Philatelic Literature Specialists

Great Britain

Cohen, Stanley F. and Barette, Maurice; Hine, John; and Williams, A.M.

Part II – The London Offices
Publisher: privately published, Malaga, 2006

Second edition, large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 215 pages, some small dents to the page-edges and to edge of rear cover, corner-crease to rear cover and last few pages, a Good working copy.

£25.00

Swarbrick, Bob

Home and Abroad, A Postal History 1664-1994
Publisher: The Stuart Rossiter Trust, 2006

Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, x + 162 pages, one or two tiny blemishes else in Very Good condition.

£24.00

Gwynn, Robin and Hoggarth, Norman

Publisher: The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, 2010

Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, iii + 322 pages, in Very Good+ condition.

£60.00

Clark, Rex

A Guide to the High Postage Rates in Great Britain and their Reform, 1812-1840
Publisher: privately published by the author, 2009

First edition, large format paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, viii + 262 pages, in Fine unused condition.

£20.00

Rowse, David

May-December 1840
Publisher: Great Britain Philatelic Society, 2000

Large hardback, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, 180 pages, in Very Good+ condition.

£75.00

Leonard, John

Publisher: Harris Publications, London, 1958

Large format paperback (laminated card covers), illustrated, 43 pages, toning and slight bend to the covers, scuff to the front cover with some loss of the laminated surface, slight toning to the page-edges, a Good reading copy.

£15.00

Meredith, C.W. and Kidd, Cyril

Light is shed on the “Posted in Advance” Scheme for Delivery on Christmas Day, 1902-9
Publisher: R.C. Alcock, Cheltenham, 1954

A Philatelic Adviser Handbook, paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, 24 pages, a few slight marks to the covers, small corner-crease, in Good condition.

£6.50

Marsh, Victor [pseudonym of H. Edgar Weston] and Van Gelder, Peter (editor)

Publisher: The Postal Stationery Society, 1998

75th Anniversary edition, paperback, illustrated, 32 pages, sunning (fading) to the spine area of the covers else in Very Good condition.

£7.50

Weston, H. Edgar

Publisher: British Guiana Philatelic Society, Georgetown, 1920

First edition, reprinted from “The British Guiana Philatelic Journal” December 1919, 8 pages + 2 plates, covers a little soiled, tiny piece missing from lower edge of front cover, in Good condition.

£21.00

Weston, H. Edgar and Van Gelder, Peter (editor)

Publisher: The Postal Stationery Society, 2003

New edition, privately bound with cloth-covered card covers, gilt lettering to front cover, illustrated, 20 pages, ex libris Brian Birch with his bookplate inside front cover, in Very Good condition.

£12.00

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

Willcocks, R.M.

With notes on Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Publisher: privately published by the author, 1975

Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, viii + 167 pages, some small marks and wear to the dustwrapper, foxing to the page-edges, in Good condition.

£15.00

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