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We specialise in all aspects of philatelic literature on a full-time basis and hold extensive stocks of second-hand and selected new titles. Below is a selection of the newest items added to the site.

Houseman, Lorna

The Story of De La Rue
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, 1968

Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, xi + 207 pages + plates, dustwrapper slightly rubbed and with a little foxing to spine, some foxing to top page-edges, internally clean, in Good condition..

£9.50

Including the Cyril Hoskins Collection of Burma Stamps and Postal History
Publisher: Cavendish, Derby, 2015

Auction catalogue, paperback, 62 pages, illustrated, in Very Good condition.

£8.50

Willcocks, R.M. and Jay, B.

Publisher: R.M. Willcocks, 1978

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, vi + 90 pages, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly rubbed and sunned to spine and with a couple of short tears, a few spots of foxing to preliminary pages, in Good condition.

£9.50

Bhatnagar, Bhagwat Sahai

Publisher: Rima Publishing House, New Delhi, 2015-16

Complete set of ten volumes, hardbacks, dustwrappers, 227 + 160 + 144 + 182 + 232 + 268 + 226 + 235 + 215 + 128 pages, minor signs of use else in Very Good condition.

£200.00

Robinson, Howard

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London, 1964

Hardback, original blue cloth, dustwrapper, 327 pages + plates, few short tears to dustwrapper, slightest hint of spine-lean, pages fine, in Good condition.

£10.00

Evans, Major E.B.

A Description of the Mulready Envelope and of Various Imitations and Caricatures of its Design; with an Account of other Illustrated Envelopes of 1840 and Following Years
Publisher: SR Publishers & Stanley Gibbons, London, 1970

Reprint, hardback, dustwrapper, viii + 240 pages, tiny tear to edge of dustwrapper, few spots of foxing to fore-edges, heavy foxing to upper page-edges, internally clean, in Good condition.

£40.00

Brown, Roland and Fisher, Harold W.

Volume II, Die 1, Plates 46 to 91
Publisher: The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 1972

Paperback, pictorial card covers, spiralbound, v + 153 pages, plating gauge in pocket at front, slight toning to the page-edges else in Very Good condition.

£50.00

Page, Robert

Publisher: A. & C. Black, London, 1970

Reprint, hardback, pictorial boards, illustrated, 64 pages, ex-school library with small label to spine, library marks, library pocket at rear, minor marks to the covers, in Good condition.

£4.50

The “Besançon” Collection
Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2022

Auction catalogue, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 208 pages, text in English, with a print-out of the prices realised, slight rippling to upper and lower margins of pages else in Very Good condition.

£18.00

Publisher: Società Anonima Cooperativa Editrice fra Filatelici Italiani, Genova, 1923

Hardback, xi + 446 pages, illustrated, text in Italian, top of spine a little rubbed, a few small marks to rear cover and to edge of last couple of pages, in Good condition.

£75.00

“Who’s Who” in the Stamp World
Publisher: H.L. Lindquist, New York, 1938

Second edition, hardback, 434 pages, illustrated, ex-Canadian Postal Museum with library bookplate inside front cover and library pocket at back, some dusty marks and slight mottling to the cover, pages fine, in Good condition.

£20.00

Dhor, J.M. and Ranjan, T.C.

Publisher: privately published, Jaipur, 1989

Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 82 pages + 8 plates, a few short tears to the dustwrapper, in Good condition.

£20.00

Johnson, Robert and Peet, Gordon

Dulac, Wilding and Machin Issues
Publisher: privately published, 2000

Large format (A4) paperback, spiralbound, 164 pages, in Very Good condition.

£25.00

Wike, R.G.

British Empire Civil Censorship Devices World War II
Publisher: Chavril Press, Scotland, 1993

Large format paperback, illustrated, 80 pages, spine slightly sunned and a little rubbed, some creasing, one or two small pen marks to pages, a Good working copy.

£11.50

Dave, Markand

Activities in India 2013-2017
Publisher: RPSL, 2018

Paperback, illustrated, [iii] + 38 pages, top of spine very slightly scuffed with tiny amount of loss else in Very Good condition.

