The first Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue was a penny price list issued in November 1865 and reissued at monthly intervals for the next 14 years. The company produces numerous catalogues covering different countries, regions and specialisms; many of them are reissued annually. The catalogues list all known adhesive postage stamp issues and include prices for used and unused stamps. Stamp prices Unlike other dealers' catalogues, Stanley Gibbons state that their catalogue is a retail price list. In other words, if they had that exact stamp in stock in the exact condition specified, the current catalogue price is the price that they would charge for it. This contrasts with most other catalogues which are produced by firms that do not sell stamps and therefore base their pricing on an average of market values in the country where the catalogue is published. In practice, the actual price charged by Stanley Gibbons for an individual stamp may be different from the catalogue price because the specimen for sale is of a different grade, the market conditions have changed since the catalogue was produced, the firm has a plentiful or restricted supply of that stamp, or for a variety of other reasons. Catalogue range The range includes the following catalogues: Simplified Catalogues Stamps of the World. (An annual catalogue, first published in 1934, now in six volumes listing stamps from every country in the world.) and its regional subsets: Africa, 1st edition (2010) Asia Volume 1, 1st edition (2010) Commonwealth, 5th edition (2013) Western Europe, 2nd edition (2012) Regional Catalogues Antarctica, 2nd edition (2012) North America, 1st edition (2010) North-East Africa, 2nd edition (2017) United Nations, 1st edition (2010) Comprehensive Catalogues Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps, 1840-1970. (This annual lists stamps from 1840 only till 1970. Sometimes known as 'Part 1'.) Also, its chronological subsets: King George V Stamp Catalogue, 1st edition (2010) King George VI Stamp Catalogue, 9th edition (2018) Elizabethan Specialised Catalogue of Modern British Commonwealth Stamps, 21st edition (1985) Individual standard catalogues for Commonwealth countries. (The same content as Part 1 but up to date.) Australia, 12th edition (2022). A concise edition was published in 1989. Bangladesh, Burma, Pakistan & Sri Lanka, 3rd edition (2015) Belize, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, 1st edition (2009) Brunei, Malaysia & Singapore, 5th edition (2017) Canada & Provinces, 7th edition (2020) Central Africa, 2nd edition (2008) Cyprus, Gibraltar & Malta, 5th edition (2019) East Africa with