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jsvphil
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posted 09-22-2023 11:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jsvphil   Click Here to Email jsvphil     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Where can I obtain a new or used copy of the book "Philatelic History of Space Exploration"?

Axman
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I know of no such book. Are you sure of that title? Do you have an author's name?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-22-2023 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Reuben Ramkissoon and Lester Winick wrote "A Philatelic History of Space Exploration" in 1972. A page on the Space Unit's website describes the book as "out of print and, so far, impossible to find anywhere."

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It really wasn't as much a philatelic "history" book as such ... it was a listing of rocket flights through 1960 with a value range for what a cover for that flight would be worth — a very small number of covers were pictured.

Only a small number were produced as it wasn't really a book but three-hole punched black and white pages copied whenever an order came. The buyer could then put the pages in a binder. There was NOT a special binder created for it that I know of.

A follow-on listing had been edited through 1965 but was never published.

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