Recording the Blues by Dixon, Robert M. W. & John Godrich - 1970

New York: Stein & Day, 1970. First American edition. 8vo, 109 pp. + index. Bound in olive green boards titled in silver. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with b/w photographs and reproductions of records and ephemera. An essential text, published in the equally essential Blues Series for Studio Vista, which was edited by Paul Oliver for David Herbert and Timothy Beaumont's eclectic but always impeccable Studio Vista imprint, and here published in the US by Stein and Day. Somewhat uncommon in the hardcover edition. Previous owner's signature to first blank, and some tape ghosts to panels, else very good in a very good jacket rubbed at extremities, with some old tape remnants to flaps.