*** E-book in separate PDF files for easier access, optional printing.
*** Home menu with 1-click to any stamp chapter or bonus material, uses simple browser files.
*** CD is also useful Companion CD with Bonus material
-- CD chapters are 1-click from home menu,
-- enlargeable color images from e-book, plus bonus images,
-- gives you option to print e-book PDF chapters in grayscale, keeping faster access to color images on CD.
Excerpts shown in ebay scans, revealing four major kinds of contents included. (Actual pages in high resolution.)
You don't have to read further unless you want to!
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(FROM E-BOOK's BACK COVER...)
Following the critically acclaimed “Field Guide to Postal Uses of the Prominent Americans Series,” this book on the Americana series looks into the regular United States stamps issued for its Bicentennial. The only “workhorse” U.S. postage series designed by a commercial graphics-design firm, the Americana stamps have delighted collectors and postal historians with its unifying design elements and tinted papers ever since the series was initiated in late October, 1975. This field guide takes you through each of the stamps issued and presents the extensive, challenging possible postal uses for them in the 1975 – 1988 timeframe…
* over two dozen designs in different values, issued for "workhorse" postal needs of the mid 1970s & 80s…
* regularly issued varieties in sheet, booklet, and/or coil-roll formats…
* all but one design produced with steel-engraved dies; most printed on tinted papers of “colonial” colors…
* cataloged production varieties and little-publicized ink and color varieties that can be searched for, some eligible for “earliest documented use” hunting…
* dozens of surprisingly short "windows" of usage availability -- tremendous search challenges for stamps on-cover paying certain rates…
… a surprising trove of interesting and challenging postal history for such a “modern” stamp series.
Use this guide to discover the wide variety of collecting or research challenges that await the postal history student or stamp collector looking to specialize. Over 200+ pages include stamp information and usage pictures.
Exclusive "Usage Graphs" fill another 60-some pages, describing various possible uses for the Americana stamps that rival any other series for fun and interest in finding actual examples. 309 pages total, with 185 figures.
(With companion CD showing the guide's covers in full color and enlarged, plus much more in bonus material.)
E-book is an original work of the author, including 142 images, with credits listed for forty-three images provided by others with permission.