Limited Edition: 500 copies, printed on acid-free paper 420 pages, frontispiece portrait, 21 plates, pictorial endsheets. Red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, printed throughout in red and black ink.
The most detailed work ever written on the topic. Arranged in seventeen chapters devoted to the major American numismatic auction firms of the first half of the twentieth century, including B. Max Mehl, Wayte Raymond, Stack's, A. Kosoff, New Netherlands, and Thomas Elder. Part One comprises a history of the firm and a detailed listing of each of their catalogues. Part Two consists of tables, grading the content of each catalogue in twenty-six different numismatic categories. Indispensable to numismatic researchers and bibliohiles alike.