Philatelic Literature Specialists

Great Britain

Victor Marsh's Great Britain: Abnormal Embossed Postage Stamps of King Edward VII and King George V
Marsh, Victor [pseudonym of H. Edgar Weston] and Van Gelder, Peter (editor)

Victor Marsh’s Great Britain: Abnormal Embossed Postage Stamps of King Edward VII and King George V

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

Godinas, François

Publisher: La Philatélie Campinoise, Turnhout, 1953

First edition, paperback, illustrated, 107 pages, text in French, ex-RPSL and Canadian Postal Museum Libraries with library label to front cover, library bookplates inside front cover and library pocket inside rear cover, some damage to spine with tape-repair at top, a Good working copy.

£8.50

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

[Littaur, Gavin]

comprising rare and beautiful gems from an International Large Gold Medal Exhibit
Publisher: Harmers, London, 1981

Auction catalogue, hardback, illustrated, 81 pages, with the prices realised, in Very Good condition.

£10.00

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

"Chartwell" [Cripps, Sir Humphrey]

Vol. 6: Great Britain King George V including Seahorses
Publisher: Spink, London, 2012

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 245 pages, slight shelfwear else in Very Good condition.

£16.00

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

Greenwood, Jeremy

The Chichester Branch 1250-1840
Publisher: privately published, 1973

First edition, paperback, illustrated, 110 pages, in Very Good condition.

£10.00

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

Fasching, Hans Jörg

Volume 2 Prestige Stamp Books
Publisher: Modern British Philatelic Circle, Nottingham, 2013

Eighth edition, loose-leaf pages binder, vi + 661 pages, illustrated, in Very Good condition.

£30.00

Eyre, Graham

British Decimal Self-adhesive Postage Stamp Books
Publisher: Modern British Philatelic Circle, Nottingham, 2008

First edition, with 1st supplement, loose-leaf pages in two binders, hundreds of pages, illustrated, in Very Good condition.

£25.00

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

Strong, A. Charles

Publisher: privately published by the author, 2000-2001

Two volumes, hardback, illustrated, circa 150 & 120 pages, in Very Good condition.

£65.00

Publisher: Stanley Gibbons, London, 1998

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 24 pages, with the prices realised, in Very Good condition.

£6.50

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