OUT OF PRINT / MINT — SEALED COPY

 

EDISON AMBEROL CYLINDERS
U.S. and Foreign Issues, 1908–1913

By ALLAN SUTTON

 

Mainspring Press (2013)

ISBN 978-0-9852004-4-2

226 pages / 7” x 10” quality softcover

 

Out of print since 2019, this is the only detailed guide to four-minute Edison Amberol “wax” cylinders, taken from first-hand inspection of the original cylinders and the surviving Edison documentation (including the studio cash books, internal company documents, catalogs and supplements, and other primary-source materials). 

Features include:

Details for all U.S. and foreign-catalog releases (except Chinese/Japanese) Listing dates, plus recording dates if verifiable from company documentation Conductors, accompanists, vocal group personnel, and artist pseudonyms Composer and show credits, and medley contents Corresponding Blue Amberol and foreign reissues Illustrated historical introduction Artist and title indexes

ALLAN SUTTON is the author of numerous books on vintage records and the early American recording industry, including American Record Companies and Producers, 1888–1940; Race Records and the American Recording Industry, 1919–1945; A Phonograph in Every Home; Recording the 'Twenties; and Recording the 'Thirties. He is the recipient of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

 Condition: NEW — In original shrink-wrap

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