Complete Set of Empire Topics & Review

[Bowers, Q. David, et al.]. Empire Coin Company. EMPIRE TOPICS. Nos. 1–11. Johnson City, 1958–1960. [with] THE BOWERS REVIEW. Nos. 1–2 [12–13]. Binghamton, 1960–1961. [with] THE EMPIRE REVIEW. Nos. 14–19. Binghamton & Johnson City, 1961–1964. Nineteen issues, complete. 8vo, self-covered, as published. Issues range in condition from very good or so to fine. Accompanied by a printout of David Fanning and Q. David Bowers’s article on the series from the January–March 2015 issue of The Asylum. Housed in an attractive clamshell box (Tall 8vo, green half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. A complete set of the forerunner of the Rare Coin Review. The “Empire” series ceased publication shortly before Bowers and Ruddy joined forces with other coin dealerships and individuals in 1965 to form Paramount International Coin Corporation, the first publicly owned American coin firm. Ex Kolbe Sale 110, lot 333 (box made subsequently).