Media / Coins & Medals from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Sotheby's, 1991. Cloth, [401] pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Sale code: 6147 "TWINS". Auction held June 20, 1991. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners lightly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. 1066 lots. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Sanford J. Durst, 1976. Leatherette, vi, 154 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Bicentennial 1st edition, limited to 10,000 copies. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

Thomas K. Schmieder, 1979. 104 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Phaidon Press, 1952. Cloth, 14 pages, illustrations, 66 portraits; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Price-clipped dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 21, 1987. 299 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Proceedings of the symposium Italian medals, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 29-31 March 1984. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. xii, 131 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "The period from Julius Caesar to Vespasian has been richly documented by the ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, and Velleius. While the historians generally recorded their personal views of the events that unfolded in this period , the highly detailed, profuse Roman coinage of… Read more about this item

London: Century; Random House, 2000. Cloth, 298 pages, illustrations; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. "The author tells the biography of the pound from the Vikings to cyberspace, when - single European currency or not - it may have come to the end of its life, in this permanent record… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 26 cm. First published in the U.K. to accompany the British Museum's HSBC Money Gallery, opened on 30 January 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "A lavishly illustrated introduction to the history… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press; Simon & Schuster, 2004. xvii, 363 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. "It is one of America's treasures -- the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1961. Cloth, 148 pages, illustrations, plates (some colour); 32 cm. Translated from the Italian. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/missing a portion of its back cover along the top edge, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The legend of… Read more about this item

Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1988. Pictorial boards, 182 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Age toning. CONTENTS: Indian Head Quarter Eagles, 1908-1929; Indian Head Half Eagles, 1908-1929; Saint-Gaudens (Indian Head) Eagles, 1907-1933; Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, 1907-1933.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

Boston and New Haven, CT: David R. Godine, Publisher; Yale University Press, 1979. Cloth, xiii, 193 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Wilder Green and Alan Shestack; Acknowledgments; Smitten with… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Cloth, xiv, 432 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated,… Read more about this item