£5.00

Bayanwala, Ashok Kumar

(1875 to 1947)
Publisher: R.A. Enterprises, New Delhi, 1982

Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 110 pages, dustwrapper a little creased and chipped at edges, ex-RPSL Library with label to spine and bookplates to front endpapers, in Good condition.

£18.00

Slingsby, John

1918-1923
Publisher: The Stuart Rossiter Trust, 2004

Large format hardback, full red leather gilt, original pictorial card covers bound in, illustrated, xvi + 234 pages, tiny dent to upper edge of covers, tiny mark to upper page-edges, else in Very Good condition.

£45.00

Davis, Gerald and Martin, Denys

Publisher: Robson Lowe, 1971

Hardback, dustwrapper, xii + 204 pages, dustwrapper spine slightly rubbed and sunned, else in Very Good condition.

£40.00

Publisher: Alan Berman, Bodmin, 2002

Auction catalogues, small format (A5) paperbacks, illustrated, 16 + 36 pages, with the prices realised for Part Six, crease to rear cover and some pen annotations to last couple of pages of Part Six, Part Seven in Very Good condition.

£15.00

[Ellott, Gerald]

Publisher: Prestige Philately, Australia, 2011

Auction catalogue, large paperback, illustrated, 106 pages, prices realised, in Very Good condition.

£15.00

Publisher: Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department, New Delhi, 1938

Hardback, black cloth gilt, v + 67 pages + plates + xiii charts + folding telephone map of India, binding slightly rubbed, ex-Sir Frank Noyce with his name in gilt to front cover [Sir Frank Noyce, KCSI, CBE (4 June 1878 – 7 October 1948) was a member of the Indian Civil Service and member of Governor General’s Executive Committee in charge of industries and labour from 1932 to 1937] and ex-India Study Circle Library with bookplate inside front cover, in Good condition.

£60.00

(With a Review of the Progress of the Department for the quinquennial period 1926-27 to 1930-31)
Publisher: Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department, New Delhi, 1932

Paperback, v + 125 pages + plates + 16 pages of charts + folding telephone map of India, spine slightly sunned, slight creasing to rear cover, mild foxing to page-edges, in Good condition.

£60.00

Part 1 Rules and Regulations Relating to the Inland Post
Publisher: Department of Posts India, 1985

Paperback, xxxi + 448 pages, bilingual text in Hindi and English, ex-India Study Circle Library with label to spine and few library marks to spine and front cover, slight spine-lean, head and foot of spine a little rubbed, tiny tear to edge of front cover, some corner-creasing, in Good condition.

£25.00

Shridharani, Krishnalal

A Century of Progress
Publisher: Posts & Telegraphs Department, New Delhi, 1953

First edition, hardback, xv + 172 pages + plates, no dustwrapper, top of spine a little rubbed, slight dusty marks and a little foxing to the page-edges, tiny dent to edge of rear cover, in Good condition.

£100.00

Virk, Brig. D.S.

Publisher: Army Postal Historical Society, New Delhi, 1980

Paperback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 222 pages, dustwrapper a little chipped at edges with loss of some tiny pieces, else in Very Good condition.

£18.00

Proud, Edward B.

Publisher: Proud-Bailey Co. Ltd., East Sussex, nd (circa 1984)

Hardback, illustrated, 686 pages, spine slightly sunned, binding a little shaken, slight dusty marks/foxing to upper page-edges, internally clean, in Good condition.

£45.00

Exhibition of the Nederlandse Academie voor Filatelie at the Royal Philatelic Society London
Publisher: Nederlandse Academie voor Filatelie, 2015

Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 56 pages, text in English, in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Harris, Albert H.

The International Philatelic Directory
Publisher: The Philatelic Magazine, London, 1928

Ninth edition, paperback, l + 184 pages, ex-Brighton & Hove Philatelic Society with their bookplate at front, small scuff to spine where a label has been, in Good condition.

£18.00

Harris, Albert H.

An Annual Biographical Directory of Stamp Collectors and Dealers in all parts of the World
Publisher: The Philatelic Magazine, London, 1918-26

Five volumes, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh & eighth editions, hardbacks, matching blue imitation morocco cloth library bindings, with gilt titles, crests and library reference numbers to spines, 88 + 91 + 134 + 128 + 140 pages, ex library with library bookplates to front pastedown-endpapers, slight wear else in Very Good condition.

£95.00