Good Next Book....?

Just for reading pleasure I'd go with Adventures with Rare Coins first, then follow it up with The history of US coinage as illustrated by the Garrett collection. IMO 2 of the best books on US coin collecting ever written.

I agree on the EAC grading guide book, very well written, lots of information on grading standards and practices of the EAC. If you like EAC stuff see my reviews in this forum (use search by poster) on the Sheldon 15 "The Aristocrat" book and Al Boka's 1794 book, both excellent reads though a bit esoteric.

I'd get the Deluxe RedBook if you don't have a good general reference to US coins already, but reading, a RedBook can be dry and tedious, you can't beat the information contained within however, and one needs to be on every collector's bookshelf. The Gifford book on 3 cent nickels is very expensive and not that great IMO. Get Kevin Flynn's books instead. Kyle Vick is the publisher and usually has them for sale on ebay at good pricing, (Kyle has pretty much taken over JT Stanton's book business now, JT co-wrote the Cherrypicker's Guide to die varieties, and published and/or printed many coin books during the 1980's and 90's, through his company Stanton Printing).

Join the ANA and take advantage of the free library lending, you pay only for postage and insurance, to have at hand, a HUGE amount of (sometimes expensive and out of print) books available to lend via the mail, I use it almost every month and have for decades now. In fact tomorrow I'm returning a copy of Newman's Fugio cent book I've had for the past month or so along with a rare book on 1794 large cents and several DVDs, I will then place another lending order in a week or so. Cost should be around $6-10 for postage and insurance for two books I can't buy for under $250.00 anywhere, I extended the checkout time to 2 months for free on them. ANA is a great deal if only for access to their library!

OK, first two books on their way, turns out Amazon can be much cheaper than ebay.

Adventures was about $10 with shipping
History of Coinage was $33 with shipping

Breen's was about $75, so I will watch that for a while/

Reading is free (well besides the postage) if you take my advice and join the ANA, collecting them on the other hand...

My interest in EAC coins came at a poor time, now what I like (1794 Large Cents) aren't really very affordable any more. So I collect books on them, and other early coins (mostly copper). I've spent way more on books the past year than on coins, and my collection is over 1000 editions now, 2000-3000 if you count auction catalogs. I find that many rare early books are a lot tougher to find than the coins of the same era, not so many people thought to save catalogs, pamphlets, and books on coins like the coins themselves were saved. The prices however are still fairly reasonable on even the rare stuff. Yes some books are in the thousands of dollars, but try to find a few nice 1794 Large Cents in EF/AU and see how much they will set you back. Another plus is security, most books are over looked in a burglary (too heavy, and too hard to sell). Just keep them out of light, dry and safe.

Meadowview and I have worked up a listing of books on US Numismatics, contact him for a current list if you want. I haven't counted but I'm pretty sure the listing is well over 1000 books now.

Glad you went with the two Bowers books, out of all my books I still think "Adventures with Rare Coins" is my very favorite coin book, I've read it many times over.

Also here is a cool list of US Numismatic books - The Top 100 according to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society:

http://wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php...c_Literature

Don't forget to dig through the older posts in this forum, there are a lot of good picks and tips on free books available online, reviews (I've written a few) and more.

One last one one you'll like; is Walter Breen's Large Cent encyclopedia is free at PCGS along with a bunch of other books to read online.
http://www.pcgs.com/books/

Just back from the weekend. I did go ahead and decide to get this from Amazon, shipped about $76.

Doing some bottom feeding (books for a penny, just pay shipping) on Ebay/Amazon:

Picked these up recently

Profitable Coin Collecting, Ganz, 2008
US coins Closeup, Van Ryzin,2012
2011 US Coin Digest, Harper, 2010

Working my way up to books with more substance.

Just picked up: United States Copper Cents- Howard Newcomb 1816-1957 Durst 1986 ed. for $9.99 plus $4.22 shipping. The only other book I have on Large cent is: United States Large Cents 1793-1857 by-Warren A. Lapp and Herbert A. Silberman. It also covers Half Cents.
On PCGS Collector forum: Early United States Dimes 1796-1837 By Davis, Logan, Lovejoy, McCloskey and Subjack Selling for $140. I paid $240 for mine.

Thanks Westcoin, this will save me time and money when looking for books on large copper.