Paul A. Whyles - Second-Hand Books
Stamps and Cigarette Cards

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British - British Railways. J. A. Pattreiouex Ltd. 1938? Senior Service cigarette cards: nos available are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47 and 48. 75mm x 50mm approx., monochrome photographic reproductions. All fine. Above average. NOTE: 50p each, please email.
[Order code: 7435 / Price £20.00]

British - British Birds. Gallaher. 1937? W. D. Wills. 65mm x 38mm approx. Nos available: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43. All near fine. Above average. NOTE: 50p each, please email.
[Order code: 7436 / Price £20.00]

Burgess, Harry - Harry Burgess & Co's Bumper Bargain Packets Price List for 1935. Stamp dealers price list. 9" x 17" (open) single sheet, folded in 3. Lower front corner by fold a bit 'scrunged', otherwise fine.
[Order code: 13151 / Price £1.50]

Dream - Dream Stuff: A Compendium of Dream Jobs. Royal Mail promotional booklet. 6¼" x 6¼", 12pp plus 8 postcards, card, sb. Colour illustrated. 1 response card used from the back, o/w fine.
[Order code: 5010 / Price £0.50] plus post at cost.

Gallaher - Bufferflies and Moths. 1938. Full set of 48 cards housed in an old Park Drive 10 packet. Two cards very good, the rest fine.
[Order code: 5141 / Price £15.00]

GB 1968 - Machin First Day Cover (5d, 7d, 8d, and 10d). 01.07.68, Nottingham postmark. Bit grubby. Really posted.
[Order code: 4490 / Price £0.50]

GB 1968 - Machin First Day Cover (5d, 7d, 8d, and 10d). 01.07.68, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4491 / Price £0.50]

GB 1972 - General Anniversaries. Corner block of 4 of the 3d stamp with the 'trafic lights' on the right. Mint.
[Order code: 4492 / Price £0.50]

GB 1974 - Great Britons First Day Cover. 10.07.74, Nottingham postmark. Somewhat grubby. Relly posted.
[Order code: 4485 / Price £0.50]

GB 1975 - 62nd Inter~Parliamentary Conference First Day Cover. 03.09.75. Good plus. Really posted.
[Order code: 4480 / Price £0.50]

GB 1975 - Christmas First Day Cover. 26.11.75, Nottingham postmark. Slightly 'grubby', very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4482 / Price £0.50]

GB 1975 - Jane Austen. Three PHQ cards, 10p card missing, used with their corresponding stamp as first day covers. 10p card missing, back bottom edge (½") of 8½p card dulled, o/w fine.
[Order code: 4498 / Price £5.00]

GB 1976 - Bicentennial of American Independence First Day Cover. 02.06.76, Nottingham postmark. Good plus. Really posted.
[Order code: 4475 / Price £0.50]

GB 1976 - Bicentennial of American Independence First Day Cover. 02.06.76, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4479 / Price £0.50]

GB 1976 - Bicentennial of American Independence First Day Cover. 02.06.76, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4484 / Price £0.50]

GB 1976 - Christmas Presentation Pack. Slight 'rub' to 2 stamps where they have been pulled off the very slight sticky-line used to hold them in place, o/w mint.
[Order code: 4493 / Price £0.60]

GB 1976 - William Caxton Presentation Pack. Mint.
[Order code: 4494 / Price £1.00]

GB 1977 - Christmas Set First Day Cover. 23.11.77, Nottingham postmark. Edges or cover 'dusty', good only, would make nice set of used. Really posted.
[Order code: 4467 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - Commonwealth Heads of Covernment First Day Cover. 08.06.77, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4469 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - Silver Jubilee First Day Cover. 11.05.77, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4470 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - Chemistry First Day Cover. 02.03.77, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4471 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - Silver Jubilee (9p only) First Day Cover. 15.06.97, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4487 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - British Wildlife First Day Cover. 05.10.77, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4489 / Price £0.50]

GB 1977 - Silver Jubilee. 9p PHQ card used as a first day cover. Fine.
[Order code: 4499 / Price £1.00]

GB 1978 - Christmas First Day Cover. 22.11.78, Nottingham postmark. Good plus. Really posted.
[Order code: 4473 / Price £0.50]

GB 1978 - Energy First Day Cover. 25.01.78, Nottingham postmark. Bit grubby, good plus. Really posted.
[Order code: 4474 / Price £0.50]

GB 1978 - Energy. Set of 4 PHQ cards. Slight mark to back of 11p card, o/w fine. Not used.
[Order code: 4497 / Price £1.00]

GB 1979 - Rowland Hill First Day Cover. 22.08.79, Nottingham Postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4468 / Price £0.50]

GB 1979 - Direct Elections to the European Assembly First Day Cover. 09.05.79, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4476 / Price £0.50]

GB 1979 - Police First Day Cover. 26.09.79, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4477 / Price £0.50]

GB 1979 - British Flowers First Day Cover. 21.03.79, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4478 / Price £0.50]

GB 1979 - Dogs First Day Cover. 07.02.79, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Really posted.
[Order code: 4488 / Price £0.50]

