First Edition, First Printing Red Book
Yeoman, R.S. A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS. CATALOG AND PRICE LIST-1616 TO DATE... First (1947) edition, first printing. Racine: Whitman, 1946. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Binding shaken, with tape marks on the endpapers indicating the past use of a jacket. Cover gilt rather bright, and spine gilt fairly well-preserved, but only good to very good. The first printing of the first edition, with decent gilt on the binding. Eighteen thousand copies of the first edition were issued, divided equally between the first and second printing. In the first printing, as here, the paragraph near the bottom of page 135 concludes with: "...the scarcity of this date." The second printing concludes with: "...the scarcity of 1903 O."