Stringletter Media Vintage Guitar Limited Edition Hardcover Slipcase 2001

Hardcover in slipcase limited edition, never opened, still in original shrink wrap, published 2001. First edition.

Limited edition hardcover in slip case, number ??? of run of 300 copies, signed by editor and publisher on bookplate.

Vintage Guitars: The Instruments, the Players, and the Music is the first pictorial reference work to offer guitar enthusiasts, players and collectors an opportunity to explore the eventful, endless give-and-take between musicians and instrument makers that has produced America's popular music and its quintessential instrument. Generously illustrated with more than 150 photos of players, instruments, catalog pages and other memorabilia, this book features everything from the elegant American guitars of the 19th century to the evolving dreadnought, jumbo, 12-string, archtop resophonic and more - original instruments as well as contemporary incarnations and reissues. It spotlights the guitars of Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, the Everly Brothers, Tony Rice, Emmylou Harris, Ben Harper and others. This special collector's edition features the book in a hard-cover slip case.