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Post Office History

Great Britain

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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Publisher: GPO, 1958

Card covers, circa 75 pages, in Very Good condition.

£15.00

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

Publisher: GPO, London, 1964

Leaflet, single folded sheet, in Very Good condition.

£6.00

Whole Mos. 160, 163, 164, 165, 167, 170 & 172
Publisher: GPO, London, 1930-1933

Seven issues, paperback, illustrated, circa 80 pages per issue, in Very Good condition.

£30.00

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

Hill, George Birkbeck

Publisher: Thos. De La Rue & Co., London, 1880

First edition, in two volumes, hardback, original green cloth gilt, xxii + 543 pages + plates + x + 516 pages, slight hint of spine-lean to Vol 1, some pages of Vol 2 unopened (uncut along upper edges), foxing to first and last few leaves and page-edges of both volumes, in Good condition.

£50.00

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

Moss, Graham

Publisher: Scottish Postal History Society, 1988

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

£8.50

Greenwood, Jeremy

Publisher: Postal History Society, 1971

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

£12.50

Muggeridge, Sidney J.

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.

Publisher: The Postal History Society, Bath, 1961

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

£12.00

January, 1937
Publisher: G.P.O., 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

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

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

Farrugia, Jean Young

A History of Post Office Pillar and Wall Boxes
Publisher: Centaur Press, London, 1969

First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, xxi + 282 pages + plates, dustwrapper faded to spine and rubbed, book itself in Very Good condition.

£24.00

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

By Members of the Staff Past and Present
Publisher: printed for private circulation by Harrison & Sons, 1919

Large format paperback (pictorial card covers), 69 pages, illustrated, covers rubbed, corners of covers and pages creased, short tear to front cover, small marks to edges, pages generally clean, a fairly Good reading copy.

£45.00

Publisher: British, Dutch & Swiss Postal Administrations, 1952

Large format hardback, original brown cloth gilt, illustrated, xi + 154 pages + numerous folding plans and charts, some slight shelf-wear to the covers, minor signs of use, in Good condition.

£60.00

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.

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

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