Books Pictured On Stamps

Senegal
The 50th Anniversary of International Bureau of Education
September 15, 1979
The International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO) is a UNESCO institute mandated as the Center of Excellence in curriculum and related matters of teaching, learning, and assessment. IBE was a private organization created in 1925 by some prominent people in Geneva. It became an intergovernmental organization in 1929.

Portugal
50th Anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
July 18, 2006
The set of 10 stamps commemorate the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese private foundation of public utility whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education, and science. One stamp in the set highlights the Art Library.

Switzerland
International Bureau of Education
September 22, 1958
One of the two designs shows stylized books and globe.

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting, respectively, German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468), and Hungarian letter cutter, typeface designer, typographer and printer Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (1650-1702), designed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Bokros (1891-1974), printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on June 14, 1962 to commemorate the centenary of the Hungarian Printing Union, Scott Nos. 1455 & 1456.

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Andorra (French Administration)
World Book Day
April 23, 2001
World Book Day is a yearly event on April 23, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright.

Czech Republic
World Book and Copyright Day
April 23, 1998
A most simple design showing a book and a copyright symbol.

The Luther Bible is a German language Bible translation from Hebrew and ancient Greek by Martin Luther (1483-1546). The New Testament was first published in 1522 and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, in 1534. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp depicting the Luther Bible (1534), designed by Czech-born Austrian artist Alfred von Chmielowski (1896-1967), engraved by Rudolf Toth (1918-2009), and issued by Austria on November 5, 1953 as one of a set of five stamps benefiting the Vienna Evangelical School Rebuilding Fund, Scott No. B283, plus a photograph of a copy of the Luther Bible.

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United States
Celebrate The Century Issues - 1930s
September 10, 1998
Set of ten; one stamp features Gone With the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949). The iconic novel portrayed the Old South during and after the Civil War.

Brazil
Book Week
October 23, 1970
The design shows a young reader in the library.

"Culture:" Medieval scholar, book, film, microphone, antenna and television set, designed and engraved by French artist Claude Jumelet (1946- ), and issued by Monaco on September 6, 1971 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of UNESCO, Scott No. 808.

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Open book and bookshelves, printed by photogravure, and issued by Algeria on April 19, 1980 for Science Day, Scott No. 640.

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Brazil
Book Day and Erico Verissimo Commemoration
October 23, 1980
Érico Lopes Veríssimo (1905 – 1975) was an important Brazilian writer. The stamp design shows his story Um Certo Capitão Rodrigo as a part of a novel De O Tempo e o Vento.

Here are images of the five engraved stamps in a set depicting people reading and (inset) a portrait of Sultan Mohammed V, and issued by Morocco on November 5, 1956 to promote the campaign against illiteracy, Scott Nos. 8-12.

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Men reading.


Women reading.


Reading instructor and students in a classroom.


Child reading to an old man.


Girl pointing to writing on a poster.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting Czechoslovak Communist politician Klement Gottwald (1896-1953) speaking from notes, with a couple of books bookmarked with flowers in the foreground, designed by Mario Stretti (1926-2004), engraved by Jindra Schmidt (1897-1984), and issued by Czechoslovakia on February 18, 1954 as one of a set of two stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia, Scott No. 637, plus a photo of Klement Gottwald speaking.

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Finland 2016 Reading a book at the beach