[78-L] David Stone Martin Books

[James Harrod]

Manek Daver published two books with Graphic-Sha Publishing, Tokyo.   
The first, DAVID STONE MARTIN - JAZZ GRAPHICS, 1991, is (as the title  
suggests) devoted to DSM's graphic work for jazz related subjects.  It  
includes many of his covers for Disc, Asch, and Stinson releases.  In  
the preface it notes that DSM's work for Moses Asch non-jazz music  
releases is not included in this volume.  Many of these non-jazz  
covers for Asch's labels and others such as Caedmon are included in  
the second book, JAZZ ALBUM COVERS - THE RARE AND THE BEAUTIFUL, 1994,  
Tokyo.   Daver was working on a third book at the time of his death.   
The second book covers other designers such as Gil Melle, Pierre  
Merlin, Andy Warhol, etc.  Daver's books have fetched extremely high  
prices on Ebay.

Jim Harrod



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> David Stone Martin was a?noted illustrator and?created covers?for  
> many?jazz LPs in the 50s and 60s, but his work in the 40s (and  
> 30s??)?for 78 rpm album covers seems to be a bit more obscure.?  
> There are literally hundreds of web pages chronicling his work on LP  
> covers, but I haven't been able to find much about his earlier  
> work.? Any ideas where I might find this info?
> ?
> Thanks!? CDB