The brand new 6-volume Stamps of the World Catalogue lists stamps from every country with colour illustrations by date of issue with values provided for used and mint stamps and helpful introductory notes to guide the reader through.

This world-leading simplified catalogue provides the perfect reference material for dealers and collectors alike. It is easy-to-use with illustrated descriptions of all the world’s stamps with an accurate assessment of their current market values.

Why buy the set of 6 Stamps of the World catalogues?

Covers stamps of the entire world

Easy-to-use simplified listings

Illustrated in colour throughout with over 165,000 images

Thousands of stamps throughout Stamps of the World have been re-priced, both mint and used

Over 2250 new stamps and 700 images added since 2011 edition

Stamps are now listed in face value order for ease of use

Having problems with stamp identification? Read our extensive article packed with helpful information

Introductory information, including full contents listings and a complete guide to entries giving full detail of what every listing means

This edition includes over 2,250 newly listed stamps and over 165,000 colour images. Stamps of the World contains helpful information on the currencies appearing on stamps, descriptions of the designs, descriptions of surcharges and overprints, paper colour, stamp colours, se-tenant pairs, miniature sheets, and appendices with brief listings of stamps not fulfilling the conditions for full catalogue listing.

As well as postage stamps, the catalogue lists postage due stamps, parcel post stamps, official stamps, express and special delivery stamps, charity and compulsory tax stamps, newspaper and journal stamps, printer matter stamps, registration stamps, acknowledgement of receipt stamps, late fee and too late stamps, military post stamps, recorded message stamps and personal delivery stamps.

This highly anticipated price guide has been updated with a new, easy-to-use layout with clear illustrations throughout and helpful guidance making it easier to find exactly what you need and get the latest prices at your fingertips.

Listing the postmarks of Great Britain, this catalogue was produced in collaboration with the British Postmark Society and compiled by a number of leading experts in the field, including Editor Bill Pipe.

Get Collect British Postmarks and you will be able to identify any British postmark and determine a minimum value of a cover with a comprehensive number system widely used by postmark collectors. Last published in 1997 this highly anticipated catalogue is available now.

'In short, it is a winner!'
Thomas P. Myers, Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle, April 2012

The first edition of this specialised title to be published since 2008, this catalogue provides a detailed price listing of all Great Britain Queen Victoria stamps, British Postal Fiscals and Post Office Telegraph Stamps.

Each section includes comprehensive background information

Entire catalogue has been carefully revised and repirced in line with the current market for the first time in three years

Contains appendices covering Mulready Letter sheets with advertisements, protective overprints and underprints, specimen and cancelled overprints and stamps of the Circular Delivery Companies and Oxford and Cambridge Colleges

If you're a collector of 19th century Great Britain stamps, this is the catalogue for you.

This full colour catalogue provides a straightforward, simplified price listing of every mint and used British stamp from the Penny Black to Christmas 2011, with all commemorative designs illustrated for ease of use. Contains fully updated listings of the popular Post & Go Stamps and a fully priced list of Royal Mail Philatelic, Numismatic and Medallic covers.

Providing a straightforward simplified, richly illustrated listing of all British stamps

Hundreds of price changes since the previous edition, particularly to Queen Victoria

Over 270 pages in full colour

All commemorative designs illustrated

Oustanding value

Helpful introduction with advice on how to build a collection

‘A beautifully-presented and useful work, even to a specialist collector’ - The GB Journal

'Easily accessible to beginners…an important book that should be in every public library in the UK' - Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle

This full colour catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of mint and used stamps of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, including the Wartime occupation issues of Guernsey and Jersey, the British Post Office "Regional issues and the stamps of the independent postal administrations of Guernsey (including Alderney), the Isle of Man and Jersey.
FREE Channel Islands Stamps and Postal History booklet worth £3.95 with every copy, while stocks last.

This full colour catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of the mint and used stamps of Ireland from the 1922 Provisional Government overprints on the stamps of Great Britain right up to the latest issues.

Prices have been carefully revised throughout, to give an accurate picture of current stamp values.

Updated and based on the new and improved "Stamps of the World" this full colour catalogue provides listings and prices for the mint and used stamps of the key issuing countries of Western Europe, including France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

Information is provided at the beginning of each country covering history, early stamp issues and currency changes. A must for the thematic collector of European countries. Listings and layout have been completely re-designed in an easy to read format.

This is the only comprehensive, single volume catalogue of the stamps of Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in English.

