Lane, Harrow, UK, 1963, Correct First Edition, First Printing in hardcover, no dust jacket as issued; precedes the revised second edition published by Storyville Publications, London, in 1969; a monumental discographical study of blues and gospels recordings, issued between 1902 and 1942. Very good in blue cloth, spine titles are bright, light spotting to boards, endpapers and top edge, several pages mildly crimped at the fore edge, discreet scattered pencil annotations, short closed tear to rear cover at hinge, not affecting the binding; cloth is lightly creased on rear cover, presumably in production. Very scarce in the first edition. J2154
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