The latest Congress Book (74th) was published in 2008 and released at StampShow in Hartford. The hard cover book contains 218 pages.

Contents:

• 1845 cultural nexus in transportation & communication: express, railroad, telegraph & the post office
• Communist Vietnam military mail stamps: 1958 to the present
• The Minnesota tax on Christmas Trees
• The 1893 2c Columbian imperforate error
• Postal history aspects of the internment of Polish servicemen in Lithuania 1939-40
• Revenue stamps of Trinidad: The “FEE” and “FREE FEE” issues
• Postage dues of the French post office in Zanzibar
• How has the Congress Book changed?

The first Congress Book was published in 1935. It was a 59 page soft cover booklet.

Click here for an online index of the Congress Books 1935-2008

A printed index to the first 72 Congress Books (1935-2006) is available for $42 postpaid to US addresses and $47 postpaid for other destinations. Make checks payable to the American Philatelic Congress and send it to Ross A. Towle; 400 Clayton Street; San Francisco, CA 94117-1912.