The Gene Reale Copper Collection: A Collection of Half Cents and Large Cents in Superb Uncirculated Condition (David Redden's Copy)

Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press (Printing and Binding), 1995. 1/4 leather. Near Fine. A significant Association copy: INSCRIBED BY GENE REALE TO DAVID REDDEN, THE FORMIDABLE SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER WHO WOULD PRESIDE OVER THE FAMOUS JANUARY 19TH, 1998 AUCTION. THIS WAS NOT ONLY DAVID REDDEN'S COPY OF THIS LAVISH 1995 CATALOGUE (with his bookplate affixed to the clamshell box's front pastedown) BUT ALSO IS #32 OF ONLY 100 COPIES ISSUED. A crisp, very bright copy to boot. Clean and Fine in its 1/4 black morocco over red silk boards. Immaculate gilt-titling and mounted design at the front panel and spine. Quarto, beautifully photographed by Marilyn Lehrfeld and printed by the Stinehour Press of Lunenberg, VT. Housed in a full, dark-leather clamshell box, with mounted titling at the front panel and rubbed gilt-titling along the spine. Both the "book and cover design" by the highly-regarded book designer Jerry Kelly.