Post Office History

Harper, Charles G.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore

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.

Stevenson, W. Iain

“The Man for the Post”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Herbert, William

Illustrations of the Site and Neighbourhood of the New Post Office, Comprehending Antiquarian Notices of St. Martin’s-le-Grand, and its Liberty, and the Adjoining United Parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John, Zachary,

with an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Ancient Mourning Bush Tavern, &c. Aldersgate. and various London taverns, its contemporaries.

Publisher: Smales & Tuck, London, 1830

First edition, original green paper-covered boards, [ii] + 75 pages + 2 plates + double page hand-coloured street plan, one further plan within the text, spine worn with loss of one-inch pieces from top and foot of spine, small white stain to front cover, corners of covers worn with some loss, foxing to the frontispiece and scattered throughout, some spotting to the margins of some pages, some upper page-edges unopened (uncut), in Fair to Good condition.

£250.00

Moss, Graham

The Post Office and the Empire Exhibition, 1938

Publisher: Scottish Postal History Society, 1988

Paperback, illustrated, 60 pages, slight corner-crease, in Good condition.

£8.50

Greenwood, Jeremy

Newspapers & the Post Office 1635-1834

Publisher: Postal History Society, 1971

Paperback (card covers). comb-bound, circa 64 pages, in Very Good condition.

£12.50

Muggeridge, Sidney J.

The Postal History of Maidstone and the surrounding Villages

together with notes on their Postal Markings

Publisher: The Postal History Society, 1972

Large format paperback, illustrated, 34 pages, tiny signs of use else in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Stitt Dibden, W.G. and Tebbutt, L.

Stamford Postal History

Publisher: The Postal History Society, Bath, 1961

Paperback, illustrated, 49 pages + plates, spine sunned else in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Post Office Guide

January, 1937

Publisher: Post Office, London, 1937

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.

£24.00

Post Office 1950

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

British Postal Guide 1857

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

List of Travelling Post Offices, Sorting Carriages and Bag Tenders

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

The Post Office Magazine

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.

Monarchs of All they Surveyed

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

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

Post Office Uniforms

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

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