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NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NATIONAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY A GUIDE TO THE LIBRARY AND A LISTING OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALS RELATING TO NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Introduction : Since April 2007 the books and journals owned by the New Zealand Society of Great Britain, and which previously formed its Library, have been on permanent loan to the National Philatelic Society (NPS). Those books and journals, and later additions, are now managed as part of the NPS Library. For several years until mid 2012 the NPS Library was housed in Freeling House, which is part of Royal Mail’s Mount Pleasant complex in London WC1. This was arranged courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA), which for the moment continues to operate from the same building. However, much of the Mount Pleasant complex is being redeveloped and both the BPMA and the NPS must move out. The BPMA is due to move to nearby Calthorpe House by late 2014 and has secured initial funding for this from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The NPS Library, however, was required to move out in autumn 2012, and has for the time being moved all the material held in Freeling House to storage facilities at Bill Hill Park, near Wokingham, where some older material was already kept. Since it is not practicable to open these facilities to either NPS or NZSGB members on a regular basis, the NPS is currently examining options for a more accessible location for the Library, if possible alongside a new venue for its meetings. Using the Library : NZSGB members are entitled to use the NPS Library on the same terms as NPS members and may borrow and request copies of material in the Library. Given the arrangements described above, browsing and borrowing in person are not currently practicable and so until further notice all transactions must be by e-mail, telephone or post. Members wishing to borrow items or order photocopies should therefore put their requests in the first instance to the Library Liaison Officer by telephone or e-mail (details below). He will then contact the NPS and arrange to meet requests as expeditiously as possible. In some cases it may be possible to transact Library business at London meetings of the Society. There is more information about the NPS and its Library, and an online catalogue that includes auction lists and exhibition material as well as books and journals, on the NPS website at www.ukphilately.org.uk/nps. This Library Guide and List is intended to demonstrate the wealth of published material available on all aspects of New Zealand philately, to help expand your knowledge of current interests, resolve particular queries, or support research which may one day lead to publications that find their way into the Library for the benefit of others. Queries and suggestions : If you have any queries on the operation of the Library or suggestions for the addition of further items, whether newly published or older material, please contact the Library Liaison Officer. MICHAEL WILKINSON MIKE BRAMWELL LIBRARY LIAISON OFFICER HONORARY LIBRARIAN NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN NATIONAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY 01732 456997 : e-mail [email protected] UPDATED : OCTOBER 2012 - 1 - BOOKS In this section the entries are arranged in the following subject categories:- 1 Air Mail 8 Labels 15 Postal History 2 Alternative Postal Operators 9 Maritime 16 Postcards 3 Bibliographies, Indexes and Library lists 10 Military 17 Postmarks 4 Catalogues 11 New Zealand Post Office 18 Railways 5 First Day Covers 12 Pacific Islands 19 Routes and Rates 6 General and miscellaneous works 13 Perfins 20 RPSNZ Handbooks 7 Islands & Antarctic 14 Post Offices 21 Stamp issues When a title falls in more than one category, it is usually listed under all relevant categories. Within each category, entries are ordered by date of publication unless stated otherwise in the heading. For each item, the following information is included:- - any sub-title needed to clarify the subject matter Title, plus - any comment needed to describe the document - in brackets, the publisher when this is a philatelic society or organisation Author - includes editor, compiler etc Year of publication - undated items appear first, but are not necessarily the oldest in any category Number of pages - to indicate each document’s length : many modern books are A4 size, but older ones can vary considerably - this number, as well as title, author, year and publisher, can be used to interrogate the NPS online database NPS accession - in numbers with more than 3 digits there is a space before the last 3 digits number - accession numbers 4 5xx and 4 6xx indicate items on permanent loan from the NZSGB Abbreviations used AMSNZ Air Mail Society of New