American Record Companies and Producers, 1888 - 1950. An Encyclopedic History

Denver: Mainspring Press. 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy, as new and still shrink-wrapped, issued without dust jacket. A mammoth expansion of American Record Labels and Companies, this new volume contains almost twice the information of the latter, published 18 years ago. It covers cylinders and disks, with a range of years expanded forward and backwards, with much more information on many more companies.Contains a Selected Reference list for most labels, covering 91pp., flow charts showing genealogy of the companies, Glossary, Label Index and Subject Index. Relatively unheralded, the printing was limited to 300 copies at a time the author/publisher was losing interest in print as a medium, concentrating his current and future research on digital media.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 730 pp . (Inventory #: 29143)