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The King George VI Commonwealth Catalogue (18th Edition). Published by Murray Payne Ltd.
Hardbound. ISBN 1 901624 015. Available from Murray Payne, PO Box 1135, Axbridge,
Somerset BS26 2EW, United Kingdom. Price £30. Postage & packing £2.25 UK, £3.50 Europe,
£7.50 Rest of World airmail or £3.50 surface mail world-wide. Payment accepted by credit card. The
notes below are taken from a notice provided by the publishers.

The 18th edition is planned to last for three years and will have revised prices for mounted mint and
used material. The new edition has an added 50+ pages of information, which includes a further 220
varieties, 300 new printings and watermark varieties. Additionally there are easy to follow
identification flowcharts for some of the more complicated issues.

British Censorship of Civil Mails during World War I, 1914-19 by Graham Mark, FRPSL. Published
by The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund. 252 + xxxvi A4 pages, cardbound. ISBN 0 953004 1 9.
Available from Robert Johnson, Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, c/o Osborne Clarke, 50 Queen Charlotte
Street, BRISTOL BS 1 4HE, United Kingdom. Price £25. Postage & packing £5.50 UK, £6.00
Europe, £14.00 Australasia & Far East airmail, £12.50 rest of world airmail; or £6.00 surface mail
world-wide. The notes below are taken from a notice provided by the author.

The author of this new book seeks to fill a long-felt gap in the literature of the postal history of the
20th century. The opening chapters give some background to censorship practices up to the Anglo-
Boer War and preparations following the reconstitution of The Committee of Imperial Defence in
1906. The legal and operational aspects of censorship and its history through the war are explored,
then mails to and from various geographic areas are examined in turn; enemy countries, allies in
Europe, European Neutrals, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Transit mails, inland mails and
special categories are also considered. The analyses of OPENED BY CENSOR labels, slips, notices
and forms are covered in some detail, over 80 pages being devoted to this section.

British Empire Civil Censorship Devices, World War II; Section 1 : Colonies and Occupied
Territories - Africa by D. J. Little. Published by The Civil Censorship Study Group. 295 A4 pages.
ISBN 0-9517444-0-2. Available from the CCSG, 161 Upper Woodcote Road, Caversham,
READING RG4 7JR, United Kingdom. Price £33 including postage & packing in UK or Europe.
Add a further £6.60 for postage elsewhere. Reviewed by Michael Wright.

The title of this book may remind readers of a similarly-named work edited by Dan Mayo in 1978, but
it has been so expanded that it cannot be thought of as a second edition. It is now nearly five times the
size at 295 pages; 42 of these are on Egypt which was not covered by the original work.

Each country or territory is introduced by a narrative piece of varying length, usually based on official
sources which were not released for public scrutiny when Mayo was compiling his work. The
considerable number of newly reported types of handstamps, labels, insert labels and wax seals has
persuaded the author of the necessity of renumbering for most countries the classifications devised by
Mayo (and by Gabriel Boulad for Egypt). As well as having new types and longer lists of numbers
under types, there are illustrations of many whole covers as well as of nearly all the basic types.