The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world /: inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Barron.
• Authors: Barron, James, 1954-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: One.Stamp World -- Two.Travels with David -- Three.One Cent -- 1856: Printed, Sold, and Forgotten -- Four.Six Shillings -- 1873: Found by a Twelve-Year-Old -- Five.£120 -- 1878: Glasgow and London -- Six.£150 -- 1878: The Man in the Yachting Cap -- Seven.$32, 500 -- 1922: The Plutocrat with the Cigar -- Eight.$40, 000 -- 1940: The Angry Widow, Macy's, and the Other Plutocrat -- Nine.$286, 000 -- 1970: The Wilkes-Barre Eight -- Ten.$935, 000 -- 1980: "The Man Showed Up" -- Eleven.$9.5 Million -- 2014: "I Expected to See Magenta, and I Saw Magenta".
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Affirm Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 769.569881; Rare postage stamps -- Guyana -- History; Stamp collectors -- Biography; Stamp collecting -- History; Rare postage stamps; Stamp collecting; Stamp collectors; Guyana; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781925584073; 1925584070
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.