Here you will find listed all the stamps from the earliest issues of Czechoslovakia, through the break-up to form Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as Poland. Prices are provided for mint and used stamps and all varieties are included, notably perforation, watermark and shade variations, overprint types and major errors.

The Stanley Gibbons Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland Catalogue also covers a number of other areas of interest, including Czechslovak Army in Siberia, East Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia, German Occupation of Poland, Polish Military Post and Polish Post Offices Abroad.

The bestselling Great Britain Concise catalogue provides full colour price listings for all mint and used Great Britain stamp issues from the 1840 Penny Black to March 2012.

Included are definitives, commemoratives, regionals, postage dues, official stamps and booklets. Information for the more specialist collector includes priced listings of specimens, booklets, selected plate and cylinder varieties, errors (including missing colours, missing embossing, imperforates and phosphor omitted varieties) and inverted watermarks. More ‘popular’ fields covered include prices for gutter pairs, first day covers, presentation packs, yearbooks, ‘Smilers’ and much else.

• Listings with prices for all GB stamps from 1840 to March 2012
• Covers all GB Definitives, Commemoratives, First Day Covers, Presentation Packs, Booklets and Smilers
• Also lists Errors, Varieties, Watermarks, Specimens, Officials and Regionals
• Prices for used and unused stamps
• 400 pages with Full colour illustrations
• Hundreds of price increases since last edition

There is a helpful introductory section, providing answers to many of the problems encountered by less experienced collectors, while additional help comes in the form of a full design index and diagrams showing the layout of Machin decimal booklet panes.

Prices are given for both unmounted and mounted mint stamps issued between 1887 and 1935 and on-cover prices are provided up to 1910. All are carefully checked each year to give an accurate easy-to-use guide to British stamps and their values, thus ensuring the continuing popularity of this widely used catalogue.

Detailed Contents

• Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Stamp Catalogue lists and prices all British stamps from 1840 to early 2012.
• Every different stamp design is illustrated in full colour.
• Listings include changes of watermark, perforation, shade and phosphor.
• First day covers, Royal Mail postage labels, Post Office (PHQ) Cards, presentation packs, booklets, postage dues, regionals, official stamps, postal fiscals and Post Office label sheets (Smilers) all listed and priced.
• Includes gutter pair prices.
• Gutter Pairs and “Traffic light” Gutter Pairs listed in mint sets.
• First Day Covers for Special Issues from 1924 and for King Edward VIII and King George VI definitives listed.
• Prestige Booklet panes and Regionals included for Queen Elizabeth II.
• All British Post Office special First Day of Issue postmarks are illustrated and priced on cover.
• Quick reference diagrams for listed Machin decimal booklet panes.
• Visible plate numbers listed for Victorian stamps.
• All basic stamps priced mint and used, with unmounted and mounted mint prices from 1887 to 1935 and on-cover prices from 1840 to 1911.
• Major errors and varieties including missing colours and perforation and watermark errors listed and priced.
• Helpful introductory section providing philatelic definitions and guidance for the collector.
• Booklet pane diagrams and indexes of commemorative designs and Machin definitives make this catalogue the perfect guide to British stamps and their values.
• Includes a Commemorative Design Index.
• Useful table of postage rates contemporary with NVIs.
• Inverted and sideways watermarks are listed and priced, as well as First Day Covers, presentation packs, FRAMAS, PHQ cards, ‘Smiler’ sheets, errors – and a host of details.
• Includes simplified listings of specimen overprints.
• Includes the popular Post Office Label Sheets.
• Includes Post Office Yearbooks and Year Packs.
• Helpful introductory section providing definitions and guidance for the collector and including all watermark illustrations shown together to assist identification.
• Recently discovered errors and new items now listed.
• Post & Go stamps fully listed.

This full colour catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of the mint and used stamps of Australia, the Australian States, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. Listings up to 1970 are extracted from the 2012 Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps catalogue. Later issues have been updated and priced for this edition.

Listings for all stamps of Australia, the Australian States and Dependent Territories

Prices for mint and used stamps, Booklets, Postage Dues and Official stamps

Includes Major plate flaws, watermark varieties, errors, paper, watermark and perforation changes and "Specimen" overprints

325 pages

Full colour illustrations

Comprehensive detail

Hundreds of price increases since last edition

This full colour catalogue lists and prices the mint and used stamps of the Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Dependencies, South Georgia, British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.

Details of issues up to 1970 have been extracted from the Stanley Gibbons 2012 Commonwealth and British Empire Stamp Catalogue. Later issues have been updated and repriced for this edition.