Philatelic Literature Specialists

General philatelic works

Publisher: Canadian Military Mail Study Group, 1991

Large paperback, viii + 233 pages, illustrated, minor shelf-wear, in Good condition.

£15.00

Tchilinghirian, S.D. and Stephen, W.S.E.

Part Five: Manchuria, Chinese Eastern Railway

Publisher: The British Society of Russian Philately, 1959

Paperback (card covers), illustrated, 94 pages + folding map, mild shelf-wear, internally clean, in Good condition.

£50.00

Tchilinghirian, S.D. and Stephen, W.S.E.

Part Six: Ship Mail to Korea & Japan, Russian America, Supplement

Publisher: The British Society of Russian Philately, 1960

Paperback (card covers), illustrated, 96 pages, very slight bump to foot of spine, very slight wear/toning to the covers, internally clean, in Good condition.

£40.00

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1931

Paperback, 8 pages, rusty staples, Post Office Stores ink-stamp to front cover, few ink annotations to pages, in Good condition.

£25.00

Walker, Douglas A.

The Internal Flights

Publisher: The Air Mail Society of New Zealand, 1955

First edition, hardback (paper-covered thick card boards), [ii] + 114 pages, front cover corners scuffed with some loss, some tiny corner-creases to some pages, in Good condition.

£25.00

Smith, Peter A.S.

Publisher: Mobile Post Office Society, 1983

Paperback, illustrated, ii + 65 pages, some slight corner-creases, tiny scuff to rear cover, page-edges very slightly toned, internally clean, in Good condition.

£14.00

Smith, W.J.

The Postage Stamp – how it was invented

Publisher: David Winter & Son Ltd., Dundee, 1970

Hardback, dustwrapper, 148 pages + plates, dustwrapper slightly rubbed else in Very Good condition.

£9.50

and also An Order in Council, dated 5th April 1805

Publisher: printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, London, 1805

Hardback, marbled paper-covered boards, 86 + [60] pages, covers a little rubbed, minor spine defects, in Very Good condition.

£195.00

Raynham, F.J. and Calvert, W.S.G.

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1936

Post Office Green Papers No. 27, paperback, colour frontispiece, 24 pages + plates, some foxing and marks to the covers, pages clean, in Good condition.

£20.00

Carter, W.G.

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1937

Post Office Green Paper No. 36, paperback, 22 pages + plates, slight foxing and tiny marks to the covers, slight crease to front cover, pages fine, in Good condition.

£15.00

Clear, C.R.

Together with a copy and a transcription of the Proclamation of King Charles the First establishing the first State postal service for the conveyance of private letters in England and Scotland

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1935

Post Office Green Papers No. 15, first edition, paperback, frontispiece, 19 pages, very slight wear to top of spine, in Good condition.

£14.50

Field, F.J.

A Chronology

Publisher: Francis J. Field Ltd., Sutton Coldfield, 1935

First edition, card covers, 129 pages, illustrated, spine and covers slightly rubbed at extremities and somewhat soiled, foxing to endpapers and page-edges, and with scattered foxing throughout. A Good working copy.

£12.50

Field, Francis J. and Baldwin, N.C.

1911

Publisher: Francis J. Field, 1934

First edition, hardback, illustrated, 82 pages, spine and upper portions of covers sunned, in Good condition.

£40.00

Hopkins, A.E.

Publisher: privately published by the author, Bath, 1929

Hardback, original orange cloth, 23 pages + 6 plates, previous owner’s name to front pastedown-endpaper, slight hint of foxing to front free-endpaper, in Good condition.

£30.00

Lowe, Robson

Part One

Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1937

Small paperback, 8 pages, illustrated, covers a little toned, inscription (presumably by Robson Lowe) to Ben Goodfellow to front cover, in Good condition.

£15.00

Melville, F.J.

Publisher: The Philatelic Institute, London, nd [1925]

Melville Stamp Books Number One, third edition, hardback, original publisher’s grey cloth, illustrated, 82 pages + advertisements, previous owner’s ink-stamp to front pastedown-endpaper, minor signs of age, in Good condition.

£24.00

Koeppel, Adolph and Manners, Raymond D.

Volume I The Adhesive Stamps, SUPPLEMENT

Publisher: The Fiscal Philatelic Foundation Inc., New York, 1986

Large format hardback, illustrated, v + 194 pages, slight hint of spine-lean, some scuff marks to the rear cover, in Good condition.

£95.00

Wolter, Karl Kurt

Geschichte, Typen der Stempel und Briefverschlüsse mit ihre Bewertung, Band I Vorzeit, Frühzeit und Neuzeit (bis 1939) & Band II Neuzeit (1939-1965)

Publisher: Georg Amm, München, 1965-66

Two large hardbacks, dustwrappers, illustrated, iv + 147 + v + 157 pages + xxvii plates, text in German, with Preface in French & English, one or two short tears to the dustwrappers, else in Very Good condition.

£100.00

Sundal, F. Aleem and Kasbati, Rafiq

Publisher: SK Publisher, Karachi, 1995

Paperback, x + 148 pages, illustrated, slight hint of spine-lean else in Very Good condition.

£24.00

Baldwin, N.C.

A Chronological Record of all Projected, Attempted and Successful Atlantic Flights until the Inception of Regular Services, and a Priced Catalogue of Souvenirs

Publisher: F.J. Field, Sutton Coldfield, 1945

First edition, hardback, original blue cloth gilt, illustrated, 95 pages, mild signs of age else in Very Good condition.

£24.00

Van der Walt, Andries

A Study of the Development of the Postal History of Mafeking from 1881 to 1910

Publisher: Postmark and Postal History Society of Southern Africa, 1986

Large format (A4) paperback, 36 pages, illustrated, some foxing and small marks to the covers, pages slightly toned, crease to rear cover and bend to pages, an acceptable reading copy only.

£8.50

Batten, A.G.M.

Publisher: Orange Free State Philatelic Society, Bloemfontein, 1983

Large format (A4) paperback, [vi] + 45 pages, covers slightly sunned, corners very slightly creased, in Good condition.

£12.50

Atlee, W. Dudley and Pemberton, Edward L. and Earée, Robert B.

An Illustrated Descriptive Catalog of Early Philatelic Forgeries

Publisher: Emile Bertrand, Lucerne, circa 1960s

Reprint, paperback, illustrated, 168 pages, slight corner-creases to the covers, page-edges a little toned, in Good condition.

£20.00

Melville, Fred J.

Publisher: The Philatelic Institute, London, [1919]

Philatelic Institute Papers No.2. Paperback booklet, 4 pages, front and rear covers coming loose, slight marks to rear cover, in Fair/Good condition.

£11.50

Haynes, Bruce and Pope, Brian

The Forces, Prisoner of War and Censor Mail

Publisher: The Western Australia Study Group, Perth, 1997

Hardback, dustwrapper, xii + 851 pages, illustrated, mild shelfwear, creasing to fore-edges of several pages, in Good condition.

£60.00

Entwistle, Charles R.

Transatlantic & Beyond

Publisher: Chavril Press, nd

Paperback, 24 pages, very slight marks to the covers, very slightly rusty staples, pages fine, in Good condition.

£6.00