Melville, Fred J. - Tonga
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Hardback, original publisher's grey cloth, illustrated, 65 pages + xv publisher's adverts, some foxing and staining to the spine and covers, some foxing to preliminaries and page-edges, contents sound, in reasonably Good condition.
Rare Melville handbook.

£25.00

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Nankivell, Edward J. and Melville, Fred J. (edited by) - Niger Coast Protectorate
Publisher: Baldwin, Tunbridge Wells, nd (1909).
First edition, paperback, 20 pages, illustrated, front cover soiled, slightly rusty staples, in Good condition.
Scarce early handbook.

£11.00

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Melville, Fred J. - St. Helena
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1912.
Paperback, 82 pages + adverts, illustrated, in Very Good condition.
Rare classic work, covering all the stamp issues, and including production, watermarks, proofs & essays, etc.

£15.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Nevis
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1909.
Hardback, original publisher's grey cloth, illustrated, xv + 60 pages, very slightly rubbed to top of spine else in Very Good condition.
Scarce vintage handbook.

£20.00

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Melville, Fred J. - Phantom Philately
A Descriptive List of Stamps that are not what they seem
Publisher: Janet van den Berg, Ohio, 1950.
Reprint, paperback, illustrated, 204 pages, title handwritten to spine, spine sunned, slight corner-crease to front cover, previous owner's name inside front cover, in Good condition.
The classic work on bogus issues. Originally published in 1923, reprinted here with an interesting Foreword by Lowell Ragatz. Very scarce.

£20.00

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Melville, F.J. - Great Britain: Line-Engraved Stamps
Publisher: The Philatelic Institute, London, nd [1925].
Melville Stamp Books Number One, third edition, paperback, illustrated, 82 pages + advertisements, slightly chipped at top of spine, minor crease to front cover, small ink inscription to a preliminary page, in Good condition.
Scarce, useful work.

£12.00

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Melville, Fred J. - War Stamps of Salonika and Long Island
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1916.
Paperback, illustrated, 54 pages, staples rather rusted, very short tear at top of spine, pages clean, in Good condition.
Scarce vintage handbook on the Salonika Levant issue and the typewriter-produced Long Island stamps of the First World War.

£15.00

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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. - 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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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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