635 Welcome
to APS StampShow 2008636 Schedule
of Events
643 Dealer Bourse
648 Floor Plan of the Connecticut Convention
Center
649 Participating Societies & Organizations
650 World Series of Philately
652 Champion of Champions
653 Open Competition
657 Literature Competition
660 StampShow Book Reviewby Charles J. Peterson Murder
and Stamps in
Philatelic Fiction — A review of Tiffany Dinner 
guest
speaker Lawrence Block’s
newest thriller, Hit and Run.
Featured Columns
620 Collecting
Coast to Coast — Wayne
Youngblood The Search for
Quivera ... or an excuse to create a cover — Undertaking
“impossible” quests are nothing new to philatelists,
and even an incomplete success can be satisfying.
626 Back-of-the-Book — David
Straight
Taxing
Postcards — On three occasions in the
twentieth
century, postcards were 
singled out for
taxation in Persia and
Slovakia.630
Back to Basics — Ada Prill
First Day Cover Vocabulary — A
primer in the esoteric language of first day cover collecting.
670
Inside the NPM — Allen Kane
Summer at theMuseum — The
NPM is marking the anniversary of the “Black Hardings” issue
stamp with special exhibit.
696 Worldwide in a Nutshell — Bob
Lamb Dominica — A
volcanic island in the Caribbean
governed variously by France and Great Britain
and now a parliamentary democracy in the British Commonwealth
