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Hard Cover, quarto, 257pp. In publisher's navy cloth boards with gold lettering. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, which has shelf wear to edges and some dust-soiling overall. ** Illustrated history of the postal service in Connecticut. The author, Arthur J. Warmsley (1913-1998) was an enthusiastic philatelist, and tells anecdotes of the history of the postal service from the post riders of early America through the establishment of the US Post Office and the transport of mail via the New Haven Steamboat Company and the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad. Illustrated throughout with photographs and 18 full-page plates of the postmarks (cancels) of individual Connecticut towns. OCLC 4103893.
Ref: STAMP 8724
$38.00