Atlanta: Whitman, 2009. 8vo, original processed leather, gilt. 290 pages; illustrated in color. Placard signed by the author affixed to title. Ex George F. Kolbe Library with his bookplate. Fine. Kolbe 247. The special leather-bound edition. More
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. Fine. A handsome production, extensively illustrated and featuring original research and information not found elsewhere. 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
Wayland, Massachusetts: Al Hoch, editor, Jan.-Mar. 1962. Small 8vo, self-covered as issued. 7, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. A rare original issue of this groundbreaking publication. The initial recipients of the CNL were few in number and the first issues were printed by Al Hoch (of later Quarterman fame) in a...... More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. Small 8vo, original tan linen decorated in orange and lettered in black; jacket. xi, (1), 103, (3) pages; 11 portrait plates. Original owner’s signature; near fine. A 1964 reprinting of an essay by the California bibliographer Robert Ernest Cowan, combined in this edition with..... 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
Pass-A-Grille Beach: 1957. (10), 277, (1) pages; illustrated. [with] Criswell, Grover C., Jr., and Clarence L. Criswell. CONFEDERATE AND SOUTHERN STATE BONDS: A DESCRIPTIVE LISTING, INCLUDING RARITY. St. Petersburg Beach, 1961. (14), 310 pages; illustrated. Two volumes. 8vo, original matching mottled white cloth, gilt. Both volumes inscribed by Grover Criswell..... 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
New York: Halcyon House, December 1938. Fourth printing. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; endpaper maps; vibrantly colored jacket. Frontispiece portrait; xi, (3), 423, (1) pages; 13 additional plates. Gift inscription. Fine in near fine jacket. While this edition of Dana’s biography of Sutter is not particularly scarce, copies with well-preserved..... 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
Atlanta: Whitman, 2006. 4to, original pictorial boards; jacket. 576 pages; profusely illustrated in color. Slight tears to jacket; near fine. The standard work. Foreword by Q. David Bowers. Out of print. 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
Lincoln: Quarterman, 1992. 4to, original black cloth, gilt. xii, 218, (2) pages. Near fine. An essential reference, with erudite and astute commentary. 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, 1985. 8vo, original printed orange cloth. x, 186, (4) pages. Fine. The proceedings of the first Coinage of the Americas Conference, featuring articles by Adams, Breen, Clain-Stefanelli, Loring, Cohen, Newman and others. An important collection for collectors of half cents and large cents. 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. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth lettered in black. 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. Very good or better. No..... 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: c. 1931. 8vo, original printed card covers. 47, (1) pages. Fine. Dunham writes, ìAfter nearly seventy years of busy numismatic labor, at the ripe old age of three score and ten plus three, now living on borrowed time, I consider it my duty to leave a slight token..... 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: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1894. 4to [29.5 by 23.5 cm], contemporary green three-quarter morocco with marbled sides; rebacked spine with five raised bands, dated and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt; other page edges untrimmed. Magnificent engraved frontispiece portrait of A.B. Durand by Alfred Jones, with..... More
West Palm Beach: 2019. 4to, original tan cloth, gilt; jacket. v, (1), 137, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. A highly readable and very useful overview of the subject, with a nice balance of historical background and technical (die variety) discussion. Good color photography provides an improvement over earlier works..... 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, Ohio: Kolbe & Fanning, 2017. 8vo, original heavy textured card covers, printed on fine paper. 100 pages; illustrated in color. New. A tribute volume in celebration of George F. Kolbe's 50th anniversary in the field of numismatic books. The 100-page volume brings together short recollections and appreciations of Kolbe..... More