Philatelic Literature Specialists

The Americas

U.S. Official Postal Guide

U.S. Official Postal Guide, July 1951

Part 1 Domestic
Publisher: US Post Office Dept., Washington DC, 1951

Hardback, original grey cloth, vii + 784 pages, some foxing to spine and to upper page-edges, slight bump to corner of rear cover, in Good condition.

£20.00

Salles, Raymond

Tome IV Les Paquebots de l’Atlantique Nord, Antilles-Amérique Centrale et Pacifique Sud, États-Unis
Publisher: privately published by the author, 1965

First edition, paperback (cloth-covered card covers), illustrated, 301 pages, text in French, ex libris Harry Sutherland with his bookplate inside front cover, also ex-National Archives of Canada with their bookplate inside front cover and library label to spine, pages very lightly tanned, spine very slightly rubbed, in Good condition.

£24.00

Loeb, Marcelo and Howat, Jeremy

Volumen II Adolfo Kapelusz y Cia 1907-1924
Publisher: privately published, Buenos Aires, 1992

Large format paperback, pictorial card covers, xii + 218 pages, illustrated, bilingual text in English & Spanish, some marks to front cover, spine and covers slightly rubbed, in Good condition.

£20.00

Loeb, Marcelo and Howat, Jeremy

Roberto Rosauer 1901-1909
Publisher: privately published, Buenos Aires, 1992

Large format paperback, rebound with comb-binding retaining the original pictorial card covers, vii + 118 pages, illustrated, bilingual text in English & Spanish, the author Jeremy Howat’s own copy with his initials to front cover and numerous manuscript additions to the text, a Good working copy.

£15.00

[Dale/Lichtenstein]

United States, British Commonwealth, German States & Foreign
Publisher: Harmers, New York, 1992

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 32 pages, with the prices realised, mild shelfwear else in Very Good condition.

£10.00

Woodward, P.H.

Publisher: Sanford J. Durst, New York, 1978

Reprint, hardback, 583 pages, illustrated, ex-Canada Postal Museum with library label to spine, bookplate inside front cover and library pocket inside rear cover, tiny mark to page fore-edges, else in Very Good condition.

£12.50

Rich, Wesley Everett

Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA, 1924

First edition, hardback, vii + 190 pages, ex-Canada Postal Museum with library label to spine and library bookplates to the front endpapers, small repair to title-page, else in Very Good condition.

£25.00

Granville, Joseph Ensign

Publisher: H.L. Lindquist, New York, 1947

Third edition, two volumes, hardback, 174 + 94 pages, ex-Canada National Postal Museum with library label to spine/front covers, bookplate inside front covers and library pockets inside rear covers, also ex-RPSL Library with library bookplate to front free-endpapers, else in Very Good condition.

£15.00

Publisher: Theron Wierenga, Michigan, 1979

Two volumes, hardback, circa 400+ pages + folding table in pocket, ex-Canada National Postal Museum with library labels to spines, bookplate inside front covers and library pockets inside rear covers, else in Very Good condition.

£50.00

Grant, Robert W.

Volume 1
Publisher: privately published, 1977

Looseleaf pages in binder, circa 250 pages, illustrated, ex-Canada National Postal Museum with library label to spine and bookplate inside front cover, else in Very Good condition.

£45.00

1939-1945
Publisher: The Printer's Stone, NY, circa 1990

Large format paperback (laminated card covers), comb-bound, xvi + 277 pages, very slight wear to the edges of the covers, a little foxing to the page-edges, in Good condition.

£20.00

[Landini, Adriano]

The Adriano Landini Collection
Publisher: Spink, London, 2012

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 89 pages, text in English, with the prices realised, slight corner-creasing else in Very Good condition.

