Glendale: c. 1979. Three black-and-white contact sheets with matching 35 mm negatives, plus actual size enlarged prints of 17 items and a 3-page inventory of the photos. Some markings on contact sheets; otherwise fine. A photographic record of some of the rare and fascinating pieces included in this important collection..... More

South Gate: 1991. Large 4to, original pictorial white card covers, gilt. Frontispiece portrait; (8), 50 pages; 702 listings; 36 plates. Price list laid in. Fine. A handsome production, extensively illustrated and featuring original research and information not found elsewhere. More

(Wakefield): 1984. First edition. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt. iv, 51 duplicated typescript leaves; illustrated, including paper money. Fine. Special Hardbound Edition. Scarce. Sullivan 649. More

New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. Frontispiece portrait; (iii)–xi, (1), 423, (5) pages; 13 additional plates. Inscribed and signed by the author (see comments). Very good or better in a very good, price-clipped jacket. A popular biography of the famous settler..... More

Dated 3 September 1845. On double-sheet stationary [20 by 25 cm] of Danforth, Bald, Spencer & Huffy, but with “Bald” struck out in most instances. Folded into a stampless cover with a New York postmark dated 3 September 1845 for 5 cents. Generally fine and preserved within a custom-made acid-free..... More

Fullerton: 2018. Two volumes, complete. 4to, original black cloth, gilt; housed in original slipcase, as issued. (6), 1031, (1) pages; nearly 2000 illustrations, generally in color. New. Numismatic Literary Guild 2019 Book of the Year. A massive and groundbreaking work that will remain the standard reference on varieties of United..... More

(No place): New Jersey Bankers Association, 1942. 8vo, original printed card covers. viii, 98, (2) pages. Copies of Supplement Nos. 3 and 5 laid in. Near fine. One of the best works on the subject, by the main bibliographer of bank note reporters and counterfeit detectors. More

New York: ANS, 2003. 4to, brown cloth, gilt, jacket. x, 126 pages. Fine. A transcription of the important manuscript by Douglas in the ANS Library, supplemented with commentary by a number of scholars. More

San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Second edition. 8vo, original dark red textured card covers lettered in orange. Color frontispiece portrait; (8), 30, (6) pages, including four-page signature tipped in after page 30, as issued; other full page and text illustrations, including a facsimile of a Norton 50¢ note. Fine. A..... More

(Los Angeles): (1932). Small three-ring binder with tabs, housing approximately 175 leaves of early duplicated typescript, which have been very heavily annotated by a collector. A few leaves detached, but present. Very good or so. The first copy we have handled of this extremely rare work. This was the first..... More

New York: 1851. Second edition. 8vo, original brown cloth paneled in blind and lettered in gilt. (6), 72, (2), xvi, 2, (16), 2 pages; 5 lithographic plates, mostly depicting pioneer gold coins. Spine worn with backstrip partly lacking; very good or so, but with bright unspotted pages. Originally published in..... More

Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2020. Crown 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. 288 pages; illustrated in color throughout. Signed copies available upon request. New. A bibliography and analysis of American auction catalogues issued before the Second World War that feature photographically printed illustrations of ancient coins. Includes biographical material concerning..... More

Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2019. Oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers housed within original black and red cloth portfolio lettered in gilt. 40 pages; illustrated in color; original leaf from Thian’s The Currency of the Confederate States of America housed within archival Mylar holder. The leaf comprising pages 397–398, giving..... More