Philatelic Literature

The First Annual Crawford Festival: 28th-29th June 2022

This 2-day event will be held at the RPSL, 15 Abchurch Lane, to celebrate the contribution of philatelic literature.
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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

Please read the guides concerning style and copyright on the Guides page.

Publications

RPSL Publications

Ceylon Postal Stationery
Another Look at King George V Postal Stationery Envelopes
By Graham Winters

Portuguese India - Postal History and the First Issues From the “natives” to 1900
By Luís and Eduardo Barreiros

Guide to the Postal Stationery of Iraq Second Edition

By Clayton Rubec and Akthem Al-Manaseer

The British South Africa Company King George V Admiral Stamps

By David Spivack & Stephen Reah-Johnson

The Postal History of The Ottoman Post in The Holy Land

By Zvi Aloni & Joseph Hackmey

19th Century Issues of El Salvador (1867 - 1900)

By Guillermo Gallegos FRPSL & Joseph Hahn

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.