拍品描述： Beistle, M.L. A Register Of Half Dollar Die Varieties and Sub-Varieties. Being a Description of Each Die Variety Used in the Coinage of United States Half Dollars as Far as the Issues are Known, Covering the United States Mint at Philadelphia, and Branches at New Orleans, San Francisco, Carson City and Denver. Shippensburg, 1929.8vo, original full brown flexible morocco leather, gilt; all page edges gilt. xxxiii, (1), 261, (1) pages, interleaved; frontispiece portrait of the author, autographed in ink; portrait plate of David Proskey; primer chart; 7 fine photographic plates. Minor damage to front pastedown. Near fine.No. 1 of only 135 deluxe interleaved copies issued with photographic plates. Inscribed in black ink on the front flyleaf: "To Col. E.H.R. Green, In appreciation of your encouragement which has helped the author make this book more complete and accurate, Sincerely, (signed) M.L. Beistle, Shippensburg, Pa., Sept 20th 1929." Only the deluxe edition featured actual photographic plates, the regular copies including less expensive halftones. Prior to the 1967 publication of the Overton work on early half dollars, Martin Luther Beistles volume was the primary reference on the subject. Bill Bugert published an article in the January-March 2008 issue of the Numismatic Bibliomania Societys journal, <em>The Asylum</em>, on the publication process of Beistles work, which was partially underwritten by Col. Green and for which F.C.C. Boyd provided advice on promotion and printing. This is arguably the single most desirable copy of this reference. In its first public offering we are aware of, it sold for $7,475 in the June 2004 sale of the Ford Library, nearly ten times its presale estimate. Clain-Stefanelli 12243. Davis 78. Sigler 199. From Colonel E.H.R. Green; unknown intermediaries; John J. Ford, Jr.; our sale, in association with George Frederick Kolbe Fine Numismatic Books, of the John J. Ford, Jr. Reference Library, Part I, June 2004, lot 172.