Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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Well-Preserved 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. Strong gilt to both spine and front cover; hinge becoming weak before title page; ink stamp at title page, but no other markings. Near fine. A remarkably nice 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." Ex Michael Aron Library.
Estimate: 600 USD
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. Strong gilt to both spine and front cover; hinge becoming weak before title page; ink stamp at title page, but no other markings. Near fine. A remarkably nice 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." Ex Michael Aron Library.
Estimate: 600 USD