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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 968, member: 57463"]Sellers of numismatic books advertise in numismatic periodicals.  I got my Breen Encyclopedia from Brooklyn Galleries, a Coin World advertiser. George Frederick Kolbe and Remy Bourne are two auction dealers you need to know.  Basically, they have the rare and common books.  You pay for them, of course.  I always scour the old, used bookstores.  In Columbus, Ohio, it was pretty bad, but here in Albuquerque it is even worse.  Detroit was the best.  But, if you seek, you will find.  I just found Breens "Proof Encyclopedia" for more than I would have liked to pay for it ($25) but I have had used bookstore owners tell me that they never buy "coin books" because "no one wants the red ones when they get old."  From there, the discussion requires tact and fortitude.  At the CSNS in Columbus, I shelled out something like $65 for Taxay's US Mint and Coinage, a book that I know I could have found in Detroit for half that -- but I was not in Detroit and not likely to be... I am 2000 miles from there, now.  So, you bite the bullet and ignore the pain because it is not the "book" you are buying but the KNOWLEDGE inside -- and that is priceless.[/QUOTE]