first edition Hardcover
1970 · New York
by Oliver, Paul
New York: Oak Publications, 1970. Hardcover. viii, 294p., first US edition. No dj. Oliver's wide-ranging survey of the blues tradition includes discussions of the problems involved in classification and collection, as well as censorship, the Dirty Dozens, and much more. Originally issued in Great Britain as "Screening the Blues (Inventory #: 28938)