedah and Perlis; The Transfer of Kedah and Perlis to Great Britain in 1909; Stamps of the Straits Settlements 'Used' in Kedah and Perlis before 1912; The Stamps, Cancellations and Postal History of the FMS Period 1909-1912; The 1912 Issues on Multiple Crown CA Paper; The 1919-21 Issues on Multiple Crown CA Paper;The 1919 50c/$2 & $1/$3 Provisionals; Stamps of the Straits Settlements Used in Kedah and Perlis in 1919; The Issues on Multiple Script CA Paper - The 'Padi-Sheaf' Values; The Issues on Multiple Script CA Paper - The 'Malay Ploughing' and 'Council Chamber' Values; The Malaya-Borneo Exhibition Issues; The 1937 Sultan Halim Shah Portrait Issue; The Revenue Stamps; Essays, Proofs, Colour Trials, Printers' Samples and Specimens; Postal Stationery; Airmails; Postage Rates 1909-1941; The Opening and Distribution of the Post Offices; The Postmarks of Kedah and Perlis; The Field Post Offices 1939-42; Appendices, Bibliography, Index.

£35.00

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Proud, Edward B. - The Postal History of Malaya Volume 1
Straits Settlements
Publisher: Proud-Bailey, East Sussex, 2000.
Second edition, revised & enlarged, hardback, illustrated, 440 pages, in Very Good condition.
An excellent volume in the series of Proud British Empire postal history handbooks - the first of the three volumes covering the postal history of Malaya. This volume covers the postal history of the States of the former Straits Settlements - Singapore, Penang, and Malacca. Illustrated with hundreds of postmark illustrations, photographs and maps, four colour plates, and with valuations throughout.

£40.00

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Proud, Edward B. - British Post Offices in the Far East
Publisher: Proud-Bailey, East Sussex, 1991.
Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 551 pages + colour plates, price sticker to dustwrapper spine else in Very Good condition.
Another excellent volume in the series of Proud British Empire postal history handbooks. With the author's usual combination of fascinating background information, reprinting of postal documents, and thorough listing, illustrating and valuation of the postal markings. Very well illustrated with postmark illustrations. Contents include British Post Offices in China, Japan, Macao, and Thailand, Postal Rates, Pacific Mail Routes, etc.

£40.00

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Jatia, D.N. - From the Diary of Stephen Smith
Publisher: The Philatelic Congress of India, New Delhi, 1980.
Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 61 pages, several tears to the dustwrapper, short tear to edge of one page (not affecting the text), in Good condition.
Stephen Smith's Indian rocket mail experiments. With black & white illustrations of flown covers and sketches of the rocket firings.

£24.00

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Virk, D.S. and Hume, John; Lang, Derek & Sattin, Gerald - The China Expeditionary Force 1900-1923
Publisher: Philatelic Congress of India, 1992.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 271 pages + plates, dustwrapper rubbed at corners, slight spine-lean, in Good condition.
An excellent handbook covering the postal history, postage stamps and stationery of the C.E.F. - the British contribution (consisting almost entirely of Indian troops) to the international force sent to China following the Boxer Rebellion. Well illustrated, including several pages of colour plates. "The C.E.F. episode is a landmark in the postal history of the Indian Campaigns. The postal commitment lasted for almost a quarter of a century. Special Indian postage stamps and stationery were used with separate issues for the reigns of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. The C.E.F. post offices in China offered almost all the important postal facilities available in India with the addition of some new money order services. The C.E.F. mail was carried by all the steamer mail lines between Europe, India and China and later even by the Trans-Siberian Railway. During 23 years of operations, an array of postmarks was generated, unequalled in any earlier overseas assignment. The C.E.F. records such interesting developments in the growth of the Field Post, that it has fascinated students of Postal History, Traditional Philately and Post Office historians in general."

£40.00

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Virk, D.S. - Postal History of Indian Military Campaigns
Sikkim - Tibet 1903-1908
Publisher: Philatelic Congress of India & Army Postal Service Association, 1989.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 144 pages + plates, dustwrapper spine a little sunned, spine-lean, in Good condition.
An excellent handbook covering the postal history of the Sikkim-Tibet campaign. Well illustrated, including several pages of colour plates. "The Postal History of the Sikkim-Tibet Campaign is most interesting, covering as it does, a period of 5 years beginning in 1903 with political manoeuvres, followed in 1904 by the long military march to Lhasa and ending in 1908 with the evacuation of the occupied Chumbi Valley. Moreover it offers an unusual example of the mingling of civil and army post offices. "Besides providing detailed postal history of the Campaign, the book offers much useful information in its Appendices for researching postal covers - Roll of Officers, Table of Post Offices, Postal Rates, List of Stamps and Seals and many illustrations. Part 2 of the book contains a Table of Recorded Postmarks and their drawings specially prepared by Dr. Wolfgang Hellrigl. The contemporary Field Post Office Diary of the Campaign containing a rare day-to-day chronicle of postal work and problems on Field Service is reproduced in Part 3 in its entirety."