£8.50

Cockrill, Philip

Part I Transatlantic Routes & Part II Trans-Pacific, Central & South American Routes
Publisher: Privately published, nd

The two booklets bound in one volume, publisher’s library edition, in dark green full leather binding with gold tooling, raised bands and leather labels to spine, illustrated, 84 + 88 pages, a few blemishes to the covers, some slight foxing to card covers and page edges, in Good condition.

£40.00

[Peinado, Augusto]

Publisher: Harmers, London, 2000

Auction catalogue, large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 67 pages, in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Hosking, Roger

Publisher: privately published, 1979

Large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 19 pages, signed dedication from the author to the previous owner, crease to rear cover and slight shelfwear, in Good condition.

£8.50

Kay, John L. and Smith, Chester M. Jr.

The Post Offices and First Postmasters from 1776-1976
Publisher: Quarterman, 1977

Hardback, dustwrapper, 199 pages, ex-National Archives of Canada Library with label to spine and bookplate inside front cover, edges of dustwrapper slightly chipped, slight signs of spine-lean, in Good condition.

£10.00

Kay, John L. and Smith, Chester M. Jr.

The Post Offices and First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980
Publisher: American Philatelic Society, 1982

Hardback, 556 pages, ex-Canadian Postal Museum Library with label to spine, bookplate inside front cover and library pocket inside rear cover, in Good condition.

£20.00

[Caspary, Alfred H.]

Publisher: H.R. Harmer, New York, 1957

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 103 pages, Forewords by Ezra Cole & Lawrence Shenfield, with the prices realised, in Very Good condition.

£20.00

Horowicz, Kay and Lowe, Robson

Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1967

Paperback, illustrated, 52 pages, ex Canada Postal Museum with label to front cover, bookplate to front pastedown endpaper and library pocket to rear endpaper, some corner-creasing, in Good condition.

£7.50

Oakley, Bruce C.

Stampless Period 1799-1860 [Volume 1]
Publisher: Magnolia Publishers, Mississippi, 1969

Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 290 pages, two short tears to the rear panel of the dustwrapper, ex Canadian Postal Museum with bookplate to front endpaper and library pocket to rear endpaper, pages fine, in Good condition.

£25.00

Kutz, Kenneth J.

Publisher: Gold Fever Publishing, Connecticut, 1987

Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, x + 400 pages, dustwrapper worn with some soiling and tears with a small amount of loss, book itself in Very Good condition.

£25.00

Publisher: Postiljonen, Denmark, 2005

Large format paperback, illustrated, 189 pages, text in English (some articles in other languages with English translations), spine a little sunned, slight shelfwear, else in Very Good condition.

£35.00

Publisher: Postiljonen, Denmark, 2004

Large format paperback, illustrated, 200 pages, text in English (some articles in other languages with English translations), spine a little sunned, slight creasing to front cover, else in Very Good condition.

£35.00

Gallegos, Guillermo F.

Publisher: privately published, 2017

Paperback, illustrated, 28 pages, in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Schwartz, Mark

Publisher: privately published, 2019

Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 30 pages, in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Burge, Richard (Editor)

Publisher: Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, 1989

Paperback (card covers), illustrated 276 pages, ex Society Library with label to spine and small library marks to title-page, spine rubbed, covers slightly creased, fore-edges slightly marked, a Good reading copy.

£28.00

Kobylanski, Juan K. and Casal, Elias

Tomo I & II
Publisher: Mundus, 1984-86

Two volumes, hardback, illustrated, 155 + 178 pages, text in Spanish, ex National Archives of Canada with label to spine and library bookplate to front endpaper of both volumes, else in Very Good condition.

£60.00

Harris, Leo J. and Bargholtz, Percy and Paez T., Rodrigo

Historia Postal y Catálogo de Marcas Prefilatélicas
Publisher: The Collectors Club, New York, 1984

Second edition, hardback, illustrated, xi + 35 + 98 pages, bilingual text in English & Spanish, ex National Archives of Canada with label to spine and library bookplate to front endpaper, in Good condition.

£22.00