Mayo Menachim (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 194pp. b&w and colour illustrations, photographs. In very good clean condition but repair (where pulled) between page 56 and 57 VG illustrated card. Export orders go by airmail tracked only.

23x15 cm. 194 Seiten. Illustriert. Text in englischer Sprache. Broschur, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gutes Exemplar. Briefmarken und Stempelkunde Bei Bestellungen auf Rechnung bleibt Vorkasse vorbehalten. SHIPPING ONLY TO DELIVERY ADDRESSES IN GERMANY! VERSAND NUR AN LIEFERADRESSEN IN DEUTSCHLAND.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. English text with an Arabic title that translates as "Saudi, Hejaz and Nejd Post". Geometrically illustrated wraps 17x24cm. 158pp illustrated in b/w throughout. Fine. The first and only edition. Very rare with Worldcat locating just 5, all in the US (Columbia University, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, University of Texas, University of Utah). Jisc does not record it. This highly respected self-published work was the first serious study on the subject since the Survey of Egypt's "Short Note" (1919), Haworth & Sargent (1922), and Warin (1927): "The three books or booklets mentioned above are all that I have found of value in the Arabian philatelic area". Beyond these, the author reverted to a comparatively lengthy list of travel accounts, citing Burton, TEL, Twitchell, Palgrave, Philby among many others (p1). His history begins when "Hejaz Arabia's first postage stamps were not Arabian, but Egyptian", and when the Ottomans were opening post offices along the route of the Hejaz Railway ("this area is in dire need of more research"). On 27 June 1916, when Hussein declared the Hejaz free of Ottoman rule, "Pre-stamps" in the form of fee paid ink stamps were used, pending the creation of the first Hejaz issues by the Survey of Egypt. The survey proper begins with the first Hejaz issues in 1916 (I), and ends with Saudi Arabia's International Hydrological Decade Commemorative Issue in 1973 (CXXVIII). …

392pp. 1st ltd. ed., no. 93 of 500 copies, signed by author on f.e.p. Fine in D/W. Detailed priced listing of these stamp issues.