$125Add to CartHenry Richard Linderman

Money And Legal Tender

In The United States

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 182 Fifth Avenue, 1877. 7.5 inches, duodecimo. Brick red cloth hardcover with gilt title and black ruling to spine. Brown coated endpapers. 173 pp. A cornerstone in the national debate over whether the gold standard or bimetallic silver coinage should govern American monetary policy.

Fair. Covers heavily worn, faded, and soiled with old moisture staining. Dried adhesive residue to rear board. Corners and spine tips rubbed through. Front endpapers damaged with loss of color. Marginal staining to first ten pages including title page. Pages slightly wavy. Previous owner's pencil notations to lower edge of front free endpaper; scattered pencil annotations within text. Binding square and secure.

Written by the co-architect of the Coinage Act of 1873 and Superintendent of the United States Mint.

OCLC 1023103