The LP “has intensely stimulated the musical and cultural life of America”

Typescript foreword to “De Motte’s Long-Playing Phonographic Record Guide,” signed; with corrected draft, two typed letters, signed, and autograph letter, signed.

1955.

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

Published as Foreword to The Long Playing Record Guide, 1955. Typescript, typed letters, and autograph letter, 6 pages, with 2 mailing envelopes. 4to and smaller. The LP “has intensely stimulated the musical and cultural life of America”. Old folds, generally fine.

Item #266511

The original foreword by Stokowski to Warren De Motte’s The Long Playing Record Guide, 1955, the first comprehensive and sytematic survey of music available on LP, “from the great masters of symphonic and operatic music, to the popular and folk-music of nations all over the world, including African and Asiatic.”
From the collection of New York editor and bon vivant John Ferrone, long associated with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, where he edited the multivolume Letters and Diaries of Virginia Woolf, the Diaries of Anaïs Nin, and the HBJ paperback program. He was also editor of Alice Walker and Eudora Welty, and a long-time personal friend of James Beard, whose posthumous work he edited.