“the ‘Edgar Adams’ of our time”

Bowers, Q. David. COINS AND COLLECTORS. Johnson City: Windsor Research Publications, 1964 [second printing, February 1965]. 8vo, original mustard cloth lettered in black; jacket. 214, (2) pages; illustrated. Inscribed and signed by Bowers on the front flyleaf. Jacket a bit worn; near fine. Walter Breen’s copy of Bowers’s first book, with a lengthy inscription from the author: “To Walter Breen, whose research and published findings have played a most important part in the field of numismatics in recent years... the ‘Edgar Adams’ of our time, but with greater expertise and variety of interests. With best personal regards of the author. (signed) Q. David Bowers, Mar. 12, 1965.”