£40.00

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Leote, Joaquim - Os Selos Nativos da Índia Portuguesa
Breves Considerações
Publisher: Club Nacional de Filatelia, Porto, 1997.
Paperback, illustrated, 62 pages, bilingual text in Portuguese and English, covers slightly toned and slightly creased, pages fine, in Good condition.
An excellent study of the pre-adhesives and stamps of Portuguese India, based on the author's Gold Medal collection. Very well illustrated in colour. Scarce.

£24.00

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Shipman, L.H. - The Stamps and Postal History of North Borneo
Part - 1883 to 1893
Publisher: The Sarawak Specialists' Society, nd [circa 1976].
Paperback, illustrated, 348 pages, some foxing/dusty marks to the page-edges, internally clean, in Good condition.
The first, and scarcest, volume in the three volume series. A detailed and comprehensive handbook on the early stamp issues, including proofs, plating, etc.

£50.00

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Davis, Bonnie - Royal Siamese Postal Service
(The Early Years)
Publisher: Siam Stamp Trading Co. Ltd., Bangkok, 1983.
Hardback, illustrated, [vii] + 167 pages, small scuff to top edge of front cover, covers rubbed at corners, in Good condition.
Scarce and interesting history of the posts in Siam (Thailand) 1880-1908. Well illustrated in black & white.

£25.00

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Nayeem, M.A. - Nizam - British Relations in Postal Communications and Administration (1748-1947)
Publisher: Jal Cooper, Bombay, 1969.
Paperback, illustrated, 32 pages, in Very Good condition.
Scarce monograph.

£9.50

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Poole, Bertram W.H. - Sarawak
A Complete History of its Postage Stamps
Publisher: D. Field, London, 1906.
Small format paperback, illustrated, 72 pages, small scuff to front cover with small amount of loss to the surface, a little creased, in Good condition.
Scarce early handbook.

£10.00

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Harkawat, N.J. - The Indore State Hand Book
The Postal History of Indore State from 1829-1950
Publisher: privately published by the author, no date [circa 1973].
Paperback, 71 pages, illustrated, slight sunning to the spine and a little to the rear cover, a few slight marks to a couple of pages but overall in Good condition.
Scarce, well illustrated handbook.

£20.00

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Gleichen, Maj.-Gen. Edward - First General List of Names in the Empire of India
Publisher: Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, London, 1924.
Paperback, 16 pages, very slight hint of creasing, a few tiny spots of very light foxing, else in Very Good condition.
Rare. [Non-philatelic]

£9.50

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Martin, M.F.C. - English Names for Indian Places
A Coded Index of Indian Post Offices
Publisher: India Study Circle, 1966.
Large format paperback, v + 59 pages, in Good condition.
Scarce early India Study Circle publication.

£12.50

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[Koreywo, Olgierd] - The late Lt. Commander Olgierd Koreywo Collection of Japan
Parts I & II
Publisher: Kanai Stamp Co., Osaka, 1978-79.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 113 pages + separate brochure of plates, 70 pages, with the prices realised, Introduction in English, text in Japanese with some English, tiny tear to foot of spine, crease to rear cover, in Good condition.
Rare catalogue, with separate plates (4 in colour, 66 black & white).

£24.00

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Glanzmann, Arthur - People's Republic of China including Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan
Catalogue of the First Flight Covers 1949-1995, Part 1 International Flights
Publisher: Lawrence AG, Lucerne, 1996.
First edition, paperback, illustrated, circa 300 pages, in Very Good condition.
Comprehensive catalogue. Well illustrated in black & white.

£20.00

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[Dewey, James E.] - Malaya
The James E. Dewey collection including a fine section of Japanese Occupation Issues
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1973.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 36 pages, a few tiny pencil marks to page margins, in Good condition.
Scarce catalogue.

£7.50

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[De Roemer, M.C.] - The Japanese Occupation Issues of Burma, Malaya, Brunei, North Borneo, Sarawak, The Andaman & Nicobar Islands & Hong Kong
The Martin C. De Roemer Collections
Publisher: Harmer, Rooke, London, 1964.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 41 pages + 19 plates, with a photocopy of the prices realised, a few marks to the front cover, in Good condition.
Scarce, important catalogue of Japanese Occupation issues. Illustrated in black & white.

£15.00

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[Koreywo, Olgierd] - The late Lt. Commander Olgierd Koreywo Collection of Japan and Far East
Part III
Publisher: Kanai Stamp Co., Osaka, 1979.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 44 pages, illustrated, Japan section in Japanese, other sections in Japanese and English, with the prices realised, in Very Good condition.
Scarce catalogue featuring Osaka cancellations, Korea and Taiwan (Formosa).

£12.50

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- Japanese Occupation Stamps
Burma, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak, Philippine, etc.
Publisher: Kanai Stamp Co., Osaka, 1972-73.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 166 pages + separate brochure of plates, 58 pages, bilingual text in Japanese & English, few tiny marks to the covers else in Very Good condition.
Rare catalogue, complete with the volume of black & white photo-plates.

£28.00

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