Zealand BPT British Philatelic Trust NZSGB New Zealand Society of Great Britain PHSNZ Postal History Society of New Zealand PISC Pacific Islands Study Circle RPSNZ Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand TITLE AUTHOR YEAR PAGES NPS SECTION 1 : AIR MAIL Air mail cancellations of New Zealand – reprinted from The Aero Field Robin M Startup 4pp 4 591 Air mails of New Zealand : Volume 1 – The internal flights (AMSNZ) DouglasWalker,editor 1955 114pp 748 The external air mails of New Zealand : checklist NigelCBaldwin 1964 22pp 1487 Air mails of New Zealand : Volume 2 – The Overseas flights 1928-40 Douglas A Walker, 1986 346pp 4618 (AMSNZ) compiler The New Zealand airmail catalogue James A Stapleton 1987 36pp 6 669 New Zealand air post cancellations with valuations (AMSNZ) James A Stapleton 1992 46pp 4 590 The New Zealand airmail catalogue, 2nd edition (AMSNZ) James A Stapleton 1994 80pp 4 589 Airmails of New Zealand : Volume 3 – International airmails 1940-70 Robin M Startup, 1997 277pp 4607 (AMSNZ) compiler New Zealand Airgraph Service 1942-45 (PHSNZ) Keith A Griffiths 1999 87pp 4 529 - 2 - TITLE AUTHOR YEAR PAGES NPS New Zealand airmail label & aviation Cinderella catalogue (AMSNZ) James A Stapleton 1999 68pp 4 588 British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines 1946-54 : an aviation and aerophilatelic history of the development of Trans-Pacific services between Laurence Kimpton 2005 60pp 4 544 Australasia & North America by BCPA and its competitors James A Stapleton The New Zealand airmail catalogue, 3rd edition (AMSNZ) 2009 96pp 4626 Mike Shand, editor SECTION 2 : ALTERNATIVE POSTAL OPERATORS National Mail (NZ) Ltd : the first significant competition to New Zealand Post? Tony Mansfield 1999 22pp 4 553 : the service, stamps and the products Alternative postal operators in New Zealand, Part 1 JohnHill 2003 102pp 4533 SECTION 3 : BIBLIOGRAPHIES, INDEXES AND LIBRARY LISTS Christchurch Philatelic Society Library catalogue Part 1 – books Christchurch PS 1973 24pp 5 075 Cumulative Index to The Mail Coach 1964-84(PHSNZ) GeraldLawson 1985 72pp 4632 Captain Coqk : Cumulative index 1972-89 Christchurch PS c1990 7 227 Postal History Society of New Zealand : Library List and Catalogue (PHSNZ) C F Foote, compiler 1996 80pp 4 633 A bibliography of New Zealand military postal history (RPSNZ) DEHurley 1998 93pp 4535 Index to The New Zealand Stamp Collector 1919-94 - including references to AdamMiller,compiler 1998 172pp 4563 the RPSNZ handbooks Volumes I-VII (RPSNZ) David R Beech, New Zealand and dependencies: a philatelic bibliography (BPT) Allan P Berry & 2003 298pp 10056 Robin M Startup The Kiwi : Cumulative index, volumes 1-50 (1952-2001) – NZSGB Special AndrewFDove 2003 102pp 4521 publication no.2, includes CD Index to The New Zealand Stamp Collector 1995-2004 and the Newsletter AdamMiller,compiler 2005 50pp 4634 1947-73 (RPSNZ) TheRPSNZLibrary:alistofLibraryholdings–includesCD(RPSNZ) AdamMiller,compiler 2007 100pp 4635 SECTION 4 : CATALOGUES for Air Mail catalogues, see SECTION 3 : AIR MAIL 4.1 Stamps The Regent encyclopaedia of Empire postage stamps Robson Lowe, editor 1935 480pp 4 550 Priced catalogue of plate markings of the stamps of New Zealand, 3rd edition Verne,Collins&Co 1950 20pp 459 A catalogue of the stamps of New Zealand, 6th edition Pim&Co(NZ)Ltd 1955 107pp 7873 Stamp catalogue : New Zealand & Dependencies Stanley Gibbons Ltd 2003 53pp 10 082 Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth stamp catalogue : New Zealand, 2nd edition Stanley Gibbons Ltd 2006 74pp 10 643 Australia and New Zealand revenues and railway fee stamps catalogue Dave Elsmore 2009 11 224 Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth stamp catalogue : New Zealand, 3rd edition Stanley Gibbons Ltd 2009 72pp 11 052 Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth stamp catalogue : New Zealand, 4th edition Stanley Gibbons Ltd 2010 148pp 11 453 KiwiCatalogueofNewZealandRevenueandRailwayStamps DavidSmitham,editor 2010 44pp 4631 The Campbell Paterson Specialised Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps Campbell Paterson Ltd 2011 BPMA (current edition) [in BPMA Reading Room] - 3 - TITLE AUTHOR YEAR PAGES NPS 4.2 Postal History Postal history catalogue of New Zealand. Volume 1 L J G Franks 1958 40pp 898 Postal history catalogue of New Zealand : Volume 2 – Slogan postmarks LaurieFranks 1959 54pp 1461 4.3 Postal Stationery Postal stationery of New Zealand (PHSNZ) R M Startup 1966 80pp 2 596 New Zealand postal stationery catalogue : Part 2 – Lettercards (Christchurch RDSamuel 1976 54pp 059 PS) New Zealand postal stationery catalogue : Part 3 – Registered envelopes etc RDSamuel 1978 79pp 5296 (Christchurch PS) New Zealand postal stationery catalogue RDSamuel 1983 c440pp 4581 New Zealand postal stationery catalogue : Part 1 – Postcards RDSamuel 1988 104pp 9480 SECTION 5 : FIRST DAY COVERS New Zealand First Day and Early Use covers T C Thackery 1992 175pp