Colby sylvester (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 256 pp. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN:67-27919 ; color pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; Contents: British colonials, Die I, Die II -- Reading and using a stamp catalogue -- US Types illustrated --- Danish inverted framelines -- Philatelic oddities -- Imperial Russian stamps and the revolution 1917-22 -- Trident overprints -- Postal systems during wartime -- War tax stamps -- Stamps negotiable as coins -- Certificate of guarantee -- They look alike.but -- Philatelically illustrated.did you know? -- Imperial Chinese Post -- Chalon Portrait of Queen Victoria -- Buckley portrait of Queen Victoria -- Pigeon post -- Balloon post of Paris -- Peacock overprint--Japanese occupation of Burma -- Stamp illustrations and identifications -- Stamp illustrations and identifications -- Alphabets and numerals -- Philatelic Glossary -- Philatelic gazetteer -- Spanish Civil War Names -- Maps of stamp issuing areas -- Lithography (Offset printing) -- Line engraving -- Gumming of stamps -- Collecting postal stationery -- Topical stamp collecting -- Kinderpost Mail -- Philatelic literature -- Stamp clubs -- Bibliography -- Index ; extremely obscure information on stamp collecting would baffle Alex Trebek and friends--example : For the clue, "Arvizkarosultaknak kulon", Alex would have to reply: "What is the inscription in the label below the design of the stamp of Hungary issued in 1913 which translates as "For the flood sufferers, extra"?--see page 173--fascinating information from the Great Barrier Pigeonpost Agency of New Zealand in 1908 to the General Artigas stamp surcharge in Uruguay in 1911 for the memory of the Father of the Uruguayan Republic . Book.…

Full Leather Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Catalogues of sales, nicely bound in burgundy leather with gilt stamping. Includes: the Alfred R. Bingham Collection, Nov. 30, 1950; the H.R. Corbin Collection, April 25 and 26, 1951; the W.R. King Library, Dec. 12, 1950; General Sale, Oct. 26, 1953; the Edward Stern Library, June 17 and 18, 1952; the Ralph Archibald Kimble Library, Dec. 19, 1953; and the King Farlow Library, May 14, 1953. Size: Large Octavo. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. The three sales, bound in orange cloth, with gilt titles. Prices realized laid in, along with contemporaneous clippings of Ward's obituary. Faint newsprint shadow on front end papers from clippings. Size: Large Octavo.