A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments: Volume I and Volume II, by Bowers, Q. David

A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments: Volume I and Volume II, Bowers, Q. David. Published by Vestal Press, New York, 1967/8. Two volumes bound as one. Red cloth boards with gilt spine titles. 4to up to 12" tall. Volume 1 pages 1-349: Player Pianos, Coin Pianos, Orchestrions, Reproducing Pianos, etc. Volume 2 pages 401-697: Cylinder and Disc Music Boxes, Band, Dance and Fair, and Roller Organs, Calliopes. Includes indexes and thousands of black and white advertisements and photographs; Typed revised December 1967 price list laid in. Combines historical catalogs and instruments in private collections and provides values for each instrument. Light wear to boards with rubbing to back tail corner; small bookstore inked stamp free endpaper otherwise contents in pristine condition.