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Some of our books are now available at half their original list prices.
These are detailed below.
Please note there is no change to the postage costs applied to each item.

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. (Orders can be made by clicking on the book's cover shown below, or directly via the Royal’s web site www.rpsl.org.uk, and click on 'Shop').
 
Click on the picture of a book cover for more information.

 

Click here to view a list of all the RPSL Books that have been published since 1873.

 

Ted Proud Books

Edward (Ted) Proud, the founder of Proud-Bailey philatelic dealers, wrote a large number of standard books on the postal history of Commonwealth countries, together with other key texts. When he died, he left the stock of his books to the Royal Philatelic Society London.

 

Click here to view the Edward Proud books for sale.

Virtual Stampex Publications

RPSL Virtual Stampex Publications

Forgeries of the Great Britain 2s Brown of 1880

by Bob Galland FRPSL & Karl-Albert Louis FRPSL

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The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond

by J. Kenneth Snelson and Robert B. Galland FRPSL

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

by Robert C. Stein FRPSL

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

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Stockholmia Catalogue and Stockholmia Library Catalogue

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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 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.

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

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

by Brian Trotter RDP FRPSL

The 1836 Anglo-French Postal Convention

by Geoffrey Lewis FRPSL

Bahamas – Stamps and Postal Stationery to 1970

by Peter Fernbank FRPSL