James Bendon

James Bendon was born in 1937.[1] In 1980, he married Robyn L. Shenker in the Chelsea district of London.[2]

Bendon traded as a stamp dealer, first in the United Kingdom and later in Cyprus from where his first book on specimen stamps, UPU Specimen Stamps, was self-published in 1988. The book was the first worldwide account of the method of distribution of specimen stamps among the members of the Universal Postal Union,[3] earlier works having concentrated on the stamps of Britain or British Commonwealth countries. In 2015, an updated edition was published with colour illustrations and expanded content including a reprint in an appendix of the pioneering article "The Distribution of SPECIMEN Stamps by the U.P.U." by Marcus Samuel that originally appeared in Stamp Collecting in 1964/65.[4]

Encouraged by the success of his book on specimen stamps, from 1991 Bendon began to publish philatelic works by others, starting with James Negus's Philatelic Literature: Compilation Techniques and Reference Sources in 1991 which was followed the same year by a reprinting with a new introduction by Kenneth F. Chapman of the Harris index to philatelic literature edited by James Negus. In all, Bendon published nearly 50 books including a number of reprints of classic works, before he sold his stock of literature to Chris Komondy of Triad Publications.[1]

Bendon became a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1991 and was subsequently elected a fellow of the society.[5]

• UPU Specimen Stamps: The Distribution of Specimen Stamps by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union. Edited by James Negus. James Bendon, Limassol, Cyprus, 1988. ISBN 9789963762415
• UPU Specimen Stamps 1878–1961. Oxford Book Projects, 2015. ISBN 978-1870696050

(All published by James Bendon in Limassol)

• Negus, James. (1991) Philatelic Literature: Compilation Techniques and Reference Sources. ISBN 978-9963762439
• Negus, James. (Ed.) (1991) The Harris Index to Philatelic Literature 1879–1925: Reprint Edition of The Standard Index to Philatelic Literature 1879–1925 with Additional Material. ISBN 9963762441
• Nishioka, Tatsuiji. 65 Years in Stamps: A Philatelic History of the Showa Period. ISBN 978-9963579679
• Van den Bold, W.E.J. (1994) Handbook of Thematic Philately. ISBN 978-9963579709
• Cohn, Ernst M. (1995) Ordinary Mail by Diplomatic Means during the Siege of Paris 1870–1871. ISBN 978-9963579723
• Lowe, Robson & Carl Walske. (1996) The Oneglia Engraved Forgeries Commonly Attributed to Angelo Panelli. ISBN 9963-579-73-6.
• Mackay, James A. (1997) Under the Gum: Background to British Stamps 1840–1940. ISBN 978-9963579761

• Biography in Cyprus Weekly, 25 December 1991, p. 21.

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