postage stamps

Presents more than twenty-five stamps from different countries, including Belgium, Nicaragua, and the Virgin Islands, and discusses how they celebrate the customs, legends, and history of their countries.

Combines practical advice on how to collect stamps with insider advice to investors and stories about rare stamps.

New ed. of: Getting started in stamp collecting. Rev. & enl. 1982. Describes how to get started collecting stamps, topical collections, buying, selling, and limiting collections.

Cover title: Usborne guide to stamps and stamp collecting. Offers suggestions for what stamps to collect, how to arrange an album, how to handle stamps, how to identify them, and how to spot interesting details.

Presents the history of the United States through reproductions of postage stamps, especially commemorative stamps. Subjects include the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, the settlement of the West, the Great Depression, World War II, and the moon landing.

Covers stamp collecting basics, stamp products, subscription services, and lists values for stamps, stationary, and collectibles.

Spine title: The official guide to U.S. stamps. Covers stamp collecting basics, stamp products, subscription services, and lists values for stamps, stationary, and collectibles.

Presents details of working with stamps and buying and selling them.