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Great Britain

Feldman, Hugh

A history of their offices and handstamps within the General, Penny and Twopenny Posts
Publisher: The Stuart Rossiter Trust & the Postal History Society, 1998

Two large hardback volumes in slipcase, illustrated, 900+ pages, folding maps in pocket at rear, minor blemishes to the slipcase else in Very Good condition.

£45.00

Bristow, Maurice H.

1851-1936
Publisher: London Postal History Group, London, 1983

Large format (A4) paperback (card covers), illustrated, [x] + 65 pages + 44 plates, slight signs of wear, in Good condition.

£15.00

Lillywhite, Bryant

A Reference Book of London Signs from Earliest Times to about the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1972

First edition, hardback, original green cloth gilt, dustwrapper, xx + 696 pages + plates, in Very Good condition.

£40.00

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

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

Robertson, Alan W.

Publisher: Robson Lowe Ltd., London, 1960

Large format hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, interleaved, 68 pages, dustwrapper in Poor condition with dusty marks, numerous tears and loss of some pieces, a little foxing to the endpapers, corner-crease to front endpaper, in Good condition.

£24.00

Herbert, William

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

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

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

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

Cohen, Stanley F.

Publisher: Harry Hayes, Batley, 1983

First edition, large format (A4) paperback, 34 pages, illustrated, a couple of tiny blemishes to the covers else in Very Good condition.

£6.50

Cohen, Stanley F.

(Early Combined Daters and Obliterators of 1880-1909)
Publisher: Harry Hayes, Batley, 1984

First edition, large format (A4) paperback, 27 pages, illustrated, in Very Good condition.

£6.50