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West, Vincent

The Court Bureau. A London Company and its Stamps 1889-91

Publisher: Royal Philatelic Society London, 2019

Paperback, pictorial card covers, xii + 99 pages, tiny scuff to spine, minor shelf-wear else in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Feldman, Hugh

Letter Receivers of London 1652 to 1857

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

Lillywhite, Bryant

London Signs

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

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

Parmenter, John

London Late Fee and Too Late Mail

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.

Post Office (London) Railway

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.

A Pioneer British Air Mail, Bath-London, 1912

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.

Squared Circle Postmarks of the London Suburban District Offices

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.

London Fancy Geometric Postmarks

(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

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