TSUMURA, AKIRA. ‘One Thousand and One Banjos’ The Tsumura Co...

Hammer

£300

TSUMURA, AKIRA. ‘One Thousand and One Banjos’ The Tsumura Collection by Akira Tsumura. Scarce hardback book, with case and original shipping box, featuring comprehensive collection of Banjo’s, with over 3,000 art photographs throughout, including Banjo’s that cannot be found elsewhere. Sections on Minstrel era, late Victorian English, English Zither, English Presentation, American Classic, S.S. Stewart, and French banjos, French Mandolin Banjos, Ukulele Banjos, Bowl Mandolins, Four String Jazz Age Banjos (Bacon & Day, Epiphone, Gibson, Leedy, Ludwig, Paramount, Trujo, Vega, Washburn, Weymann, many more), plus New Banjo Makers, and Gibson Custom Shop. Limited one time production of 2,500 books, According to the winter 2009 edition of the Fretboard Journal, Akira Tsumura spent $3.8 million to have the books made. This works out to an original cost to produce these books was $1,520 for each copy. Published by Kodansha Amer Inc.