Port Clinton, Ohio: BNR Press, 1983. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt. (4), 365, (5) pages. Spotting to top page edges; near fine. A fabled modern rarity. Bloom’s book provides what is widely held to be the best overall portrayal of the modern bank note printing business, an international industry made..... More
Pelham: Whitman, 2021. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xiii, (1), 274 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. More
New York: ANS, 1976. 8vo, original pictorial boards. (6), 216, (2) pages; illustrated. Fine. A fundamental group of essays and required reading for anyone interested in colonials. More
Written on one side of a sheet of a double-sheet ruled self-mailer. Folded for mailing and sealed with wax; torn upon opening, with small loss at left margin present at right attached to wax remnant. Trace of red postmark; hand-rated. Very good. An interesting letter to New York State Comptroller..... More
Tiburon: Kagin’s, 2019. 4to, original pictorial boards; jacket. 52 pages; illustrated in color. New. A history and catalogue of the Treasury Notes printed in an attempt to finance the War of 1812, including non-interest-bearing notes that circulated as the nation’s first paper money. Only 250 copies printed. More
Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, 14th printing. Newman 1-P-14(b). 16mo, original blindstamped brown cloth; front cover lettered in gilt. 32 pages; 10 engraved plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed in the text, with plate 6 serving as a frontispiece, plate 4 printed in red ink..... More
London: Spink, 2009. 4to, original pictorial boards. xx, 679, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. This book weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra international shipping charges. More