Due to the move and the crazy size of the previous post that was here - i have removed the previous listings..
please fee free to post an updated list of your library if you care to share..
HOLY monster post!! thank you Janet.. let us open this up to debate.. would members rather start this one fresh or keep the old content?
If I can muddle through it just about anybody can. I vote keep.
I vote keep it. A lot of work went into listing all those catalogs, volumes, lists, etc.
I want to post my own modest list - it will probably have up to 20 items in it.
Last Edit: Aug 7, 2013 20:30:53 GMT -5 by kannik: I accidentally sent the message twice - once is enough!
if yo click post 2x it doubles. no worries.
ok keep it we will .. Janet can you please edit out the headers and junk? perhaps put a line or something between the members posts?
My library isn't all that extensive... got to work on it some time.
And yes... it REALLY needs updating.
These plus some 100+ monographs were in a box lot I bought at auction at less than the cost of any one of the books above.
Standard Stamp catalogue of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei- Steven Tan 2010-2012 (28th Ed).
SG (1 country) Malaysia and Singapore.3rd Ed 2010.
SG Stamps of the World 2007. (5 vols).
The Numeral Cancels of Victoria- Freeman and White.
The Stamps of Victoria- G.Kellow.
Several small publications on Machine Cancels.in Aust.
Postal Stationery of the Commonwealth of Aust Parts 1-5 -BC Darke.
The Stamps of the Comm. of Aust. Rosenblum 1947.
The VG perfins (Victorian Govt.) Brian Toop.
USPS USA-Postal service Guide to US Stampps 2006.
GB The numerical postmarks of London.
Papua- NewGuinea: the story behind the stamp Dec. Stamps 1966-82 j. Bentley.
Franklins Guide to the Stamps of PNG. M.Franklin.
Yes, please let`s keep the name of the contributor with it as it is now.
the best place to look for these books anyway, these days!
Last Edit: Aug 23, 2013 23:14:11 GMT -5 by kannik: Just added "Librarian kannik"
I recently ordered a used copy of Scott US Specialized Catalogue 2010 from Amazon. It should be here this coming week.
As people post their library here, we can edit the original post to remove the area in it as there is an update here, that will slowly reduce the OP.
I wish it had transferred over better than it did.
Don't worry Janet... was a dash to get over what we could. Any Mod or Admin can edit the post once a member has posted here. I know I did when I postest my library.
or we can wipe it and invite people to post them anew? some members represented above are no longer with us.
Also, three "The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps" (1981, 1987, and 1988) issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Besides being a good reference for the amount of stamps printed (and the regular stuff found in stamp catalogs), it also has very well written little snippets of factoids about the designs, subjects, histories, and such of American Stamps. Which, in most cases, are why we collect stamps. Right?
"How to Detect Damaged, Altered, and Repaired Stamps," by Paul W. Schmid. This book is for the CSI lovers. Note: he only explains how to detect and not how to damage, alter or repair. My copy is a 1996 reissue of a 1978 book.
Stephen R. Datz wrote the "2001 Catalogue of Errors on U.S. Postage Stamps." This guy didn't divey up to Scott, so there's no Scott numbers. It's a good accumulation of perforation errors, blind perforations errors, color-omitted errors, freaks and oddities. My copy is the tenth edition (2000) published by Krause Publications.
A witty 1999 book written by Paul S. Greenlaw, Ph.D. (in collaboration with Martin Sellinger) is "Affordable Foreign Errors on Postage Stamps of the World." If I ever start a topical collection of errors on postage stamps, this book would be invalueable. It lists all known errors, by country, that has a market value of less than $200 or less (as of 1999, of course).
That's enough, 'cause I'm not going to mention the eleven years worth of "Stamp Yearbook" I get from one of my daughters every year for Christmas. (Every year I tell her to save her money and buy me something cheaper, but just like when she was little she still doesn't listen to me.) Some of the stories about the stamps, designs, designers, etc. are interesting and they look nice on my bookshelf. However, the people at the include the stamps in this U.S. Postal Service package are not stamp collectors. What stamp collector would ever use scissors to get at a self-adhesive booklet stamp?
That's it, except for the stacks and stacks of Lynn's Stamp News. At least they are neatly stacked (sort of).
I don't see any names in the large post that was copied over from the old boards. I do see several posts that were mine, but just to make it easier I thought I would post my current list, the one from the old post didn't have everything anyway.
The rest of these are all digitized books or publications that I found searching around on the internet and found interesting enough to keep a copy of.
2011 How to Build a Philatelic Exhibit, by American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, Inc.
I had to look for some old catalogs past couple of days and took the opportunity to update my library list. If anybody needs any info from them or has any questions about them, please feel free to PM and ask.
Below is a list of my catalogs. The list of books will appear in a subsequent post.
I have now put catalog year (not publishing year) in square brackets and starting to put edition numbers in parentheses within the square brackets.
When not obvious from the title, I have put the country/region/specialty in curly braces.
My library is open for your reference.