N.p. 2020. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 274 pages; fully illustrated in color. New. A well-illustrated and easy to use guide to identifying die varieties of early United States large cents. More
Pelham: Whitman, 2020. Second Edition. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. viii, 440 pages; illustrated in color. New. More
Pelham: Whitman, 2021. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xiii, (1), 274 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. More
Pelham: Whitman, 2021. Edited by Jeff Garrett, Q. David Bowers and Kenneth Bressett. Small 8vo, original red leatherette, gilt. 460, (2) pages; illustrated in color. New. The "Red Book," the best-selling annual price guide to United States coins. More
2017. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 343, (1) pages; illustrated in color. Signed by author on title page. Fine. An expanded and revised edition of the original work by William Anton and Bruce Kesse. More
New York: ANS, 1943. 16mo, original printed tan card covers. (6), 55, (3) pages; 16 fine plates, all but last double, some with tissue overlays. Fine. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 102. A foundational work on the subject. 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
Includes: Mease’s 1834 “Description of Some of the Medals, Struck in Relation to Important Events in North America, before and since the Declaration of Independence by the United States,” Fisher’s 1837 “Description of American Medals,” and Mease’s “Old American Coins,” all of which were originally published in the Collections of..... More
Vienna: Bangs. 8vo, later red three-quarter morocco; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers mostly bound in [two with later vinyl covers bound in]. Includes sales dated: February 27–28, 1880; April 3, 1880; June 5, 1880; June 28–29, 1880; September 17, 1880; and September 28..... 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
Racine: Whitman, 1948 and 1950. 3rd and 4th editions (1949–1950 and 1951–1952). Two volumes. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. Each 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Third edition very good with mostly faded cover gilt but relatively bright spine gilt. Fourth edition is only good, and is shaken. Two early editions..... More
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1976. 8vo, card covers. (2), 35, (3) pages. Fine. An unusual production, with the introduction noting that Arnold’s “essay is crotchety, at best, to the point of perverseness, and one might well question the wisdom of giving it wider currency by here reprinting it.” The essay..... More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1939. 8vo, original decorative orange cloth, decorated in gilt and black; pictorial jacket. 286 pages; frontispiece and 28 other plates, 2 depicting Emperor Norton scrip. Dust jacket sunned on spine and a bit worn at top edge; previous owner’s signature on front flyleaf; very good. The..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. First edition. 8vo, original russet cloth, gilt; jacket. Frontispiece; (12), 368 pages; 15 additional plates. Near fine. Among the most important collections of primary accounts of the Gold Rush era. Kurutz, California Gold Rush: A Descriptive Bibliography, #36. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush, #11: “Well..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1954. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in black; jacket. 186 pages. Spine sunned; else near fine. A popular biography of John Augustus Sutter (1803–1880), on whose property gold was discovered in January 1848, setting in motion the California Gold Rush. More
San Ramon: 2005. 8vo, original pictorial boards. ix, 139, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. A guide to the provenances of a number of important 1794 large cents, with much information on notable collectors. 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
Ypsilanti: 2006–2015. Six volumes. 4to, original matching maroon leatherette, gilt. Over 2400 pages; fine enlarged color text illustrations of large cents throughout. New. Well-illustrated attribution guides with significant condition-census data. The complete set. This set weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra international shipping charges. More
Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2018. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xxii, 506 pages; illustrated in color. New. The long-awaited work on these poorly understood coins, and the new standard reference. More
Ann Arbor: Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2015. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xviii, 462 pages; illustrated. New. The new standard work, covering the 1670 Gloriam Regni coinage, the 1717 Perpignan coppers and the 1721-22 9 deniers. More
Paris: Imprimerie de Ad. Lainé et J. Havard, 1861. 12mo, later black half morocco with decorative sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed russet paper covers bound in; all page edges speckled blue. 134, (2) pages. Contemporary notation on from paper cover. Fine. A..... More
(Fort Worth): c. 1931. Original typewritten carbon copy of the inventory of the colonial and early American portion of the Waldo C. Newcomer collection. 37 leaves, typewritten in three columns (Date / Description / Cost) on one side of each sheet of onion-skin carbon-copy paper. Held together with two brass..... More
Racine: Whitman, 1951. Fifth (1952–1953) edition. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. 254, (2) pages. Inscribed to contributor Paul Slosson and signed by Yeoman on the contributors’ page. Front cover gilt pretty strong; spine gilt more faded but clear. Small ink notation (“S5”) at top of spine; a little shaken. Very..... More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2019. Three sales bound together. SALE 155. February 1, 2020. 84 pages; 425 lots; illustrated. [bound with] SALE 156. May 30, 2020. 86 pages; 419 lots; illustrated. [bound with] SALE 158. November 21, 2020. 72 pages; 467 lots; illustrated. 4to, original black cloth, gilt; original pictorial..... 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