USA International Postage Rates - 19th/20th Century

International Postal Rates

United States Letter Rates to Foreign Destinations, 1847 to GPU-UPU by Charles J. Starnes. Detailed rate tables from the U.S. to every country in the World for all mail systems with appendices covering British Treaty Mail via Marseilles, French postal charges, Bremen transit charges, UPU entrance dates, etc. The basic work on US postal rates to foreign destinations.

1982, 160 pages, 58 illustrations, cloth, edition of 1000, $27.50
1982, Deluxe edition, rag paper, ¼ leather, slip case, edition of 25, $300.00
Note, with one exception, every cover illustrated in the 1982 edition was stolen in 1983, most of these covers were recovered and sold in the Robert A. Siegel auction of October 25-26, 2007, a listing of those that have not been recovered can be found at Starnes covers not yet recovered, pdf
1990, 176 pages, 112 illustrations, cloth, edition of 750, $37.50