Breen’s Heavily Annotated Bolender

Bolender, M.H. THE UNITED STATES EARLY SILVER DOLLARS FROM 1794 TO 1803. First edition. Freeport, 1950. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; rebacked and expanded to accommodate accompanying material. 75, (1) pages; 9 fine plates. Inscribed by the author to Walter Breen, dated July 28, 1950. Very heavily annotated throughout in several inks and pencil (see comments); four pieces of notepaper laid in with various annotations and commentary. Folder affixed to rear pastedown containing the following: original typewritten pages by Breen, being a draft for an original work on the early dollars, comprising 8 pages of typewritten text covering the varieties of 1794–1798, annotated in pencil and in multiple inks, plus 6 pages of carbon copy typescript of the same material for 1795–1798 with a few additional annotations; a typewritten sheet by Breen, annotated, recording the provenances of forty-one 1794 dollars; six legal pad sheets with Breen’s original handwritten appraisal of the extensive Ostheimer collection of early dollars, plus a three-page typewritten summary of the appraisal further annotated by Breen; ten original black and white photographs of early dollars, some with printed variety attributions; three sheets with various handwritten notes by Breen on early dollars, accompanied by rubbings; three original 1953–1954 letters to Breen from Frank M. Stirling (each two pages, typewritten, signed in ink), each of them providing considerable provenance and other information on early dollars, clearly intended for a book Breen was said to have been working on at the time; a letter from Mulford B. Simons, Jr. regarding a newly discovered 1798 reverse die; an annotated typewritten listing of “Info from K.P. Austin’s files about dollars bought from him in 1960”; a copy of the important but little-known 1959 Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. fixed price catalogue of the Emanuel Taylor collection (“America’s Outstanding Collection of Silver Dollars”); the original valuation list printed to accompany the Bolender book (heavily annotated) as well as the revised 1956 price list (clean); and a printed errata sheet for the book. Condition of added materials varies, but is generally very good to fine. [online description truncated: see PDF or printed catalogue for full description]