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.
Evansville: 1983. Five double-sided typed and stapled sheets. Pencil markings. Ex Del Bland library. Fine. An infrequently encountered fixed price list of U.S. half cents belonging to an anonymous collector (identified by Del Bland as Ricky Gross on this copy).
No publisher information. 4to, unpaginated color copies housed in black 3-ring binder, as issued. New. Self-published records of the author’s own collection, placed into historical context with good illustrations and considerable discussion. Some of the pages have ink smudges from the printing process used.
No publisher information. 4to, unpaginated color copies housed in black 3-ring binder, as issued. New. Self-published records of the author’s own collection, placed into historical context with good illustrations and considerable discussion. Some of the pages have ink smudges from the printing process used.
Woodside: 1990. Eighth edition. 4to, original green leatherette, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. Limitation leaf; vii, (1), 368 pages. Binding a bit worn; very good or better. Del Bland’s annotated copy of the limited deluxe edition of the eighth (the latest printed) edition of this essential bibliographic aid...
Beverly Hills: Sept. 6, 2009; May 30, 2010; September 19, 2010; January 30, 2011. Four volumes complete. 4to, original matching card covers. Illustrated in color throughout. Part III includes The Davy Collection of Half Cent Errors bound with it, as issued. Cumulative prices realized list included. Near fine or better...
Providence: Millard & Harker, Fancy Job Printers, 1868. Revised edition. 16mo, later green quarter calf, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 10, (2) pages. Binding sunned; rear card cover corner chipped; near fine. Rare: the first copy we have offered in twenty years. Almost certainly from the Armand Champa...
8vo, original green textured cloth, gilt. October 20, 1951. 64 pages; 1493 lots. Prices realized printed alongside each lot; printed prices realized list also included. Near fine.
Orlando: 1991. Fourth revised edition. 4to, original blue cloth printed in silver. xi, (1), 507, (28) pages; well illustrated. Fine. The final edition of the classic reference on the subject. Sill essential.
New York: 2005. Thick 4to, original pictorial boards. 800 pages; text illustrations; 12 color plates. Fine.
Baltimore: Oct. 21–23, 1997. 4to, original pictorial card covers. xvi, 303, (1); 1264 lots; including 16 color plates; illustrated throughout, including many coin enlargements. Prices realized list laid in. Fine. Includes Pittman’s Canadian and colonial coins, and U.S. minor denominations, patterns, commemoratives, proof sets, gold $1, $5 and $20, and private/territorial gold.
Wolfeboro: Bowers and Merena, 1994. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt. xi, (1), 498, (2) pages. Fine. A vast expansion of the relatively limited information to be found in the classic Judd reference at the time.
New York: March 16–17, 1988. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 244 pages; 774 lots; numerous monochrome text illustrations, many enlarged; 8 pages of full-color illustrations of large cents in the text. Prices realized list and Preview mailing laid in. Signed by Halpern on his biography page. Fine. One of the...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. 8vo, original tan cloth, gilt; jacket. xvi, 339, (1) pages; 51 plates. Near fine with jacket showing some wear and small tears. Though it has been surpassed by more recent scholarship, this remains one of the greatest books ever written about U.S....
New York: Harper & Brothers / John J. Ford, Jr. Numisco Series, 1965 printing of 1958 edition. 8vo, original tan cloth, gilt; jacket. xii, 340 pages; 51 plates. Jacket near perfect. Fine. Though it has been surpassed by more recent scholarship, this is one of the greatest book ever written...
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.
Wolfeboro: Bowers and Merena, 2003. Second edition. 4to, original pictorial boards. 263, (1) pages; well illustrated. Fine. The latest edition of Breen and Gillio on small-sized California gold. Out of print and in demand.
Santa Barbara: 1983. First edition. 4to, original pictorial card covers. (2), 160 pages; well illustrated. Inscribed by Walter Breen to John Donohueat the ANA Seminar, Colorado Springs, 7/11/90. Fine. Originally written as an auction catalogue of the famous collection formed by Ed and Kenny Lee, this work features a great...
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 8vo, original gray cloth printed in white; jacket. 138 pages; illustrated, some in color. Fine.
Congress, Arizona: 2013. 4to, original pictorial boards. 903, (5) pages; illustrated in color. Corner bumps; near fine. A massive and thorough work on what is perhaps the greatest controversy of 20th-century U.S. numismatics.
4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. Ann Arbor: Colonial Coin Collectors' Club, 2015. 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.
St. Joseph, 1992. 4to, original white cloth, lettered in copper. (28), 335, (3) pages; coin enlargements throughout the text; 27 plates of coins with text; rarity table. Inscribed and signed by the author. Fine. The standard work on the middle dates.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1923. 8vo, original printed card covers. viii, 9-98, xii unopened pages. Fine. Published in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science series. Builds on the previous work by Clarence Gould published in the same series. Clain-Stefanelli 13331. Davis 77.
New York: Harper & Brothers / John J. Ford, Jr. Numisco Series, 1965 printing of 1958 edition. 8vo, original tan cloth, gilt; jacket. xii, 340 pages; 51 plates. Jacket minor wear; near fine. Though it has been surpassed by more recent scholarship, this is one of the greatest book ever...
New York: June 13-14, 1984. 8vo, original brown leatherette, spine and front lettered in gilt. 156 pages; 893 lots; illustrated throughout and on 8 color plates. Prices realized list laid in. Fine. A scarcer binding variant of the Special Hardbound Edition with a gilt-lettered front cover rather than the mounted card cover.
