A Guide Book of United States Coins 1947: Catalog and price list-1616 to date by R. S. Yeoman. Whitman Publishing Company. 1946. 5"x8" 256 pages Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on the front cover and spine are slightly faded, but still bright and legible. Light cover edge wear with a little heavy wear on the bottom corners of the spine with some bumping there. Previous owner name and address in ink on the front endpaper. Erasure marks there, too. No other previous owner markings.  No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sF01a

"The 1947 first edition of R. S. Yeoman's Guide Book of United States Coins when first issued totaled 18,000 copies - a small quantity by today's standards. The "Red Book" quickly grew into the world's most popular numismatic reference, and one of the best-selling nonfiction books of all time." - From an Amazon review of the Commemorative Reissue of this first edition.