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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 722904, member: 66&quot;]Never criticize the dealer selling coin books he&#039;s bought when he he buys out a collection.&nbsp; I lucked out at the Kentucky State show this past weekend.&nbsp; This dealer sells a lot of used supplies and some books.&nbsp; He had five boxes of books from three collections he had purchased. (This was just half of them.)&nbsp; There was some great stuff in those boxes!&nbsp; Picked up a copy of Fractional Currency by Carothers (reprint but I couldn&#039;t get lucky enough to have gotten an original.), ANS Coinage of the America&#039;s conference 1986 Americas Silver coinage and 1989 Americas Gold Coinage&nbsp; Excellent books and once again duplicates for me but these books were originally $25 and lately have been pushing $50 each, I got them for $12 each.&nbsp; A Wayte Raymand booklet &quot;The secret history of the Gobrecht coinages 1836 - 1840 by Breen (Original).&nbsp; An original copy of &quot;Notes on eighteenth century tokens&quot; by Arthur Waters published by Seaby in 1954.&nbsp; The last original copy I saw went for $75, I paid $50 for my first copy, this one cost me $7.&nbsp; He had three copies of Early Coins of America by Sylvester Crosby, two more recent copies at around $30 each (current price for these is about $45) and I bought the 1945 printing for $15.&nbsp; I got the latest edition of the Civil War Patriotic tokens book for $19 (a $50 book)&nbsp; All of these books look like they have never been opened.&nbsp; There was also an 1885 copy of Evan book on the early mint, an 1889 copy of the US annual mint report, a 1902 copy of the mint report.&nbsp; Thee were in rough conditon, and believe it or not a copy of the Early Dimes book!&nbsp; Brand new with dust jacket!&nbsp; I have a copy already, burned and water damaged and I&#039;ve wanted a replacement, but the book is long out of print and copies lately have been going for $250.&nbsp; I was tickled to get this one for $30.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there was a lot of good stuff that I didn&#039;t buy.&nbsp; First edition of Sheldon&#039;s Early American Cents, and one I probably should have bought an original 1920 printing of Miller&#039;s book on Connecticut cents, Ryder on Vermonts, and one on Massachusetts coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t help but wonder what was in the other half that he didn&#039;t bring![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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