Identifier - Carriers Locals Fakes Forgeries Bogus Posts of US Larry Lyons 3Vols

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PROGRAPHICSCORP2007
Bellingham and Lakewood, Washington
It is time for me to do books again.  I have a hundred or so that are in-demand and worth selling, and several hundred that are not quite worth the effort of selling and shipping.  Hopefully, this is one that falls within my "in-demand" category.
The Identifier for Carriers, Locals, Fakes, Forgeries and Bogus Posts of the United States
in 3 volumes by Larry Lyons, self-published, each volume about 8-1/2 by 11 inches, hard covers, black, red and green as shown, with gilt titles, 1296 total stated pages plus separately numbered numerous addenda and index pages.  Everything is about mint.  Author signed on front fly-leaf of first volume.
I cannot imagine a more complete or thorough treatment of the subject, and I also cannot imagine one person doing all of this.
The cheapest price I can currently find online for this set is 5.
The Identifier
for
Carriers, Locals, Fakes, Forgeries
Bogus Posts
of The United States
by Larry Lyons
Color Illustrations
Typical Pair of Pages
The illustrations are excellent, considerably better than the above renditions. Volume one contains 129 posts, 934 pictures and 428 sketches. A major work for any classic US collector and indispensable for the collector of locals, carriers and forgeries.
Vol 1, 1998, Covers Ackers to Empire, 496 pages, cloth.
Vol 2, 1998, Covers Essex to Putman, 490 pages, cloth.
Vol 3, 1998, Covers Raymonds to Ziebers, 512 pages, cloth.
GENERAL COMMENTS
We started out selling philatelic literature as a spin-off from our selling stamps, stamp collections and postal history.  However, as more and more books and libraries drop into our laps, philatelic literature has become one of our major categories. Many philatelic reference books are collectible in their own right. Most are out of print. We try to price according to collectibility, condition, rarity, and to a much lesser extent their value as reference guides.  Additionally, and on a condition-compared-to-condition basis, we try to undercut the competition.
Another comment about value as an inherent collectible, as compared to value as a reference guide: The truth is that more detailed and more up-to-date information is going to be available on the internet, but then you would not have that rare and hard-to-find book sitting there on the shelf, would you!  And, if you use a book as a working reference copy, what's easier:  Carrying a book into a stamp show or lugging in your computer?
Dust jackets: In the field of modern literary first editions, the lack of a dust jacket is death. I see a totally different result when it comes to philatelic literature. Many such books never came with a dust jacket to begin with, while some books I have seen with jackets and at the same time -- the very same book -- still in shrinkwrap and without dust jacket. If I show a book with dust jacket, then you are going to get that book with a dust jacket. If I do not show a dust jacket, then no dust jacket, and maybe the book never had one to start with. (Or maybe it did.)
When it comes to books and stamps, "very fine" pretty much means the same thing. However, "good' when it comes to books is still a pretty nice item, while "good" when it comes to stamps is a dog. The book you bring home new from the book store might rate only a "fine" rating, but still be close to as-new. A "fine" stamp on the other hand is no great shakes.
We ship by Media Mail within the United States.  We also will happily ship to Canada.  We will do the best we can to minimize the cost of postage, but it is still going to be expensive.  Honestly, we will ship to most any foreign country, but the cost will usually be more than the buyer is willing to pay.  Time-wise, we cannot afford to get into long discussions - often turning into arguments - about why it costs so much.  We do not make a profit on shipping.  We always use the United States Postal Service, they are bigger than we are and do not give us much of a discount, and eBay and PayPal even take a small percentage of the funds the buyer pays us for shipping, meaning that we actually take a loss on shipping.  Please try to at least a superficial investigation into shipping costs before asking us.  Thank you kindly!
Free shipping within the U.S.
This item will be shipped from United States zip code 98498.