Thunder before lightning: The pony express in stamp and glory : an original postamp series by Robert Lash Robbins

Very Good. Stapled wraps. np, c1950(author), green stapled wraps about 5x8½", VG(top third of spine crease split), 17 pages, "An Original Poststamp Series - 50 Stories of Berkeley Today", " A Letter to: Middletown, U.S.A.", 50 stamps pasted in place with their stories, BERKELEY LOCAL HISTORY; A6743 D5D .

Robert Lash Robbins, 1950. paperback. about very good condition with some soiling to the rear- 35 of 50 stamps are pasted in- the olther 15 stamps are missing

Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Co. B0007HOUES Unnumbered limited first edition 1948 booklet. Good. Name on front cover and first page, otherwise very good with little wear. 100 unique colored numbered stamps adhered in the text with brief sketches of their various topics, anyone of which could have been a US commemorative issue. These may very well be the only surviving copies. A partial list: #1 the ephrata lily, #2 William Penn, #3 early missionaries in the Perkiomen valley, #4 old swedes house, #5 consider the lily, #6 Lincoln homestead, #7 Conrad Weiser home, #8 shikellamy, #9 the bread basket, #10 birthplace of D. Boone, #11 the hereford stove, #12 butter mold design, #13 haus sagen (house blessing), #14 Christmas cookie mold, #15 Bally Catholic church, 316 Biblical stove plates, #17 star over Bethlehem, #18 bound to a rose, #19 tombstone design, #20 paper making in Dutchland, #21 widow Finney's pasture, #22 the covered wagon on liberty trail, #25 toleware coffee-pot design etc. A scarce and… Read More

San Antonio, Texas: Hearst Publications, Inc. and The Light Newspaers, (1942). Very good in printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto of 10 1/4 by 7 1/2 inches with curling to the lower fore corner of the front cover and a 1/2 chip to the lower edge of the rear cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages describing 50 combat insignia stamps with the actual stamps attached in the places provide.