Paperback, 973 pages, a well used copy, covers creased and rubbed, page corners of first and last few pages creased with a few tears and occasional loss of small edge pieces, a dog-eared copy in Fair/Poor condition but complete.
Philatelic Literature Specialists
Great Britain
A Review of Post Office Activities
Publisher: HMSO, London, 1951
Paperback, [iv] + 92 pages, illustrated, tiny short tear to lower-edge of front cover, slight wear to top of spine, in Good condition.
£10.00
containing the Chief Public Regulations of the Post Office
Publisher: Postings, Oxted, 1994
Facsimile reprint, paperback, 173 pages, some slight corner-creasing to the covers, pages fine, in Good condition.
£8.50
Proud, Edward B.
Publisher: Postal History Publishing Co., 1992
Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 232 pages, dustwrapper a little creased and slightly rubbed at top of spine, in Good condition.
£16.00
Proud, Edward B.
Publisher: Proud-Bailey, East Sussex, 1991
Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 551 pages + colour plates, dustwrapper a little creased and with a short tear to the rear panel else in Very Good condition.
£40.00
Hahn, Andreas
Essays and Printing trials from the F.A. Philbrick Collection and the “Prussian Find”
Publisher: Andreas Hahn & FG Grosbritannien im Bund Deutscher Philatelisten, 2008
Hardback, illustrated, 128 pages, bilingual text in English & German, slight hint of spine-lean, in Good condition.
£20.00
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
Vol. II No. 8 (Whole No. 20)
Publisher: General Post Office, London, 1935
Paperback, viii + 40 pages, illustrated, slight rust to staples else in Very Good condition.
£6.00
Foxell, J.T. and Spafford, A.O.
The Story of the Post Office Surveyors
Publisher: H.M.S.O., London, 1952
First edition, paperback, 55 pages + plates, covers & page-edges a little toned (as usual) else in Very Good condition.
£12.00
Meredith, F.W.
With Catalogue Priced by Walter Morley
Publisher: Walter Morley, London, 1923
Hardback, original green cloth gilt, illustrated, 100 pages, covers very slightly sunned, in Good condition.
£20.00
Smith, Peter A. Forrestier (editor)
Publisher: London Postal History Group, 1999
London Postal History Group Notebook Nos. 139/144, November 1999. Large (A4) paperback, spiralbound, illustrated, 141 pages, in Very Good condition.
£12.50
Parmenter, John
1840 to 1930
Publisher: Rossiter Trust & BPT for the LPHG, 2002
Large format hardback, 118 pages, illustrated, slight hint of spine-lean else in Very Good condition.
£30.00
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
Baines, F.E.
Publisher: Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1895
In two volumes, hardback, original maroon cloth gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, vii + 337 + 345 pages + plates + folding map, scratch marks to the front covers (probably where labels have been removed), slight dents to the fore-edges of the covers, a little foxing to the tissue guards, in Good condition.
£40.00
Ballantyne, R.M.
A Tale of Her Majesty’s Mails
Publisher: James Nisbet & Co., London, 1881
Later impression (“tenth thousand”), hardback, original embossed green cloth gilt, vi + 424 pages + plates + publisher’s advertisements, front and rear hinges cracking, foxing to first page, original owner’s gift inscription at front, in reasonably Good condition.
£24.00
Hyde, J. Wilson
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black, London, 1894
First edition, hardback, original red cloth gilt, xvi + 355 pages, spine slightly toned and marked, a short tear to the front inner hinge, in Good condition.
£25.00
Volume I Inland Services and General Information
Publisher: The Stationery Office, Dublin, 1959
Paperback, 285 pages, first page toned else in Very Good condition.
£18.00
Daynes, J.A.
A priced list of censor marks and labels used by British Empire and Allied Forces in Exile
Publisher: The Forces Postal History Society, 1984
Large paperback, comb-bound, illustrated, 117 pages + 1986 Supplement, very slight corner-crease to front cover, in Good condition.
£15.00
Scott, H. Eric
Publisher: privately published, 1970
Large format paperback (card covers), illustrated, 29 pages, slight marks to the front cover, in Good condition.
£28.00
Foster, G.A.
Publisher: Chas. Nissen & Co., London, 1910
First edition, large format, paperback, illustrated, 56 pages, covers a little chipped at edges with small amount of loss, in Good condition.
£30.00
Mackay, James A.
Publisher: privately published, Dumfries, 1981
Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 50 pages + ix plates, in Very Good condition.
£15.00
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
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
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
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