Any Suggestions On Books To Read About VAM's And Newcomb's?

I know the Newcomb book is pretty good. But it is incomplete as new varieties have surfaced since then.

The Holmes catalogs from Goldberg Auction Galleries are excellent, my favorite auction catalog is still Heritage Auction's Walter J. Husak Large Cent catalog, the photos aren't as good as Goldberg's Holmes Collection, they are bit greenish and dark, but Mark Borckardt has outdone all other catalogs to date with the description and background information, a real tour-de-force. Get the independent Husak catalog, though you can find the lots in the full Feb. 15, 2008 Long Beach catalog from Heritage, the stand alone catalog #460 is what you want. Here is the information on it, though I wouldn't pay the asking price from the Amazon dealers, they are regularly found for around $50-75.00 http://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Auct...p/1599672146 You can also use Heritage auction archives to limit searches for the Husak collection of large cents online.

For books John D. Wright's "The Cent Book" is probably better than any Newcomb book at about $100-125.00, as are the Bill Noyes books if you have deep pockets ($200+).

Meadowview already gave you the link I did on my previous list of VAM books, though hardly complete, it should keep you going for a long while. Thanks Meadowview!

I hear you loud and clear, I'm the same way. But when the book you want is out of print you may have many months of waiting before a chance to buy comes along, The Breen Large Cent book was that way for me, so the digital version was nice to have, plus you can always use it to quickly find items with a search that you can't in a physical book.

Tom Deck has a nice site with most all of Walter's large cents imaged before they were slabbed by PCGS, and permission to post them;

http://www.largecents.net/husak/index.html

Tom's own personal collection is also on his site and a good reference. His collection goes later into the Newcombs, while walter stopped at 1814.

And some people prefer typewriters.

(Not me. I have been using digital word processing since 1983.)

I too want to know more about VAM's so I order this book today: Comprehensive Catalog of Morgan & Peace dollars 4th ED. VanAllen Mallis VAM 1997 on ebay for $23(used).