OT: not "jazz (not music)--1911?"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/6/2011 04:54 AM, victor steinbok wrote:
>I found another volume in the series, this one with copyright date 1912, but
>published in 1928 (the big hint is the list of books at the end that is "to
>be published January 1929" or later). Still, this says nothing about the
>date of the other book.

The "big, clean, interesting books" became so popular in 1911 that
the publisher had a tremendous backlog by 1912 that it didn't expect
to clear up until after January 1929?

(I write this only because I am presently tussling with 3 manuscript
copies of the same original (which is not extant) that either claim
or appear to date the original and themselves in confusing and
inconsistent ways.)

Joel

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