Kolbe & Fanning
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First Edition, Second Printing Red Book
Yeoman, R.S. A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS. First (1947) edition, second printing. Racine: Whitman, 1946. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Strong front cover gilt; good spine gilt; rear hinge a little weak; half inch tear to cloth at top rear joint. Very good or better. The second printing of the first edition of the Red Book. Eighteen thousand copies of the first edition were issued, divided equally between the first and second printing. In the first printing, the paragraph near the bottom of page 135 concludes with: "...the scarcity of this date." The second printing as here, concludes with: "...the scarcity of 1903 O." Ex Michael Aron Library.
Estimate: 300 USD
Yeoman, R.S. A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS. First (1947) edition, second printing. Racine: Whitman, 1946. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Strong front cover gilt; good spine gilt; rear hinge a little weak; half inch tear to cloth at top rear joint. Very good or better. The second printing of the first edition of the Red Book. Eighteen thousand copies of the first edition were issued, divided equally between the first and second printing. In the first printing, the paragraph near the bottom of page 135 concludes with: "...the scarcity of this date." The second printing as here, concludes with: "...the scarcity of 1903 O." Ex Michael Aron Library.
Estimate: 300 USD