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Books on philately for sale. I mostly stock out of print titles but act as agent for the British West Indies Study Circle and the British Caribbean Study Group.
Post and packing is extra. Please note that for bulky (2kg +) overseas orders I can offer very cheap airmail postage as I have a contract with Royal Mail which makes the cost little more than for inland orders.
;) | REDGROVE H. Stanley The Air Mails of the British Isles. - The story of their development from the venture of the Great Western Railway in 1933 to the outbreak of the war with Germany. Privately printed (1940) 150pp + plates. 1st ed., with tipped in obituary of the author on blank inner, clean in original cloth. Very scarce. | £65.00 |
;) | WARD C.W. Scottish T.P.O.'s. - Their history and postmarks. Published by the author (1947) 28pp. 1st ed. Fine in original blue card covers. 7.5 x 10" | £6.00 |
;) | SUSSEX Vivien J. and SHELTON Sidney S. Continental Mail Service 1793-1815 especially by Yarmouth packet boat. East Anglia Postal History Study Circle (1978) 95 large pp. 1st ed., clean in spiral ring binding. | £18.00 |
;) | HORRY David The Riddle of the ‘Registered’ Ovals of Jamaica and Trinidad 1949 – 1962 B.W.I.S.C. (2017) xxii + 224 large pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. In March 2015 David Horry won a Julian Chapman Scholarship, via The Royal Philatelic Society London to travel to Jamaica and try to get to the bottom of this fascinating mystery. What he has discovered may change the way we view the use of the Colonial mails in a period before telephone tapping and hacking became the norm. The Cold War was warming up, just as the sun was slowly setting on the British Empire: and the so-called ‘Registered’ Ovals started their intriguing life as instruments of surveillance! | £20.00 |
;) | COCKRILL Philip and GOTTSPENN Arno German Seepost cancellations 1886-1939 - Parts 1 & 2 Cockrill Series booklets 46-47 (1987 (circa)) 2 vols. bound in full calf retaining original card covers. Fine. | £75.00 |
;) ;) | BLAU Fred F. and DEIGHTON Cyril The Orient Flight L.Z. 127-Graf Zeppelin. Germany Philatelic Society, Inc (1980) 135pp. 1st ed., fine in original blue boards. Illustrated history of the Graf Zeppelin airship and its flight from Northern Europe to the Holy Land in 1929. | £80.00 |
;) | BEVEREN Frans J. van Introducing Combi-Mail – Aeropostal History. Detail Topical Stamp Catalogues (1997) 256pp + loose erratum slip. 1st ed., fine in pictorial boards. Extensive whole world study of postal markings found on commercial airmails. | £14.00 |
;) | COCKRILL Phillip Shipping Companies. Published by the author (1979-82) 6 booklets bound in one full calf volume. Fine. Studies of the Elder Dempster Lines, Woermann Line, Netherlands Shipping Co., Royal Netherlands S.S. Co, United Fruit Company and Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (K.P.M.) with Java- China - Japan Line. Mostly concerning postal markings. | £80.00 |
;) | ANON The notebook of an amateur collector of early souvenirs of the air post. - With illustrations from a private collection. Italy. Harrison & Sons (1938 Circa) 71 large pp + 30 plates. 1st ed., fine in original slightly stained cloth. A very elusive work on the history of Italian air mails. | £55.00 |
;) ;) | BOULAD D'HUMIERES J. and RINGSTROM S. & TESTER H.E. The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World. - Part 3. The Suez Canal Company. L.H. Hartmann, Kentucky (1985) 285 large pp + loose folding plate. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Includes tipped in facsimile sheetlet of the stamps. | £45.00 |
;) | CONNELL G.W. The private ship letter stamps of the World. - Part 4, the letter and parcel stamps of the Finnish shipping companies. Finnish Philatelic Federation (1993) 174 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Well illustrated study with fine colour plates. | £40.00 |
;) | 2008 (13 Nov) British Empire stamps and covers Spink 166pp + PR. Fine. Fine British Solomon Is., Gilbert & Ellis Is. and New Zealand. | £6.00 |
;) | 2007 (26 July) British Empire stamps and covers Spink 245pp + PR. Fine. Fine New Zealand and Tasmania. | £6.00 |
;) | 2008 (11 Nov) A Journey of Ingenuity. 4000 years of written communication and mail delivery Harmers 94pp. Fine. Classic cover rarities. | £5.00 |
;) | 2010 (6 Mar) John Williams collection of stamps of the reign of King Edward VII. Prestige Philately 119 large pp. Fine hardbound catalogue. | £6.00 |
;) | 1986 (28 Oct) Australasia. - Includes Michael Burberry New Zealand postal history, William Mitchell N.S.W. and Purves Victoria. Christie's Robson Lowe 60pp + PR. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | CUMMINGS Rev H. The College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge. - A study of their history and use from 1870 to 1886. Oxford (1900 (circa)) 109pp + adverts. 1st ed., clean in slightly worn original cloth. | £60.00 |
;) | 2014 (17 June) Rhodesia featuring Arms and Admiral issues from the Vestey collection. Spink 77pp. Fine. | £8.00 |
;) | 2011 (16 Dec) Gerald Ellott collection of Royal Navy Mail. Prestige Philately 106 large pp. Fine. | £8.00 |
;) | MICHAEL John British Empire Stamp Auction Catalogues for Provenance 1921-2002 Spink (2003) 59pp. 1st ltd ed., no. 136 of 300 copies, fine in card covers. | £25.00 |
Links to other Philatelic Sites
American Philatelic Society
(Monthly journal on all aspects of stamp collecting and the largest society in the World)
The Postal History of Austria
http://die.geocity.de/t.berger/APH/APHerfr.htm
(Good listing of online philatelic resources plus useful information)
Bermuda Collectors Society
http://www.bermudacollectorssociety.com
(Regular journal with articles on stamps and postal history)
British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group
(Regular journal with articles on stamps and postal history plus meetings around the world.)
British West Indies Study Circle
(Quarterly bulletin plus occasional meetings in London and elsewhere in the U.K.)
Charles Cwiakala Auction Agent
Website details all of the upcoming month's public philatelic auctions with links to the more than 240 major worldwide Philatelic Auctioneers' E-Mail Addresses and Websites.
King George VI Collectors' Society
New website for this study group.
Stamps of India
Philatelic hub with fine resources for all aspects of Indian philately.