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Newcomb, Howard R. THE UNITED STATES CENTS OF THE YEARS 1801-1802-1803. Detroit: Liberty Printing Co., 1925. 4to [31 by 24.5 cm], original black full morocco, bordered on both sides with double gilt fillets; gilt inner dentelles; title in gilt on the upper cover; spine with four raised bands with double gilt rules on either side; original green silk marker with the cardboard cent gauge attached. 85, (1) pages; 5 fine photographic plates with tissue guards [plates included in pagination]; erratum slip tipped in on page 73. Loosely laid in are two examples of the July 1931 photographic supplemental plate describing and depicting new 1801 varieties and three examples of the January 1928 photographic supplemental plate describing and depicting a new 1803 variety. Correspondence and other materials by Henry Hines and the author laid in [see comments]. Extremities slightly worn. Fine. The Deluxe Leatherbound Edition, one of only ten copies issued. This special edition was little known until the appearance of the striking full-color illustration on the cover of the 1986 Robinson Brown, Jr. sale catalogue, reportedly depicting the R.E. Naftzger copy. Until the appearance of an inscribed copy, the exact number of deluxe copies made appears to have been unknown and, of the ten copies issued, about half are currently known to have survived. Concerning Newcomb and this work, Dr. Sheldon wrote: "during the first quarter of the twentieth century and until his death in 1945, Howard R. Newcomb was so closely identified with the big cents that to mention cents was to mention Newcomb... The United States Cents of the Years 1801-1802-1803 ... marks a milestone in the cent literature. Approaching a field which had been left almost in chaos by the Doughty book, Newcomb assembled a vast quantity of numismatic material, ordered and reordered it, finally set up a new classificational system and a list which seemed adequate; and after testing the new list for upwards of a decade, published. The verdict of time on this work has been favorable." Henry Hines appears first in the roster of those acknowledged by Newcomb in the preface, as follows: "This publication has been made possible only by the hearty cooperation and help by the loan of their collections of the following gentlemen..." The special edition at hand is accompanied by correspondence and other materials that amply confirm Hines's wide-ranging cooperation with Newcomb. Included are: five pages of descriptions written in pencil by Hines, describing in great detail twenty-six of his 1802 cents, apparently returned to him with Newcomb's notes on condition, variety, etc.; seven pages of descriptions written in pencil by Hines, describing in great detail thirty-eight of his 1803 cents, also apparently returned to him with Newcomb's notes on condition, variety, etc.; seven sheets of handwritten and typewritten compilations/descriptions of 1801, 1802, & 1803 cents in the Hines collection; Hines's carbon copy of an October 2, 1924 letter to Howard Newcomb reading in part: "I am sending you today by American Railway Express sixty pieces of 1801's and 1802's... I will get my 1803's together within the next day or so and ship them... While we are engaged in it, let us make it [your work] the best exposition on these several series extant... and it will be a splendid aid and stimulation not only to the present collectors but to those who follow in the study of United States cents"; a typewritten June 8, 1925 letter from Howard Newcomb to Hines informing him of the return of his 1801 cents, noting that "I appreciate very much your letting me have these pieces again," apparently to aid a last-minute rearrangement; a handwritten May 25, 1925 letter from Newcomb to Hines, accompanied by a photograph of the obverse on "the 'new' 1802 Cent," describing the "considerable trouble" Newcomb was experiencing in adequately photographing it; a handwritten June 22, 1925 letter from Newcomb to Hines concerning an 1803 cent; a handwritten February 20, 1928 letter from Walter W. Garrabrant to "Dear Friend Harry," reading in part: "Just a line to tell you I have among my duplicates of 1803 the variety Newcomb calls unique, of which he recently sent me a description of same. The reverse is entirely different from any other 1803. Look among your duplicates and see if you can find it"; a typewritten February 2, 1931 letter on attractive stationery, signed in ink, from B. Max Mehl to Hines, offering "the 1803 Cent, the newly discovered variety, N 24/5=S with perfect reverse die"; and a handwritten August 7, 1931 to Hines from James G. Macallister about various early cents, reading in part: "The 1803 N. #24 belongs to Clapp. He paid $180 for it from Sears. It is about Unc. Newcomb had first chance to buy it and turned it down." It would certainly seem obvious that this copy of the deluxe edition belonged to Hines, but for the fact that another copy of the deluxe edition, with Hines's name impressed in gilt on the front cover, was part of the John J. Ford, Jr. library sold in 2004 (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 693). If any man were going to be presented with two copies of the deluxe edition, however, that man was Hines, and there is no reason to think that this copy, married as it is with correspondence to and from Hines, did not belong to him. A wonderful association copy of the special edition of this landmark work, accompanied by interesting large cent correspondence and unique manuscript materials. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature." Ex Kolbe Sale 111 (Stack's library), lot 115. Ex Dave Steine library.
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