Melville, Fred. J. - Oil Rivers and Niger Coast Protectorates
Publisher: The Philatelic Institute, London, 1924.
Melville Stamp Books No. 23. Paperback, illustrated, 58 pages, tiny short tear to foot of spine else in Very Good condition.
One of the scarcer Melville handbooks.

£24.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Jamaica
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1910.
Hardback, original publisher's red lambskin gilt, top page-edges gilt, illustrated, 89 pages + adverts, top and bottom of spine rubbed, in Good condition.
Scarce handbook.

£30.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Egypt
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1915.
Melville Stamp Books No. 20, first edition, hardback, original publisher's red lambskin gilt, top page-edges gilt, 81 pages, spine and corners slightly rubbed, in Good condition.
Scarce Melville publication. With chapters on The Post in Egypt, The "Arabesque" Issue of 1866, The First Sphinx Issue, The Surface-Printed Sphinx, The 1878 Provisionals, Advent of De La Rue, etc, etc. Well illustrated.

£35.00

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Melville, Fred J. - War Stamps of Salonika and Long Island
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1916.
Hardback, original publisher's grey cloth, illustrated, 54 pages, lacks front free-endpaper else in Very Good condition.
Scarce vintage handbook on the Salonika Levant issue and the typewriter-produced Long Island stamps of the First World War.

£30.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Tonga
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Hardback, original publisher's grey cloth, illustrated, 65 pages + xv publisher's adverts, light soiling to spine and covers, small area of front cover slightly rubbed, internally fine, in Good condition.
Rare Melville handbook.

£30.00

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Melville, Fred J. - British New Guinea and Papua
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Hardback, original publisher's grey cloth, illustrated, 63 pages + xvi publisher's adverts, ex libris a philatelic society library with bookplate to front endpaper and small mark to covers where a label has been romoved from the spine, slight wear, in Good condition.
Scarce handbook.

£24.00

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Melville, Fred. J. - The Postage Stamps of British Central Africa
[and Nyasaland Protectorate]
Publisher: Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., USA, [1924].
Paperback, illustrated, 28 pages, slight corner-crease else in Very Good condition.
Scarce.

£16.00

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Poole, Bertram W.H. and Melville, Fred J. (edited by) - Dominica
Publisher: C. Baldwin, Tunbridge Wells, [1909].
Paperback, illustrated, 26 pages, some minor soiling to the covers, covers chipped at edges with some loss of small pieces, in Good condition.
"The Postage Stamp" Handbooks No. 4. Scarce.

£13.50

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Melville, Fred J. - The Postage Stamps of Hayti
Publisher: Charles Nissen & Co., London, [1905].
Small paperback, illustrated, 69 pages, spine slightly sunned, minor shelfwear, else in VG condition.
Scarce early Melville publication.

£13.50

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Melville, Fred J. - Cape of Good Hope
With Mafeking and Vryburg
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1913.
Paperback, illustrated, 96 pages, small rusty staple marks to covers, a little light foxing to preliminary pages, in Good condition.
Scarce handbook covering all the stamp issues from the first Cape Triangulars to the Edward VII series, and including the siege of Mafeking and occupation of Vryburg.

£20.00

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Melville, Fred. J. - The Postage Stamps of the Cayman Islands
Publisher: Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., USA, 1920.
Paperback, illustrated, 22 pages, ex libris W.R. Ricketts with his library stamp to front cover and to title-page, loss of small (3cm) piece from corner of rear cover else in Very Good condition.
Scarce Melville title.

£14.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Egypt
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1915.
Melville Stamp Books No. 20, first edition, paperback, 81 pages, two inch tear to front cover at bottom of spine, rusty staples, mild foxing to half-title page, other pages clean, overall in Good condition.
Scarce Melville publication. With chapters on The Post in Egypt, The "Arabesque" Issue of 1866, The First Sphinx Issue, The Surface-Printed Sphinx, The 1878 Provisionals, Advent of De La Rue, etc, etc. Well illustrated.

£12.00

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Crouch, L.W. and Melville, Fred J. (Editor) - The Fiscal Stamps of the United States
Publisher: H.F. Johnson for the Junior Philatelic Society, London, [1910].
Large format paperback, illustrated, 15 pages, creasing and short tears to the edges of the covers, pages fine, in Good condition.
Stamp Lover Booklets No. 2. Scarce.

£15.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Great Britain:
Embossed Adhesive Stamps
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1910.
Paperback, xvi + 39 pages, illustrated, slight wear to edges of covers, short tear at top of spine, in Good condition.
Detailed and well illustrated handbook. Scarce.

£9.50

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Miss Fitte [Melville, F.J.] - The World's Stamp Errors
Part I. The British Empire
Publisher: W.H. Peckitt, London, 1910.
Paperback, illustrated, 59 pages, covers a little rubbed and creased, in Good condition.
Scarce.

£13.50

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Melville, Fred J. - The Cradle of the Postage Stamp
Publisher: Harmer, Rooke & Co. Ltd., London, 1923.
First edition, paperback, 30 pages, covers chipped at edges with some loss and a small repair, short tear to the margin of one page, else in Good condition.
Rare booklet by Fred Melville on stamp auctioneers Harmer, Rooke and their address at 69 Fleet Street, "the cradle of the postage stamp", where Perkins, Bacon printed the first stamps. Nicely illustrated with sepia photographs.

£9.50

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Melville, Fred J. - A Penny All The Way
The Story of Penny Postage
Publisher: Fred J. Melville, London, 1908.
Second British edition, small format paperback, illustrated, 48 pages, spine repaired with silver tape and new staples, in Good condition.
A scarce Melville publication.

£12.00

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Melville, F.J. - The A.B.C. of Stamp Collecting
A Guide to the Instructive and Entertaining Study of the World's Postage Stamps
Publisher: Henry J. Drane, London, 1903.
Small format hardback, original red cloth, 159 pages + xix plates, short tear at foot of spine, in Good condition.
The prolific author's second book. Rare.

£24.00

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Melville, Fred J. - British New Guinea and Papua
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Paperback, illustrated, 63 pages, staples rather rusted, in Good condition.
Scarce vintage handbook.

£16.00

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Melville, Fred J. - United States Postage Stamps, 1847-1869
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Paperback, illustrated, 68 pages + adverts, one or two slight marks else in Very Good condition.
Fine work on the classic stamps of the US.

£12.50

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