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The Essex-Champa Sale in White Cowhide

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The Essex-Champa Sale in White Cowhide
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Kolbe, George Frederick. 1981 CONVENTION OF INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATICS. AUCTION SALE NINE. IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC BOOKS, FEATURING THE NUMISMATIC LIBRARY OF THE LATE KENNETH W. LEE, IMPORTANT DUPLICATES FROM THE ARMAND CHAMPA LIBRARY AND THE NOTEWORTHY HOLDINGS OF A PROMINENT HISTORICAL INSTITUTION. Los Angeles, June 12-13, 1981. 4to, original white cowhide, gilt; original card covers bound in. 120, (2) pages; 1025 lots; 8 color and 12 black and white plates; prices realized list bound in. Binding with some marks and rubs, as usual; near fine. The leatherbound edition of Kolbe's 9th sale, in which numismatic literature truly came into its own. Prices surpassed all expectations, demonstrating to all what was possible when one combined outstanding books with a matchless cataloguing effort. The catalogue itself was issued in the format of a large-size Chapman catalogue. One of 40 copies thus bound, Kolbe's first special edition available on a subscription basis (five additional copies were issued in half morocco clamshell boxes for presentation purposes). Ex Raymond Hale library.