Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 163 30 Apr 2022
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Partial Set of the Numismatist
American Numismatic Association. THE NUMISMATIST. Fifty-two complete volumes, being those for: 1923, 1932, 1940–1949, 1952–1957, 1960, 1967–1988, 1991–1999 and 2008–2009, as well as nearly complete volumes (lacking one or two issues each) for 1950, 1958, 1961, 1989, 1990, 2000–2002 and 2010. Also present are the Index to Volumes 52–71, the convention proceedings for 1941 and 1942, and the December 1948 and July 1957 Membership Directories & By-Laws. A number of additional issues from incomplete volumes are present. Varying formats, all as published in printed or pictorial card or paper covers (the 1923 volume is bound in red cloth). Some earlier volumes have staple rust at spine, but very good to fine, overall. A substantive set of one of the mainstays of American numismatic literature. Though it has never had scholarly pretensions, neither has it been primarily a commercial publication. It managed from early on to balance the informative with the commercial to an extent rarely achieved by others. It is an unparalleled, comprehensive chronicle of coin collecting in America, and the modest amounts that sets have brought in recent years truly make it one of the great bargains of American numismatic literature.
American Numismatic Association. THE NUMISMATIST. Fifty-two complete volumes, being those for: 1923, 1932, 1940–1949, 1952–1957, 1960, 1967–1988, 1991–1999 and 2008–2009, as well as nearly complete volumes (lacking one or two issues each) for 1950, 1958, 1961, 1989, 1990, 2000–2002 and 2010. Also present are the Index to Volumes 52–71, the convention proceedings for 1941 and 1942, and the December 1948 and July 1957 Membership Directories & By-Laws. A number of additional issues from incomplete volumes are present. Varying formats, all as published in printed or pictorial card or paper covers (the 1923 volume is bound in red cloth). Some earlier volumes have staple rust at spine, but very good to fine, overall. A substantive set of one of the mainstays of American numismatic literature. Though it has never had scholarly pretensions, neither has it been primarily a commercial publication. It managed from early on to balance the informative with the commercial to an extent rarely achieved by others. It is an unparalleled, comprehensive chronicle of coin collecting in America, and the modest amounts that sets have brought in recent years truly make it one of the great bargains of American numismatic literature.