Great Britain

Hyde, James Wilson

The Royal Mail

Its Curiosities and Romance

Publisher: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1889

Third edition, hardback, original red cloth gilt with decorative front board, frontispiece, xvi + 306 pages, 2cm tear to top of spine, small marks and stains to the covers, presentation bookplate to front pastedown endpaper, presented to a Post Office Telegraphs Messenger for proficiency at drill and general good conduct in 1906, some wear to front free-endpaper with loss of a tiny corner-piece, in Good condition.

£25.00

Beaumont, K.M. and Stanton, J.B.M.

The Postage Stamps of Great Britain

Part Four: The Issues of King George V

Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1957

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 248 pages + plates, dustwrapper in Poor condition (in pieces, marked and torn), slight spine-lean, slight toning to pages, a Good working copy.

£22.00

Cribb, Stephen

The Standard Catalogue of Postal Orders

Vol. 1 The British Postal Order 1881-1981

Publisher: Squirrel Publishing, 1984

Paperback, illustrated, [iv] + 66 pages, covers quite rubbed, in Good condition.

£7.00

Mackay, James A.

Machine Cancellations of Scotland

Publisher: privately published, 1986

Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 204 pages, in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Coerts, Gerrie and Maarsen, Fred and van Soest, Aart

75 Years of Jamboree

Stories and Stamps

Publisher: Detail Topical Stamp Catalogues, Netherlands, 1995

Second edition, paperback, illustrated, 78 pages, text in English, tiny scuff to spine, in Good condition.

£5.00

Boyden, Peter B.

Tommy Atkins’ Letters

The History of the British Army Postal Service from 1795

Publisher: National Army Museum, London, 1990

Large format (A4) paperback, pictorial card covers, illustrated in colour, 48 pages, ex-York Philatelic Society with library marks to title-page, corners creased, a Good reading copy only.

£7.00

Lumley, D.O.

Air Mail Operation

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1936

Post Office Green Paper No. 23, paperback, 18 pages + plates, slight corner-crease to front cover, small dent to rear cover, in Good condition.

£12.50

Lumley, D.O.

Air Mail

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1939

Post Office Green Paper No. 45, paperback, 21 pages + plates, some corner-creasing, in Good condition.

£12.50

Rose, Stuart

Royal Mail Stamps

a survey of British stamp design

Publisher: Phaidon, 1980

Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 128 pages, a few tiny marks to the page-edges, slight signs of use, in Good condition.

£7.50

Daunton, M.J.

Royal Mail

The Post Office since 1840

Publisher: The Athlone Press, London, 1985

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, xviii + 388 pages + plates, Foreword by Asa Briggs, dustwrapper spine slightly sunned, minor shelf-wear, in Good condition.

£10.50

Five Souvenir Postcards

Historic Stagecoach Route Bristol-Chepstow-Monmouth-Hereford-Shrewsbury-Chester

Publisher: Hereford Head Post Office, circa 1982

Set of five large format postcards in card folder, in Very Good condition.

£10.00

Donald, Archie

The Posts of Sevenoaks in Kent

An Account of the Handling and Transportation of the Written Communication of Sevenoaks District (Westerham to Wrotham, Biggin Hill to Edenbridge) on the Road to Rye and Hastings

Publisher: Woodvale Press, Tenterden, 1992

First edition, large hardback, dustwrapper, xiii + 452 pages, short tear to dustwrapper, dustwrapper spine slightly sunned, binding a little shaken, in Good condition.

£13.50

['Besançon']

Great Britain 1840-1910

The ‘Besançon’ Collection (part II)

Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2020

Auction catalogue, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 176 pages, text in English, with a print-out of the prices realised, slightest signs of shelf-wear else in Very Good condition.

£15.00

Hall, Arthur W.G.

The Post Office at Nottingham

Publisher: privately published, Nottingham, 1947

Hardback, original green cloth gilt, dustwrapper, 152 pages + plates, several short tears to the dustwrapper, book itself in Very Good condition.

