The only fully illustrated, four-color guide to U.S. stamps, this official publication provides the most comprehensive information available about the U.S. stamp program and its vivid history. Beginning with the first stamps released in 1847,The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps covers nearly 4,000 stamps issued up to the present, as well as:
"If you are interested in the beauty of mathematics, you must go out and buy Robin Wilson's absolutely stunning book of mathematical stamps, a book which traces the history of mathematics through images on the postage of countries around the globe." -Victor Katz, MAA Online Postage stamps are an attractive vehicle for presenting mathematics and its development. For many years the author has presented illustrated lectures entitled Stamping through Mathematics to school and college groups and to mathematical clubs and societies, and has written a regular "Stamps Corner" for The Mathematical Intelligencer. The book contains almost four _hundred postage stamps relating to mathematics, ranging from the earliest forms of counting to the modern computer age. The stamps appear enlarged and in full color with full historical commentary, and are listed at the end of the book.
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Blue Mauritius is an adventure that begins at a ball on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, and unfolds through discoveries of the legendary stamp in Bordeaux, Mauritius, India, and Britain. It is the fascinating story of the birth of philately, the first collectors, and those who hunt the the world's most sought after postage stamps.
The third in Stephen R. Datz's trilogy about the stamp trade. Datz's true-life adventures chasing deals all over the map from the desolate hinterlands of Wyoming and Montana to the bright lights of New York and Las Vegas. An amazing odyssey: fast times and big-dollar deals, wild goose chases and third-rate motels, blizzards and tornados, eccentric millionaires and desert rats, even a hippie hitchhiker. Action-packed all the way. You'll be up all night finishing this one!
