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

[victor steinbok]

I am not sure what you meant, but I'll try to clarify what I said.

I found volume 200 in the series that was originally published in 1911.
There is no other indication of the printing date, but the general
publisher's promo is attached in the back.

I also found volume 211, which was originally published in 1912. This one
also has publisher's promo attached in the back, but also has a
comprehensive excerpt of the publisher's catalog, including listing of books
to be published in 1929. From this I devised that the second volume (211)
was actually printed in 1928. I would not at all be surprised if the first
volume (200) was printed around the same time, but I have no overt
information one way or the other. Jon pointed to radio being mentioned, so
the ad must be 1922 or later.

VS-)

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> 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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