Mehl, B. Max. LXXXIX. CATALOGUE OF THE MORSE, FAELTON AND TODD COLLECTIONS. A REMARKABLY FINE REPRESENTATION OF THE COINAGE OF THE WORLD, ANCIENT TO MODERN, PRINCIPALLY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. RARITIES OF EVERY SERIES… Fort Worth, June 23, 1936. 8vo, original flexible brown pin-grained full morocco, rounded corners. 113, (3), (12) pages; 2274 lots; halftone portrait of Mehl and three office scenes; coin illustrations; prices realized list bound in. Light rubbing to spine, else fine. The Deluxe Leatherbound Edition. Ex F.C.C. Boyd, with his name in gilt at the base of the front cover and inscribed on the front free flyleaf: "To Fred Boyd — a Real numismatist — but a more genuine fellow and friend. (signed) B. Max Mehl." Very rare. Only the Morse-Faelton-Todd, Dunham and Atwater sales are known in special bindings (excepting Mehl's personal copies of some sales). Only the Dunham sale, however, appears to have been issued in any appreciable quantity. It apparently was part of Mehl's masterful promotional campaign and most of the deluxe Dunhams appear to have been issued, pre-sale, to Mehl's coterie of big spenders. Morse and Atwater appear to have been issued post-sale, and only to those who sufficiently loosened their purse strings at the sale. Judging from the few copies of these deluxe catalogues currently known, Mehl's qualifying standards were high indeed. Why this particular catalogue was issued in deluxe format remains something of an enigma. Though his most important sale in a decade, it pales in significance from a number of earlier sales and from the series of blockbuster Mehl sales to follow. It is bound in the same style as the deluxe Dr. French fixed price catalogue and the leatherbound editions of the Star Rare Coin Encyclopedia found in Mehl's own library. The only other copies of this sale that we recall coming to market are those inscribed to T. James Clarke, C.M. Williams, Russell H. Renz, and Emery May Norweb. Ex F.C.C. Boyd Library; ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 668); ex David Sklow Auction 22, lot 417; ex Cardinal Collection Library.