GB 1979 - Direct Elections to the European Assembly. Set of 4 PHQ cards. Fine, unused.
[Order code: 4496 / Price £1.00]

GB 1979 - Police. Set of 4 PHQ cards. Fine.
[Order code: 4500 / Price £1.00]

GB 1979 - Christmas. Set of 5 PHQ cards. Fine.
[Order code: 4501 / Price £1.00]

GB 1980 - British Birds First Day Cover. 16.01.80, Nottingham postmark. Edges a bit 'dusty', additional 'use postcode' postmark, good plus. Really posted.
[Order code: 4472 / Price £0.50]

GB 1980 - London 1980 Miniature Sheet. Mint.
[Order code: 4495 / Price £0.75]

GB 1997 - All The Queens's Horses First Day Cover. 08.07.97, Nottingham postmark. Near fine. Not posted.
[Order code: 4483 / Price £2.00]

GB 1976 - Roses First Day Cover. 30.06.76, Nottingham postmark. Very good. Relly posted.
[Order code: 4486 / Price £0.50]

Gibbons, Stanley - Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British Empire, Section A, 1840/1936. Gibbons, 1949. Illustrated throughout with monochrome reproductions. Very good, no wrapper.
[Order code: 2673 / Price £10.00]

Gibbons, Stanley - Collect British Stamps. Stanley Gibbons, 1967, 1st. This is the first edition of this ever-popular check list. 8½" x 5½", 60pp, illustrated card, paperback. Illustrated with monochrome reproductions of the stamps. Slight cover creases (where your fingers would rest as you 'fanned' the pages); very good (no inscriptions, no marking/checking, not ex-library). Unusually good condition for this item as they generally have heavy use. Stamp collecting history rather than practical.
[Order code: 4344 / Price £1.50]

Gibbons, Stanley - Collect British Stamps. Stanley Gibbons, 1968, 3rd edition. 8¼" x 5½", 60pp, illustrated card, sb. Illustrated with monochrome reproductions of the stamps. Very good.
[Order code: 4345 / Price £4.00]

Gibbons, Stanley - Stamp Catalogue Part 1: British Commonwealth. Stanley Gibbons, 84th edition (1982), 1981. 12" x 8¼", 682pp, illustrated paper, hb. Monochrome illustrations. Part of front board marked (looks as though the book has been pressed against something black that has transfered), spine somewhat faded, edges a little 'browned', o/w very good, no wrapper.
[Order code: 4346 / Price £8.00]

Gibbons, Stanley - Centenary Exhibition Catalogue. Stanley Gibbons. 1965. 9½" x 7¼", 60pp, card covers, softback. Monochrome illustrations. Text content: 'The History of the Gibbons Catalogue' 8pp, illustrated; what appears to be a reproduction of Gibbons' original catalogue from 1865, 20pp; 'The Gibbons Groun, The Recent Past and the Future', 1 side; list of stands and exhibits; adverts. Also includes a 28pp, Winter 1964, 'Gibbons Album List', and a flyer detailing Gibbons' services. Near fine. Above average.
[Order code: 7388 / Price £5.00]

Jerusalem - No 1 Souvenir de Jerusalem. Edit Nicola De Simini, Jerusalem (I think), not dated, feels 1930s??? 3½" x 5¾" folder of 12 (only 9 are present here) colour post-cards with captions (7 languages). 3 cards missing (used); 1 card detached; slight foxing (faint patches rather than spots); very good condition.
[Order code: 16021 / Price £5.00]

Park Drive - Stars of Screen and Stage. Gallaher, not dated, 1935? Series of 48 colour cards corner mounted (not fixed) in a general purpose card abbum. 'Green Back' edition. Index neatly completed. I've removed the cards to check them (you can have the pleasure of putting them back in the album if you wish), the set is complete; the cards, due to being stored in the album from new are in excellent condition, I doubt you'd find better; the album cover is 'dusty' and somewhat creased, the staples are rusty.
[Order code: 4272 / Price £25.00]

Park Drive - The Navy. Park Drive series, 1937. Individaul cards available (very good plus/fine unless otherwise noted), nos.: 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 42, 41 heavily 'foxed' on front, clean back, 40, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 27 one crease, 26, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 14 heavily foxed around the edges of back, 13, 12, 11, 10, 8, 7 badly creased, 6 poor condition, 5, 3, 1. Fuller description of any particular card available on request.
[Order code: 5142 / Price £0.60] (Maximum price of each).

Piccadilly - The Film Star Album. Issued for Piccadilly Juniors Oval Film Star Real Photos. Carreras Ltd, 1934. Original album containing the full set of 72 monochrome oval photographs of '30s stars very carefully pasted in place. Table at back with name, age [then], and date of birth. 5¼" x 8½", 16pp, blue card, softback. Slight rusting to staples; covers slightly 'dusty'; cards all in good condition; complete. A nice item.
[Order code: 4270 / Price £72.00]

Photo Postcard - George V 1½d (Three Halfpence) Brown on a photo postcard. Cancellation stamp is 13th July 1921 (I think). Used, obviously. Appears to be a family group photo. Good condition.
[Order code: 14518 / Price £1.00]

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