The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 18, May 6, 2007, Article 16

HOWARD GIBBS' COPY OF WORTERBUCH DER MUNZKUNDE: WHERE IS IT NOW?

Dick Johnson writes: "There is a bibliophile's footnote to that
Bashlow item above. On my visit to Bob Bashlow's appartment I
gravitated to his bookcase (as I often do when visiting numismatists
- invite me to your home and point me to your numismatic books)!

"I found a book that I once owned! It was from the library of Howard
. Gibbs and quite distinctive. It was bound in red cloth. Gibbs had
rebound ALL the books in his library in red cloth. I have written of
this before in E-Sylum (vol 5, no 7, article 6). Imagine a wall of
numismatic books of different sizes but all of the same color!

"The book was a 1930 numismatic dictionary in German, "Worterbuch
der Munzkunde" by Friedrich von Schrotter. I had purchased this in
a Hans M.F. Schulman auction. Once when Walter Breen visited me he
saw it and said he could translate German. I said, "Here, translate
this book," and I gave him the red-bound book. (I had another copy,
unbound; I still have it and it is still unbound. I just picked it
up and the front cover fell off.) Breen must have given that copy
to Bashlow.

"If the present owner of this book would like a provenance it would
be Howard D. Gibbs, to Schulman auction, to Dick Johnson, to Walter
Breen, to Robert Bashlow, to?. Does it still have the red binding
and perhaps the Howard D. Gibbs bookplate?"

 HOWARD D. GIBBS LIBRARY
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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