Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries

Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Books, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 289pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. In the illustrated dust jacket. May require extra postage due to weight. Filled with spectacular photographs of dozens of early instruments by Martin, Ashborn, Stauffer, Henry Schatz, and other early builders, many of them presented full page.