Philatelic Literature Specialists

Great Britain

Air Mail Services – Summer Season, 1921

Publisher: Post Office, London, April 1921

Leaflet, 4 pages, some creases, in Good condition.

£20.00

Baldwin, N.C.

1911-1960

Publisher: Reda SA, Geneva, 1969

Reprint, paperback, illustrated, 47 pages, foxing to the covers and a little to the page-edges, internally fine, in Good condition.

£7.50

Johnson, Robert and Wheatley, Richard

Publisher: Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, 2008

Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, ix + 110 pages, minimal shelf-wear else in Very Good condition.

£11.00

Ewen, H. L'Estrange

Describing all Varieties issued by the Railway Companies of Great Britain and Ireland under the authority of the Postmaster-General

Publisher: Ewen's Colonial Stamp Market, London, 1901

First edition, hardback, original half-leather gilt binding, top-edges gilt, illustrated, vii + 430 pages, original leather corners rubbed with some loss, front board and front free-endpaper detached, missing the backstrip (spine-covering), minor dusty marks to first and last few leaves else contents clean, in need of rebinding but a Good working copy.

£85.00

Birch, L.

Its Aberrations, Flaws, Abnormalities

Publisher: The Midland Stamp Co., Birmingham, no date

Hardback, illustrated, [iv] + 36 pages + plate loosely inserted, slight wear to spine and corners of the covers, few pencil marks to the pages, a Good working copy.

£20.00

Staff, Frank

1680 – 1918

Publisher: The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1964

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, 219 pages + plates, crease and short tear to dustwrapper with tiny amount of loss, book itself in Very Good, clean condition.

£12.00

Sweet, Fay

Publisher: The British Library & Royal Mail, London, 2002

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 112 pages, with two sets of the Golden Jubilee stamps loosely inserted, in Very Good condition.

£6.00

Tombs, R.C.

Publisher: J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, circa 1899

First edition, original red cloth gilt, decorated front cover, 295 pages + plates, spine sunned and slightly rubbed, some foxing to the endpapers, original owner’s name to front endpaper, in Good condition.

£22.00

Wall, Alan J.

1830-1860

Publisher: Somerset & Dorset Postal History Group, 1996

Large format (A4) paperback, comb-bound, viii + 30 pages, illustrated, a couple of tiny marks to the rear cover, very slight crease to rear cover and last few pages, in Good condition.

£9.50

Stray, Julian

Publisher: The British Postal Museum & Archive, London, 2006

Paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated in colour, viii + 79 pages, some slight shelf-wear, in Good condition.

£5.00

Briggs, Daniel

Publisher: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, Bristol, 1983

Paperback, 22 pages, illustrated, small inscription to front cover and previous owner’s name inside, in Good condition.

£5.00

Osborne, H.

Publisher: H.F. Johnson, London, 1946

Second edition, large hardback, original cloth gilt, illustrated, 170 pages + plates, spine a little sunned, some small marks to the endpapers, slight corner-creases to front free-endpaper, in Good condition.

£120.00

Harper, Charles G.

A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1903

First edition, two volumes, hardback, original red cloth gilt, top page-edges gilt, frontispiece + xii + 360 pages, frontispiece + xi + 368 pages, illustrated with full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, bindings a little sunned, a couple of short tears to foot of both spines, small mark to spine of Vol II, some cracking to front inner-hinges of both volumes, a little scattered foxing to endpapers, in Good condition.

£60.00

Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2021

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 380 pages, text mainly in English (Germany and Austria sections in German), in Very Good condition.

£10.00

Leslie, H.W.

Being an Account of the Operations of the Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 1914-1919

Publisher: Heinemann, London, 1920

First edition, hardback, original blue cloth gilt, 207 pages + plates, tiny hint of spine-lean, foxing to page-edges and a little scattered foxing to pages, minor cracking to rear inner-hinge, a Good reading copy.

£13.50

Ford, Eric H.

Publisher: Harry Hayes, Batley, 1971

Reprint, paperback, illustrated, 68 pages, some corner-creasing, covers quite soiled, internally clean, a Good reading copy.

£7.50

Stevenson, W. Iain

Henry Fawcett and Postal Reform

Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 2001

Published as a Supplement to The London Philatelist, paperback, 32 pages, illustrated, covers very slightly sunned and showing tiny signs of use, pages fine, in Good condition.

£7.50

Seymour, J.B. and Gardiner-Hill, C.

Part One The Imperforate Line-Engraved Issues

Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1967

Third edition, revised & enlarged, hardback, dustwrapper, 336 pages + illustrations, slight foxing to title-page, foxing to page-edges, a Good reading copy.

£27.00

Forrestier Smith, Peter A.

An Outline Postal History

Publisher: The East Anglia Postal History Study Circle, 1972

Paperback, comb-bound, illustrated, [iv] + 92 pages, small mark to front cover else in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Green, Doris M.

and Check List of all Issues

Publisher: privately published, 1967

Paperback, [ii] + 26 pages, with Supplement (1969), paperback, [ii] + 8 pages, slight soiling to the covers, slight rust to the staples, in Good condition.

£15.00

A Specialised Postal History and Stamp Sale

Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1970

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 28 pages, with the prices realised, tiny corner-creases to front cover else in Very Good condition.

£7.50

Postal History of the World, Airmail Covers and Adhesives

Publisher: Harmers, London, 1983

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 76 pages + xxiv plates, with the prices realised, in Good condition.

£7.50

Douglas, James

Publisher: The Scottish Postmark Group, Edinburgh, nd [circa 1980]

Second edition, large (A4) hardback, illustrated, 71 pages, slight bend to the front cover, in Good condition.

£9.50

['Besançon']

The ‘Besançon’ Collection (part IV)

Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2022

Auction catalogue, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 144 pages, text in English, with a print-out of the prices realised, in Very Good condition.

£15.00

Tabeart, Colin

An Overview of Steam Communications in the 19th Century

Publisher: privately published, 1999

Large format paperback, spiralbound, illustrated, 189 pages, yellowing to the transparent plastic front cover, pages fine, in Good condition.

£20.00

Piat Dewavrin, F.X.

by a Postal Historian

Publisher: privately published, 1997

Small (A5) paperback, illustrated, 63 pages, minor shelf-wear, corners a little rubbed, in Good condition.

£12.50

Osborn, Geoffrey

A Study of Letters Sent to and from British Royal Navy Officers Serving Abroad in the Victorian Era

Publisher: Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, Bristol, 1995

Large paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, 134 pages, tiny dent to spine, covers a little rubbed at edges and slightly creased at corners, slight shelf-wear, in Good condition.

£11.50

Stitt Dibden, W.G.

Publisher: privately published by the author, 1959

Paperback, illustrated, [i] + 21 pages + plate, few spots of foxing to front cover, in Good condition.

£13.50

Summer 2021

Publisher: Stanley Gibbons, London, 2021

Paperback, illustrated, 104 pages, in Very Good condition.

£5.00