US Large Cent Coin Books - Advice Needed

There's always the 6-volume set by William C. Noyes: "United States Large Cents". This appears to be from 2006, and I don't know how available is is anymore.

edit: it is still available, but pricey:

https://www.abebooks.com/book-searc...yes-william/

Early dates either Penny Whimsy or Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents 1793 - 1814. Penny Whimsy will be easier to find, but I would say to avoid the 1990 edition, especially the first printing. Breen has better pictures but four of the varieties are not pictured, they repeated the image of another variety in error.

Middle dates either John Wright's The Cent Book, or Bill Noyes United States Large Cents 1816 - 1839 The Cent Book will be much easier to acquire as it is still available from the author. The Noyes book is out of print and difficult to find. If it is available, the distributor is Charlie Davis.

Late Dates the book you want is U. S. Cents 1840 - 1857 by Robert Grellman. The third edition is out of print and no longer available from the author. The fourth edition is available in the EACS website in the members section as a digital edition. Bob does say in the latest issue of Penny Wise that the printed version should be ready by the end of the year, bu tno price has been established yet. When it is available it can be ordered from the author.

As Whatdowehavehere said the Dan Holmes collection listing that he posted are also very useful in connection with the books. Dan's early and middle date collections show EVERY variety with the exception of 1825 N-5, and N-5 is the obv of N-4 paired with the rev of N-10 so both dies ARE pictured in the collection, just not together. If the diagnostics of each variety had been listed in the catalogs they would have been the ultimate books on the large cents.