What's in your Library?

I received both of these in today’s mail:

Got me a few new books for my library.

I won these on an online estate-type auction and have been waiting for them to arrive. They were scheduled to be here last Wednesday, but the postal system seems to be bogging down lately. Most of these seem to be older books and some didn't have dust jackets so I photographed the first page. Not really sure which ones I will make keepers, but it looks like there will be some interesting reading for a while.

This is my first real foray into older reference books, so if anyone has any ideas if any of them are considered goods references (or outdated) I would love to hear. The Mexican cancellation book seems to sell for quite a bit of money on various sites.
















This is a price list for the Boston Stamp Co. It isn't dated, but the newest US stamps advertised are the Columbians! Cool stuff!

Thanks!
That is true. These may also lead me into a collecting area that I never thought about exploring previously. Now all I need to do is find room on my already overcrowded shelves.

This one just came today directly from the author, Michael Lenke. 244 pages describing this very difficult series.

Highly recommended for anyone contemplating to collect the Cracow series of Poland.

It does not matter. The different colors variations are not shown in the newer editions anyway.

Michel Specialised in a fantastic catalog.

Just picked up a copy of "Encyclopedia of Plate Varieties on US Bureau Printed Postage Stamps" by Loran C. French

This came today:

U.S. Machine Postmarks 1871-1925

I have been expanding my WW2 library a lot lately.
Some new stuff:

Just bought +40 years of the Sophia journal (ArGe Jugoslawien, BDPh). They just released it as PDFs on an USB stick/download for just 20€.
Contains a lot of very useful information about the Balkan area esp. from WW1-WW2.

Thank you very much. Altough, as I wrote before, I'm not interested on Spanish stamps of any period. I only save those relevant to postal history of my home town, Barcelona, and Catalan postmarks. Spain is one of the few Western Europe countries on whose stamps I'm not interested at all. Nevertheless I was friend of the people behind the reprint of the Tort Nicolau Guide and I've watched and judged a number of good Classical Spain stamp collections, being jury in exhibitions all around Catalonia. I've also atended a few lectures on this subject. So, I can't help but knowing a bit on them. But, as I said, it's not my cup of tea.

I also do not collect past the "Deutsche Post" period when it comes to DDR and Soviet Occupation issues. But then I had to make an exception for the last DDR issues, in 1990, just before re-unification, which were also labelled Deutsche Post.

Just got 5 latest editions of these:





Lots of great articles about the local issues produced during WW2.