Search Results: Titles starting with W from Kolbe & Fanning

New York: FCI/Doubleday, 1988. 4to, original black cloth; jacket. xiv, 754 pages. Well-illustrated throughout. Near fine. Probably the greatest single attempt to discuss all U.S. coinage, including colonial and private coinages, in a single volume. While some have focused on the text's occasional errors and the volume's production problems, it would be tough to name another reference work that includes so much solid information.

Boston: Boston Public Library, 1976. 8vo, card covers. (2), 35, (3) pages. Fine. An unusual production, with the introduction noting that Arnold's "essay is crotchety, at best, to the point of perverseness, and one might well question the wisdom of giving it wider currency by here reprinting it." The essay was originally published in 1901 and is mainly notable for being about the only published opinion of someone who doesn't think much of the gold "Washington before Boston" Comitia Americana medal in the holdings of the Boston Public Library.

Wolfeboro, 1992. 4to, original dark blue leatherette, gilt. 221, (1) pages; illustrated. Inscribed by the author. Fine. An intriguing, if very specialized, work on the countermarked coins promoting Dr. Shattuckís Water Cure of Waterford, Maine.

London: Cape Horn Trading, 1979. Small square 4to, original green cloth, gilt; silk marker. 206 pages; text illustrations. Fine. Perhaps the most detailed and focused study of a particular type of coin scale. Scarce.

New York: ANS, 2020. 4to, original black boards, gilt; jacket. (10), 707, (3) pages; 3 folding tables; illustrated in color. New. A landmark publication on the topic of the earliest coinage, bringing together current scholarship from more than two dozen researchers and covering every aspect of these pieces. Includes a die study by Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert. Published in cooperation with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Atlanta: Whitman, 2014. 8vo, original pictorial boards. vi, 490 pages; illustrated in color. New. Foreword by Dr. Manuel Galán Medina.

Atlanta: Whitman, 2016. 4to, original pictorial boards. xvi, 480 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Volume 6 is the first of three volumes on the South Atlantic states. This book weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra shipping charges.

Atlanta: Whitman, 2020. 2nd edition. 4to, original pictorial boards. x, 340 pages; illustrated in color. New. A highly important work, providing a single-volume examination of these complex coins.

Atlanta: Whitman, 2015. 4to, original pictorial boards. xvi, 448 pages; profusely illustrated in color. New. Foreword by Anne E. Bentley. The Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money is a multiple-volume study of currency issued by American banks from 1782 to 1866, before the modern era of National Banks and the Federal Reserve. Volume 3 is a guide to Massachusetts, specifically the towns of Abington to Greenfield. Itís a companion to volume 4, and together the two volumes cover the entire Bay State. It contains the history of every Massachusetts town and city from Abington to Greenfield, as well as of every bank in those towns that issued this uniquely American currency. Each note is studied, and hundreds are pictured in full color, with information on grading, rarity, values, significant auction results, advice for collectors, and more. This book weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra shipping charges.

New York, 1946. 8vo, original blue quarter baby calf lettered in gold. 145, (1) pages; 1046 lots; illustrated; price realized printed by each lot. RALPH RITZMAN impressed in gilt on front cover. Very good. The Special Hardbound Edition of the F.C.C. Boyd U.S. gold collection, billed on the second title page as "the most complete listing of U.S. gold ever sold at any auction.