Sold Date: February 19, 2016
Start Date: February 12, 2016
Final Price: $41.50 (USD)
Bid Count: 12
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Folkways FP-58, “New York 19” from 1954, “conceived, recorded, edited, and narrated by Tony Schwartz”. This may be the most well-known of Tony Schwartz’s street-culture recordings. This is a first pressing with the dinner-plate-weight vinyl and a heavy jacket with only a front cover pasteover. The vinyl plays at VG+ on the outer tracks with light static, better on the inner tracks with minimal static. The jacket has medium wear on the bottom seam, and light wear on the other seams – mostly color loss. There are no splits. The booklet of descriptive notes is included and in excellent shape. The idea was to record the sounds of Manhattan just below Central Park on the West Side, which takes in Times Square, the theater district, and Hell’s Kitchen. Tracks include impromptu singing by street musicians including Moondog, theater barkers, street vendors, an auctioneer, children’s play songs and rhythms, and the non-human sounds of city life. Nothing quite matches the range of Tony Schwartz’s quirky sound collections. Shipping is $4.00 media mail, $8.00 priority mail within the continental U.S.; $20.00 regular airmail to the U.K., Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Regrets for the higher overseas shipping, but Folkways records can be very heavy. Additional LPs in a single package are $1.00 additional within U.S. and Canada, $2.00 elsewhere. For overseas shipments, registered mail is strongly recommended at $11.75 extra. Many old records are practically antiques and should be treated that way. This LP will be packaged with the record inside an inner sleeve but outside the jacket; both are placed inside a sealed outer sleeve and shipped inside a special oversized handcrafted mailer with padding on all sides. It is designed thick enough not to be bent in transit and strong enough to withstand a drop from a second-story window. More than two LPs together may be mailed inside a heavy Bags Unlimited pizza-style box. Your LP should arrive in the same condition as on the day it was shipped. All used LPs are play-graded on a VPI turntable with Audioquest tonearm and Grado cartridge.