Melville, Fred. J. - The Postage Stamps of the Cayman Islands
Publisher: Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., USA, 1920.
Paperback, illustrated, 22 pages, short (6cm) tear along spine, label to front cover, in Good condition.
Scarce Melville title.

£12.50

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Melville, Fred. J. - United States Special Service Stamps
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1915.
Paperback, illustrated, 67 pages, small rusty staple marks else in Very Good condition.
Melville Stamp Books No. 21. Scarce.

£12.00

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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, spine sunned, some small marks to the covers, a few spots of foxing to the title-page, other pages clean, in Good condition.
The classic work on bogus issues. Originally published in 1923, reprinted here with an interesting Foreword by Lowell Ragatz. Very scarce.

£18.00

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(Melville, F.J.) and Easton, John - Postage Stamps in the Making
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, 1949.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 246 pages + plates, some wear and repairs to dustwrapper, some toning to the endpapers, mild dusty marks to the page-edges, in Good condition.
The classic work on postage stamp production. An earlier version by Fred J. Melville was published in 1916, but this is the much revised (rewritten) edition. A 'must' for the serious philatelist.

£15.00

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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, 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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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, 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. - 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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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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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. - 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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Melville, Fred J. - United States Postage Stamps, 1922-1925
Publisher: The Philatelic Institute, London, 1925.
Paperback (card covers), illustrated, 93 pages, ex libris L.N. & M. Williams with their bookplate inside the front cover, front cover tanned in places and lightly scuffed, front inner hinge cracking slightly, in Good condition.
Larger format than the usual Melville books. A detailed study.

£15.00

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Melville, Fred J. - United States Postage Stamps, 1894-1910
Publisher: Melville Stamp Books, London, 1910.
Paperback, illustrated, 76 pages + adverts, one or two light marks else in Very Good condition.

£12.50

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