Watch List notes:

Stack's. THE MAGNIFICENT HERMAN HALPERN COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES LARGE CENTS. New York, March 16–17, 1988. 4to, original white cloth, as issued with the original printed card cover and vertical title mounted on the front cover and spine. 244 pages; 774 lots; numerous monochrome text illustrations, many enlarged; 8 pages of full-color illustrations of large cents in the text. Prices realized list in pocket on rear pastedown. Set of eight Stack's Special Color Illustrations of the Herman Halpern Collection, printed on thick stock, in the original printed envelope. Fine. Special Hardbound Edition. Reportedly, only twenty-five copies were specially bound by Stack's. The catalogue won the 1988 Numismatic Literary Guild award for the best auction catalogue of that year. The collection itself ranks among the finest ever formed, and is especially notable in terms of condition and pedigree. Ex Kolbe Sale 101, lot 871; ex Cardinal Collection Library.