Will Roy Hearne (8 results)

Condition: Acceptable. Hollywood Premium Record Guide 1944 wraps heavily soiled and detached from binding.

Condition: Acceptable. Hollywood Premium Record Guide 1946 wraps are soiled and nearly detached from binding. pencil markings throughout.

Condition: Good. Hollywood Premium Record Guide 1948 wraps are soiled.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Wraps, prices on hundreds of records,soiled.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 95 pp.

Paperback. First Edition. Wraps, prices on hundreds of records,soiled. Finally you can find the price of Zez Confrey's "Kitten on the Keys!" ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 82 pp.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Wraps, very good with stains and creases. An international guide to record collectors of many different genres of music. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 36 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 46 pp. booklet ; blue stiff textured paper wrappers ; "This directory is designed to help collectors make contacts with each other--in the same city or around the world. A glance through these columns will show you just which items are the most easily traded." ; a very powerful resource for record collectors, then and now ; includes listings for the United States by state, and a few listings each for Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Japan, Libya, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay ; each listing shows personal information such as name of collector, address, telephone number, age, date collection began, estimated number of recordings, instruments played, collecting interest ; updated personal information added by previous owner in pencil ; (I phoned one of them, Frank Mare, originally from New Jersey, now living in Georgia, and--Holy Cow!--he answered, and we had a great time chatting about records--his collection has grown from 1,500 in 1970 to about 20,000 in 2013! There are hundreds more contact names in the listings.) ; VG. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first and second numbers of Will Roy Hearne's guide to the prices of 1940s records. Present here are Number One, 'Price List', dated 1944, and Number Two, 'Value Catalog', dated 1946.This publication continued into the 1970s, and was designed to aid record collectors in sourcing records and finding the correct prices of desired records.Providing information on records by such artists as Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.With a former owner's inscription to the head of the front wrap of the 1944 issue, and to the penultimate leaf of that volume. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Inscription to head of volume I front wrap, and significant handling marks to volume II wraps. Hinges of volume I strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean. Inscriptions to the penultimate leaf of volume I. Very Good. book.