"As a coin collector, it's possible you've been called a "maniac." Only one numismatic organization is proud to consist entirely of maniacs - the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.

"How maniacal are NBS members about collecting numismatic books, catalogs, magazines and price lists? Its official journal is The Asylum, and its e-newsletter is The E-Sylum. The joke goes that you don't so much join the NBS as get committed to it."

At the beginning of this issue, I mentioned that the first regional convention of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society was conducted in Long Beach, California on Feb. 19. The meeting was attended by nearly thirty members, and it was the consensus that it was indeed the finest and most interesting "get together" that our young organization has held to date.

George Kolbe moderated a most informative discussion of book binding and preservation; and he, Alan Meghrig and Armand Champa exhibited a number of beautiful pieces. The normally "reserved" Walter Breen was figuratively drooling all over Armand's prize, William Hartman Woodin's personal deluxe interleaved copy of Adams and Woodin's United States Pattern, Trial and Experimental Pieces. Annotated throughout the work were Woodin's notes containing information still not even included in Judd! Five'll get you ten that the eighth edition of Judd will have some new tidbits.

Oh! Incidentally, I was elected President of the N.B.S. for a two-year term. The other officers installed were Armand Champa, Vice President; Alan Meghrig, Treasurer; Linda Kolbe, Secretary; and Q. David Bowers, Remy Bourne, Carling Gresham, Don Pfau and Dick Punchard, members of the executive board.