The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 25, June 19, 2005, Article 21

SELLING KELLEY REPRINTS

Regarding Dave Ginsberg:'s question about Kelley reprints,
Henry Bergos writes: "I was the distributor in the Numismatic
community for Kelley in the mid-1980s. Fred Cheeseman
was the office manager in New York City (Broadway and 25th
street), for the NJ company. They were already in bad shape
and had warehouses FULL of unsellable scholarly books. Most
were printed in the mid-1960s. The idea was to sell to libraries
and school libraries. I was not allowed to sell to them. I was
being charged 10 or 15% of list price and I sold them at 35-60%.
Sales were very poor. I sold between 1987 and 1990. Any
one who wants a copy of my old list can have one - please
send a 5 1/2x8" stamped envelope and I'll make a copy for
you. The ANS of course, has one. I think there were 53 titles
in all. If I can help with any thing else just write."

[Henry forgot to include his mailing address, but I will
forward emails to him.

Two Kelley reprints on my shelves are: Andrew McFarland Davis'
"Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay,"
2 volumes, 1901, reprinted in 1970 from a copy in the New York
Public Library, and Henry Phillips' "Historical Sketches of the
Paper Currency of the American Colonies, 1865, two volumes
printed in one, reprinted in 1972 from a copy owned by the
College of William and Mary. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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