[78-L] Early discography (was: Larry Adler rarity?)

[David Lennick]

It's an original..the owner died in 1967.

dl
 
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:57:12 -0700
> Subject: [78-L] Early discography (was: Larry Adler rarity?)
> 
> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> >> Don’t know about the Larry Adler recording but you are quite lucky to 
> >> have a copy of Schleman’s 1936 “Rhythm on Record,” especially if it is 
> >> an intact, clean copy! This is the daddy of discographies.
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > It's a beautiful copy, and don't mention the asking price on this list..
> > I don't want to give these people any ideas, not that I'm trying to
> > diddle them (moi?). dl
> 
> 
> Is this copy the original or is it the Greenwood Press reprint? They
> did a wonderful set of historic discography reprints in 1978 that I
> reviewed in ARSC Journal Vol. 13 No. 3 that is on-line at 
> http://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v13/v13n3p145-169.pdf
> I called the Schleman reprint of "Rhythm on Record" the hit of the
> series" on page 158. I'm glad you reminded me of it because I need to
> refer to it for my presentation along with Blackstone "Index To Jazz"
> which was also in the reprint series. ( 
> 
> Looking at my review of the reprint series now seems so funny about how
> I talked and complained about the prices. But so many of the books in
> the series were so easily found in used book stores then at very low
> prices, and some of those were the highest priced reprints. But the
> Schleman and Blackstone reprints at $19.75 each seems cheap NOW knowing
> the prices that discographies NOW are published at. These two were hard
> to find even then. I don't think I've seen an original Schleman. 
> (There are at least three more copies of the reprint on the web right
> now although I just ordered the least expensive copy. There was an
> original set of Blackstone for sale at Jazz Record Center when I was
> last there in Jan. You can also put together a set of Blackstone
> originals on the web, but there is a reasonable priced reprint also
> available. I just ordered another of the reprint. Cost is more
> important to me than having an original of things like this.)
> 
> But my complaints about bibliographic data of these reprints still
> stand. A 1978 reprint of a 1936 book MUST be considered a 1936 book
> because a facsimile reprint is not an update. The reprint info must be
> secondary in listing the book. That being said, if you are interested
> in these books for their info and the historic value of seeing how
> discography began before Rust, these Greenwood reprints will serve the
> purpose, were very well done, and are MUCH sturdier than the originals.
> I have originals of the American printings of Delaunay Hot and New Hot
> Discograpy and don't seem to have had modern facsimile reprints.
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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