The Music Merchants: A Chronicle of the Impressarios, Entrepreneurs and Patrons who Popularised Serious Music in America

First edition.  242pp, with monochrome plate illustrations.  Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  CLoth very slightly pushed at spine tips.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glazed dust wrapper, a little bumped at edges and a couple of short creases to the inner front flap, price clipped.  

A history of the merchants and wheeler dealers who have dealt in music and musical instruments in the American market, and the music managers who have governed the scene, and the influence they have exerted on the musical world.