Kolbe & Fanning
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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, later red cloth, gilt; original gilt-printed red cloth trimmed and mounted to front cover. 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Very good. A rebound copy of the first printing of the first edition. 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." A good copy for reference.
(Estimate: $200)
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, later red cloth, gilt; original gilt-printed red cloth trimmed and mounted to front cover. 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Very good. A rebound copy of the first printing of the first edition. 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." A good copy for reference.
(Estimate: $200)