The Marvelous World of Music Machines

Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1976. Near Fine condition (brief gift note on front free endpaper) in a Near Fine dust jacket (price-clipped). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT a library discard. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. . NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Hardcover. 10.75" wide by 12" tall. Illustrated with 300 photos, most in full-color. Includes a descriptive catalogue with sections on Idiophones, Chordophones, Aerophones, Orchestrions, Other Instruments and Devices. Appendices. Selected bibliography. Index. Bound in the original dark orange cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. First printing, with "First edition, 1976" so stated on the copyright page, and NO indication of any other printing. From the Dust Jacket: "Here is a handbook of Europe's largest and most comprehensive collection of musical automata and mechanical instruments. Some 300 music boxes, clocks, orchestrions, player-pianos, performing figurines, organs, and other delightful examples of music machines, dating from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, are reproduced in full color. Detailed information about periods and styles of construction, musical actions and techniques, operations, and compositions played makes this an authoritative guide." Shipping for this large, heavy book is most economical by MEDIA MAIL. Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater cost.. First Edition (so stated). Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 244pp.