Our Publications

Our books describe in-depth authoritative research on particular stamp issues, aspects of postal history, or other philately-related matters. The gallery below lists the books currently available for sale, together with some sample pages from each book and details on how to order them.

All the Society's current publications can be purchased from the online Shop.
Orders to outside the UK may incur customs or other charges. This situation is beyond the control of The RPSL and all such charges will need to be met by the recipient.

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Contact the Publications Committee

The Publications Committee is always ready to consider new works, and encourages authors and potential authors to get in touch. Send an e-mail to the Publications Committee Chairman at publicationschairman@rpsl.org.uk

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Publications

RPSL Publications

Postal Routes to the Dutch Possessions in West Africa, West Indies and Suriname 1652 to 1919: A Guide to Dutch Maritime Mail

By Sven Påhlman FRPSL

The 1840 Embossed Wyon -Whiting Essays Their Genesis and Subsequent Influence on British Postal Stationery

By Alan Huggins RDP Hon. FRPSL & Anthony Wicks

Rhodesian Philately to 1924
By Brian Trotter RDP FRPSL, Colin Hoffman RDPSA FRPSL
and Pat Flanagan RDPSA FRPSL

The Inks of De La Rue & Co. and their introduction of synthetic and aniline ingredients c.1850–1910

By Peter Young FRPSL

Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail: Censorship and the LATI Substitute

By John Wilson and Frank Walton RDP FRPSL

A Jubilee Reminiscence
by John Davies FRPSL

International Postal Reforms. (In 2 Volumes)
by James L. Grimwood-Taylor RDP FRPSL

Ceylon: The Pence issues
by Kurt Kimmel RDP FRPSL & Patrick Pearson VRD RDP Hon FRPSL

The Postal History of the Universal Postal Union:
The Postal Card (Worldwide) 1869-1974

by James Peter Gough RDP FRPSL

Tibet Stamps & Postal History

by Steve Chazen and Danny Wong FRPSL

A History of The Royal Philatelic Society London 1869 to 2019

Edited by Charles Oppenheim FRPSL

The Court Bureau: A London Company and its Stamps 1889-1891
by Vincent West FRPSL

The Fathers of Philately
Inscribed on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
by Brian J Birch FRPSL

Royal Philatelic Society London Members' Collections 2019

Edited by Mark W Bailey FRPSL and Frank L Walton RDP FRPSL.

British King George V Definitive, Profile Head and Seahorse Stamps Overprinted for NAURU

by Robert C. Stein FRPSL

The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond
by J. Kenneth Snelson and Robert B. Galland FRPSL

The Paper Trail: World War II in Holland and its Colonies
as seen through Mail and Documents

by Kees Adema RDP FRPSL and Jeffrey Groeneveld.

Perkins Bacon Great Britain Line-Engraved Postage Stamp Printing 1840 to 1846

by Alan Druce FRPSL

Forgeries of the Great Britain 2s Brown of 1880

by Bob Galland FRPSL & Karl-Albert Louis FRPSL

Southern African Mails, Routes, Rates and Regulations 1806–1916

by Brian Trotter RDP FRPSL