Books and Catalogues on Rocket Mail


  • Pioneer Rocket Mail & Space Mail

    Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing Apollo 11, the compendium and catalog "Pioneer Rocket Mail & Space Mail" will be finally published in English. It replaces the Ellington-Zwisler catalog, which was a must to have for the serious rocket mail collector for the past 50 years. Rocket launches including technical, historical, biographical and philatelic backgrounds are described in detail and are easy to understand. The collector value of flown covers and rocket vignettes are showing this book as well.

    Content
    - Pioneer Rocket Mail
    - Cosmic Mail from Manned Projects
    - Cosmic Mail from Unmanned Projects
    - Signatures of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

    Author : Walter Hopferwieser
    Editor : Own publication
    Year : 2019
    Pages : 544 pages Full Color

  • Pionierraketenpost und Kosmische Post

    The "New Bible" for all flown rocket- and space material. Walter Hopferwieser has worked more than 5 years in this catalogue, building on his previous work "Kosmische Post" from 1993. He read hundreds of papers and books on this matter, did great research to write this unique rocket- and space-mail catalogue.

    Content
    - Pioneer Rocket Mail
    - Cosmic Mail from Manned Projects
    - Cosmic Mail from Unmanned Projects
    - Signatures of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

    Author : Walter Hopferwieser
    Editor : Austria Netto Katalog Verlag
    Year : 2016
    Pages : 510 pages Full Color

  • Raketenpost Friedrich Schmiedl

    This catalogue is a supplement to the catalogue on Austrian Air Mail published in 1998. It catalogues all the Schmiedl rocket mail and gives a value to each and every letter and card, flown aboard the Schmiedl rockets.

    Author : Roland F. Kohl & Walter M. Hopferwieser
    Editor : Pollischansky Verlag
    Year : 2003
    Pages : 60 pages

  • Der Österreichische Raketenpionier Friedrich Schmiedl

    This is an in depth story of the Austrian rocket mail history and especially on the rocket experiments by Friedrich Schmiedl.

    All rocket flights are described, all letters and cards are listed, all vignettes are listed. A must read for every fan of rocket mail !

    Author : Karl Trobas
    Editor : RM Verlag, Graz
    Year : 1992
    Pages : 700 pages B/W

  • Der Österreichische Raketenpionier Friedrich Schmiedl - Teaser

    This booklet is a teaser for the big book from the same author with the same title.

    Author : Karl Trobas
    Editor : RM Verlag, Graz
    Year : 1992
    Pages : 28 pages B/W

  • From the Diary of Stephen Smith

    Stephen Smith made at least 270 experiments with rocket mail firings and he is believed to have kept records of all these. The book gives in depth details of about 69 flights in Bengal and Sikkim.

    Author : D.N. Jatia
    Editor : Philatelic Congress of India
    Year : 1980
    Pages : 62 pages

  • Rocket Mail Catalogue - Volume 1

    Period 1904 - 1967

    The E-Z Rocket Mail Catalog covers worldwide rocket mail materials, including covers, cards and stamps. Countries are listed alphabetically. The dat of each flight is listed and the flights are listed chronologically for each country.

    Author : Jesse T. Ellington & Perry F. Zwisler Editor : American Air Mail Society Year : 1967 Pages : 245 pages B/W

  • Rocket Mail Catalogue - Volume 2

    Period 1968 - 1972

    This Volume 2, under the able editorship of Perry Zwisler (Jesse Ellington, co-editor of the first edition, having passed away) updates their original effort through 1972. As stated in the introduction it lists only material known to have been flown in rockets.

    Author : (Jesse T. Ellington &) Perry F. Zwisler Editor : American Air Mail Society Year : 1973 Pages : 168 pages B/W

  • Rocket Mail Flight of the World

    The book narrates the story of rocket mail, from the siege of Paris in 1870 over the period before WW 2 in different countries. After WW 2, experiments with rockets went on in Europe and United States.

    Author : Max Kronstein Editor : American Air Mail Society Year : 1986 Pages : 192 pages

  • Rocket Mail Catalogue

    This is Volume 8 of Billig's Specialized Catalogues.

    The catalogue gives a review on rocket flights in 18 countries as Germany, Great-Britain, Holland, USA, etc. and ends with a large description of the 'Historical Survey of First Experiments in Rocketry' by Stephen Smith.

    Author : Fritz Billig
    Editor : Fritz Billig
    Year : 1955 (2nd Ed.)
    Pages : 68 pages

  • Raketenpost Katalog

    This catalogue goes on Official rocket mail, the development of rocket mail in Germany before and after WW 2. Finally Yugoslavia and Austria are mentioned (Schmiedl).

    Author : H.W. Sieger Editor : Sieger Verlag Year : 1971 - 3rd Ed. Pages : 244 pages B/W

  • De Ruimtevaart Raket

    Booklet by Dr. A.J. de Bruyn in Dutch language, where he thinks about rocket flights and describes the first rocket flights he did in Holland. The speech he has held at the Krasnapolsky Hotel in Amsterdam on May 13th 1945 is also written down.

    Author : Dr. A.J. de Bruyn Editor : J.K. Smit & Zn, Amsterdam Year : 1945 Pages : 32 pages