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Where Did All the Books and CDs Go?

All Mainspring Press books and CDs have now sold out. After two decades and seventy releases, Mainspring has exited book and CD production and is now publishing exclusively online, through the free Mainspring Blog and Online Reference Library, as a way of thanking the research and collecting communities that have supported us for so many years.

Used copies of American Record Companies and Producers, 1888-1950 may be available from time to time, through us or third parties. Please e-mail us if you would like to be notified should a copy become available.

A reminder: All Mainspring Press publications (other than Brian Rust's Jazz Records, which has been placed in the public domain) retain full copyright protection, even if not currently in print. They may not be reproduced or distributed, in any form or by any means, and whether not for profit, without our express written consent. 
 

The Mainspring Press Free
Online Reference Library

The Gus Haenschen Interviews
(James A. Drake)

The International Record Company
Discography

Russian Interference: Boris Morros, ARA Records,
and the Soviet Infiltration of Hollywood

RCA Victor Program Transcriptions
Complete Discography

Audio Oddities: William S. Hart Seeks
a Lost Friend in Alaska (1930)

From Kodisk to Speak-O-Phone: Victor & A. T. Emerson
Launch the Instantaneous-Recording Industry

Victor Emerson's Personal
Photograph Album

Enrico Caruso's "MeToo" Moment:
The 1906 Monkey House Scandal

The Records Guglielmo Marconi Didn't Invent:
The Marconi Velvet Tone Story

Sam Moore: From "Laughing Rag" to
"Spooning and Ballooning" (and Beyond)

Efrain Bain's South American
Record Piracy Operation

American Record Corporation Marketing Materials
(1935 - 1937)

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra:
Newspaper Highlights, 1924 - 1931

Cal Stewart (Unce Josh): Newspaper Highlights,
1892 - 1919

"Oh, That Damned Horn": Rosa Ponselle Talks About
Her Recordings (The James A. Drake Interviews)

 
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