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Adams Volume I, with Presentation Inscription

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Adams Volume I, with Presentation Inscription
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Adams, John W. UNITED STATES NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. VOLUME I: NINETEENTH CENTURY AUCTION CATALOGS. Mission Viejo, California: George F. Kolbe, 1982. 4to, original orange-red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges speckled; printed throughout in red and black. Frontispiece; 270, (2) pages; 22 additional plates; pictorial endpapers. Inscribed by the author to Margo Russell on the colophon. Fine. Copy No. 25, "Presented to Margo Russell." The standard work on the early numismatic auction catalogues issued by the major American firms. One of 500 copies printed, bound by hand and printed on acid free paper. Essential. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature."