Literature - World, various countries

Quality: LIT

Russia, Catalogue of the Russian Rural Postage Stamps; F. G. Chuchin; Commissioner for Philately and Vouchers of the USSR, Moscow; 1925; Printed; stapled; English; 204 pag.; soft cover; in reasonable condition;" The very first edition of the legendary Chuchin catalogue of Russian Zemstvo stamps, the original English-language version, absolutely complete including the fold-out map (split into full-page fragments). the soft cover is, as always, in poor condition, but the pages themselves are very good, with the original lot label from a David Feldman auction stating that this was the first copy they ever sold, described as "very rare", which is really an understatement for this book, one of the trophies of any advanced philatelic library."