Question On Seaposts Of The USA By Roger Hosking

Hello all,

I have been unable (so far) to locate a copy of the book "Seaposts of the USA" by Roger Hosking (though I can find the booklets by Cockrill). I am solely interested, at least for now, in the NY - Buenos Aires line.

Could anyone that has a copy of the book by Hosking let me know what kind of information is included there? Is it markings and cancellations? Does it include additional information, such as records of trips made by different ships, timetables, etc.? If not, does anyone know where I could find those?

Any information you could provide would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Miguel

Have you tried this link: http://www.tpo-seapost.org.uk/tpo2/spus.html


Peter

The book you are seeking is now listed as out of print. I own one copy which I purchased when it was first published. Hosking devoted two pages to Buenos Aires Seapost (1926-1941). Some text and a few markings. Contact me with your email address and I will see if I can make a PDF of those two pages.

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Hi wtcrowe,
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Don

Thank you for the help and information provided. Much appreciated.

Wanted to follow up on these, now that I could do a bit more reading. Since (my understanding is) these offices on board were staffed by post office employees, there must be records of dates of various trips, who was serving abroad each time, etc. Does anyone know how to go about finding those? I am assuming they are federal records so they must be available.

Thanks,

Miguel

Have you checked out
http://www.tpo-seapost.org.uk/

Don

I searched to see if you missed any copies available online and came up empty. This is indeed a rare book. Ebay, Amazon, abebooks, and a few others... nothing. General googling... I found one very small philatelic book seller who apparently had a copy, but it's marked "sold" now. Good luck!

The auction catalogue of his collection can be found here:

http://paquebot.info/wp-content/upl...-als-PDF.pdf

Wow, that is a very uncommon book. The used book metasearch addall.com shows no copies on the market, and OCLC Worldcat indicates that two libraries hold it, the Smithsonian and the British Library. Interesting problem.

You have several alternatives.

One is to engage the folks at the publisher in some discussion/negotiation http://www.tpo-seapost.org.uk/ and see if they are in a mood to reprint or move this title to publication on demand.

The other -- and the one I would advise pursuing first -- is to go to a library with which you have some affiliation and have them request an interlibrary loan from the Smithsonian, specially the National Postal Museum, for their copy. It appears to be a circulating book, so you might be able to get it. If they won't loan it in its entirety, then you contact their reference staff (there's an "ask a librarian" form to them on Worldcat at the catalog entry) and get a bit of information about the NY Buenos Aires Line as covered in the book, perhaps even photocopy the two pages for you on a cost recovery basis, etc....

Or make 50 posts and then be at liberty to email a prior poster for the two pages which are an easy fair use case. edited to add: unless you've already gotten a mediated solution to get the two necessary pages....

I tried another search focusing more on sellers in the UK and still came up empty. Blackwell's out of Oxford is the only place I found that even has a listing online for it, and they show it as Out of Stock and have no cover photo. You can have them e-mail you if they get it in, but it seems doubtful that's going to happen. I'm kind of curious about trying to track down rare books, but I know little about how to do so. Thanks, Jleb1979, for the Worldcat mention. I wasn't familiar with it and that could be a great resource.

edit: HHSales, a philatelic literature specialist in the UK, doesn't even have it, and they have two books by Roger Hosking and a hard copy of the Cavendish catalog linked on pdf above.