£20.00

Williamson, Sir Frederick

The Air Mail Service

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, 1934

Post Office Green Papers No. 1, paperback, 18 pages, slight age-wear else in Very Good condition.

£12.50

Hudson, Capt. A.

Post Office Motor Transport

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1936

Post Office Green Papers No. 28, paperback, 14 pages + 8 plates, rusty staples, dent to rear cover and slightly affecting some pages, in Good condition.

£12.50

Radice, F.R.

The Express Service

Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1937

Post Office Green Papers No. 35, paperback, frontispiece + 14 pages, rusty staples, some tiny marks to covers, rear cover creased, in Good condition.

£10.00

The Post Office Staff Handbook

Publisher: GPO, 1958

Card covers, circa 75 pages, in Very Good condition.

£15.00

Post Office Express Delivery Service

Notice from the Post Office

Publisher: GPO, London, nd [circa 1902]

Leaflet, single folded sheet, 4 pages, vertical crease caused by folding, some small spots of foxing, in Good condition.

£20.00

JPC News-Information, Post Office Research

Publisher: JPC, 1963

Leaflet, single folded sheet, one corner creased else in Very Good condition.

£5.00

The Post Office Tower

Publisher: GPO, London, 1964

Leaflet, single folded sheet, in Very Good condition.

£6.00

Alcock, R.C.

The Alphabets of the British Line Engraved Stamps

Publisher: R.C. Alcock Ltd., Cheltenham, 1937

Second edition, hardback, 80 pages + 45 plates (Plates 1-19 in pocket at rear), hint of spine-lean, some toning to the title-page, tissue-guards also toned but text and plates in nice condition. A Good example of this important reference work.

£65.00

Meredith, C.W.

Scots Local Cancellations

A History of their Usage and the Various Types Involved

Publisher: R.C. Alcock Ltd., Cheltenham, 1953

First edition, paperback, illustrated, 43 pages + publisher’s advertisements, slight rust to staples, covers a little sunned, in Good condition.

£9.50

Jarvis, Steve and Wright, Paul

Jamaica

A Display to the Royal Philatelic Society London

Publisher: privately published, 2017

Paperback, illustrated, 36 pages, in Very Good condition.

£10.00

Newport, William

The Channel Islands

Their Postal History, Stamps and Postal Markings

Publisher: H. Garratt-Adams & Co., Birmingham, 1950

Paperback, illustrated, 66 pages, a few tiny marks to the front cover, a little light foxing, in Good condition.

£8.50

Report from the Select Committee on Post Office Servants

Publisher: HMSO, London, 1907

Large format (34 x 21 cm) paperback, original printed blue paper covers, v + 104 pages, covers chipped at edges with some loss, loss of fragments from top and foot of spine, some pages corner-creased with loss of a few tiny pieces – slightly fragile but contents sound, in Fair to Good condition.

£75.00

Burrows, Peter C.

‘I am well’

An illustrated history of British Army Form A.2042 and other military postcards issued since 1900

Publisher: privately published, 1987

Large format paperback, comb-bound, illustrated, unpaginated (circa 300+ pages), in Very Good condition.

£36.00

Nicholson, L.C.C.

Jamaican Obliteration Numbers

Publisher: privately published, London, 1949

Paperback, illustrated, 16 pages, slightest shelf-wear else in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Melville, Fred. J.

Stamp Collections for War Museums

How War Stamps will illustrate many interesting side-lights on the present War

Publisher: published for the Junior Philatelic Society by Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1918

Paperback, illustrated, 40 pages, slightly rusty staples, ex-Aberdeen University with small handstamp to first few pages, in Good condition.

£22.00

Stitt Dibden, W.G.

Postage Rates of H.M. Forces 1795-1899

Publisher: The Postal History Society, 1963

First edition, paperback (card covers), 85 pages + plates (one folding), some marks to the front cover, rear cover detached (but still present), pages fine, in Good condition.

£17.50

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