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Where Did the Books Go?

After twenty years and nearly seventy releases, Mainspring Press exited book and CD production in 2020. All books and CDs have now sold out.

We are now publishing exclusively online, through The Mainspring Record Collectors' Blog and Mainspring Press Online Reference Library.

Please keep in mind that all Mainspring Press publications, including our free online editions, remain under full
copyright protection, whether or not currently in print. 
 

Available Exclusively on the Mainspring Press Blog

THE JAMES A. DRAKE INTERVIEWS:

Irving Berlin

Gus Haenschen

Rosa Ponselle

Artie Shaw

THE MAINSPRING PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY:
Free Downloads for Personal, Non-Commercial Use

SHUTTING DOWN THE RECORD INDUSTRY:
James Caesar Petrillo and the First AFM Recording Ban

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE: Boris Morros, ARA Records,
and the Soviet Infiltration of Hollywood

EMERSON RECORDS: The Complete Discography,
1915 - 1928  (Allan Sutton)

RCA VICTOR PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTIONS:
The Complete Discography  (John R. Bolig)

AUDIO RARITIES : William S. Hart Seeks a
Lost Friend in Alaska (1930)

FROM KODISK TO SPEAK-O-PHONE: Victor Emerson and A. T. Emerson Launch the Instantaneous-Recording Industry

VICTOR EMERSON: Snapshots from the
Family Album

ENRICO CARUSO'S "ME TOO" 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)

78 RECORD PIRACY: Efrain Bain's South American
Record-Pirating Operation

THE AMERICAN RECORD CORPORATION:
Promotional Materials, 1935 - 1937

FLETCHER HENDERSON'S ORCHESTRA:
Newspaper Highlights, 1924 - 1931

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

"Oh, That Damned Horn": Rosa Ponselle Talks Candidly
About Her Early Recordings