Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. New. 8vo, original red cloth, black morocco spine label, gilt. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding color plate; 32 duotone plates. New. One of 450 cloth-bound copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt mouldmade paper by the Bird & Bull Press. More
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. New. 8vo, original black quarter morocco, decorative paper sides, red morocco spine label, gilt, red cloth slipcase. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding color plate; 32 fine duotone plates of medals. New. Deluxe edition. One of 50 numbered copies, of an entire edition limited to 500 copies..... More
New York: ANS, 2005. 8vo, original cream cloth, gilt; jacket. vii, (1), 75, (1) pages; 9 plates. New. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 167. An excellent work, by far the most authoritative on this difficult yet fascinating subject. More
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2001. Reprint. New. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. 270 pages; frontispiece portrait of the author; 22 plates. Accompanied by "Additions and Corrections" booklet. New. More
Mission Viejo: George Frederick Kolbe, 1982. First edition. 4to, original red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges speckled; printed throughout in red and black. Frontispiece; 270, (2) pages; 22 additional plates; pictorial endpapers. Fine. One of 500 copies of the original printing, bound by..... More
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1990. New. 4to, red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges speckled; printed throughout in red and black. Frontispiece; 418, (2) pages; 21 additional plates; pictorial endpapers. New. One of 500 numbered copies, bound by hand and printed on acid free..... More
Crestline: George F. Kolbe, 1990. Tall 4to [29.5 by 23 cm], original red half calf with gray cloth sides; spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; printed in red and black. Frontispiece; 418, (2) pages; 21 additional plates. Untrimmed; pictorial endpapers mounted in place. New. One of..... More
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. New. Large 8vo, original linen, leather spine label, gilt. 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color. New. More
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. New. Large 8vo, brown full morocco, leather spine label, gilt, cloth clamshell box. 351, (1) pages; 57 color plates and an original engraving for J.F. Loubat's "The Medallic History of the United States." New. Special edition. A Leaf book limited to 60 copies letterpress printed..... More
Lawrence: Quarterman, 1976. 4to, original tan printed cloth; jacket in clear protective cover. xv, (1), 205, (3) pages; illustrated. Fine. Reprints the essential publications on the subject by Crosby, Maris, Frossard, Elder and Chapman. Davis 11. More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press [Henry Morris], 2007. Crown 4to, original red quarter morocco and Japanese silk boards with mounted roundel printed by Morris; spine with black morocco spine label, gilt. 59, (15) pages; 4-page insert of stochastically printed illustrations of Comitia Americana medals; 2-page insert from Morrisís letterpress edition..... More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2010. 4to, original cream cloth, gilt; jacket. 240 pages, illustrated in color. New. The comprehensive standard reference work on Admiral Vernon medals. "One of the signal triumphs of modern numismatic scholarship." — Joel J. Orosz. More
New York: ANS, 2010. 4to, original tan cloth lettered in black; jacket. ix, (1), 294 pages; well illustrated, largely in color. New. Studies in Medallic Art, No. 1. An important recent work on the subject. More
Dallas: Heritage, 2017. First printing. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 64 pages; illustrated in color. New. NLG Extraordinary Merit, 2017. A specialized study of this important rarity. More
Detroit: Aug. 24-29, 1940. 8vo, original printed card covers. (20) pages; illustrated. Very good or better. [with] Detroit Coin Club. THE DETROIT KORN CLUB SNOOZE. ìFirst & Last Issue,î Aug. 28, 1940, ìPrice 1 Saw Buck.î Single sheet, 28 by 16.5 cm, printed on one side. Folded. Fine. [with] Detroit..... More
Cincinnati: Aug. 25, 1942. 8vo, original orange printed card covers. 71, (1) pages; 1190 lots. Near fine. The 1942 ANA sale, as printed in the Official Program. Scarce in either this form or as an offprint. More
New York: ANS, 1983. First edition. 4to, original printed card covers. 38 pages. Fine. Distributed in very limited numbers. More
New York: The De Vinne Press, 1906. (8) pages, 8 fine plates of plans and views. Original printed tan wrappers and outer pages a trifle discolored; near fine. Included is a history of the American Numismatic Society, and a brief account of the collection ("about 30,000 specimens of coins, medals..... 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
Dallas: Heritage, 2017. Revised. Edited by James L. Halperin. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xiii, (1), 418 pages; well illustrated in color. New. The award-winning biography of one of America's finest numismatists, whose extraordinary collection was formed over the course of nearly ninety years, and whose publications remain the standard..... More
Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1974. 8vo, original blue embossed textured card covers printed in silver. 104 pages; illustrated, partly in color; map. Fine. This book was produced to commemorate the issuance of the Chickasaw medal on January 1, 1974. It is No. 30 of 15,000 copies and signed by Overton..... More
Pelham: Whitman, 2019. 8vo, original pictorial boards. xv, (1), 336 pages; illustrated in color. New. Forword by Q. David Bowers. 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
Minneapolis: September 12–13, 1997. 4to, bound in the original maroon processed half leather; flat spines lettered in gilt; moiré cloth sides; marbled paper and moiré cloth flyleaves; prices realized printed in red ink by each lot. Fine. Deluxe Hardbound Edition. More
Providence: Society of Colonial Wars, 1942. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. x, 112 pages; 10 plates, 4 of them impressions of colonial currency taken from the original copperplates, printed on parchment and tipped into place. Fine. A well-preserved copy of this less-frequently seen work on colonial counterfeiting. Clain-Stefanelli 13653. Davis..... More