Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail: Censorship and the LATI Substitute is a fascinating account of how the USA and UK co-operated during World War II to run a censorship and intelligence-gathering operation on mail travelling between the Axis countries in Europe and countries in Latin America with pro-Axis sympathies.

In 1889 a general opinion was expressed that the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of Uniform Penny Postage in Great Britain “ought not to be allowed to pass without some indication of the feelings, which must actuate all who looked back at the great reform introduced in 1840”. Arrangements were made for various Jubilee celebrations to be held in 1890. Although a plan for a commemorative stamp was initiated, it was later abandoned.

Volume 1: Postal Reforms and the Historical Background to the Postage Stamp 1550-1839
Volume 2: The Birth of the Postage Stamp and its International Effects 1840 to 1898

Volume 1: Postal Reforms and the Historical Background to the Postage Stamp 1550-1839
Volume 2: The Birth of the Postage Stamp and its International Effects 1840 to 1898

This is a slipcase to hold the two volume copy of International Postal Reform (above)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the stamps of Ceylon, their uses, their printings and varieties. It also covers the postal stationery, being the earliest stationery issued by any of the British Colonies, as well as the revenue stamps, reprints and forgeries.

A two volume book on the postal card, from its very beginnings to its virtual end in the 1970's, this provides a postal history of the evolution of “when, what and why” of postal cards and how they related to each other in sequences of time worldwide vis-a-vis philosophical approaches, rules, regulations and rates.

This is a slipcase to hold the two volume copy of The Postal Card (above).

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A two volume book on the postal card, from its very beginnings to its virtual end in the 1970's, this provides a postal history of the evolution of “when, what and why” of postal cards and how they related to each other in sequences of time worldwide vis-a-vis philosophical approaches, rules, regulations and rates.