American Air Mail Society Founded 1923

George D. Kingdom Literature Award

George D. Kingdom Literature Award

Given annually to the best overall aerophilatelic catalog, book, monograph, or pamphlet published in the previous year.  AAMS publications are not eligible for this award.

1987 Douglas A. Walker:  Airmails of New Zealand, Volume 2
1989 Peter Moeller:  Eurasia Aviation
1990 Gerard Collot and Alain Cornu:  Ligne Mermoz – Histoire – Aerophilatelique –
1991 Roger G. Stanley-Smith:  The North Atlantic Catapult
1992 Henri Nierinck:  Recovered Mail
1993 Richard Beith:  LATI Italian South Atlantic Air Service 1939-1941
1994 Pierre Saulgrain:  100 Ans de Poste Aerienne en France 1870-1960
1995 John Duggan and James W. Graue:  Commercial Zeppelin Flights to South America
1996 Charles E. Cwiakala:  Bermuda by Air
1997 Jon E. Krupnick:  Pan American’s Pacific Pioneers
1998 Egil Thomassen:  Norwegian Air Mail
1999 Ronald G. Wike:  Airmails of Trinidad and Tobago
2000 Dr. Duncan Crewe and Nick Halewood:  Hong Kong Airmails
2001 Adolph Ackerman:  Via the Red Skies
2002 Nils Ramm-Ericson:  Airmails of Siam
2003  Kendall C. Sanford:  Air Crash Mails of Imperial Airways and Predecessor Airlines
2004 Osvalda Portaluppi, Anthony Chytil and Ramón Benite: Historia Postal Del Correo Aéreo del Paraguay ( Air Mail Postal History of Paraguay)
2005 Hans E. Aitink & Egbert Hovenkamp: Bridgeing the Continents in Wartime: Important Airmail Routes 1938-1945.
2006 Dr. Edwardo Madsen: Handbook of Aeropostal History of Chile 1916-2006
2007 Fiorenzo Longhi: Aerofilia Italiano Cataligo Descritto 1898-1941
2008 Nicholas Arrow: South African Airmails.
2019 Wiliam Colley: The Air Mails of East Africa to 1952.
2010 Fiorenzo Longhi: Catalongo Storico Discrittivo Delgi Aerogrammi Zeppelin di Italia Colonie Italianne, San Marino, Vatican City-1929 to 1939.
2011 Tom Frommer, Australia: The Ross Smith Stamp & Its Postal History
2012 Dieter Leder, Germany: LZ129 Hindenburg-Zeppelin Crash Mail
2013 Nicholas Arrow: South African Airmails, Second Edition
2014 James W. Graue, USA: German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail Flights 1929-1935
2015 Laurence Kimpton, UK: Airmails Across the Middle East 1919-1930
2016 J.L.C.M. TSchroots & H.H.C. TSchroots-Boer: Aviation & Airmakl Encyclopedia, Volume 2
2018 Jan C. ter Welte, Jusqu’a Handstamps and other Route Indications-2nd Revised Edition
2018 Swiss Airmail Handbook 2018 edition
2019 Brian Peace, “Australiasian Crash Mail and Mail from Other Incidents”
Volume Two – 1931-1935
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