THE AUTO RADIO:

A Romantic Geneaology

by Donald W. Matteson

Jackson, Michigan: Thornridge Publishing, (1987).

First edition.

SIGNED by the author and inscribed to Vintage Radio Company owners Morgan & Gayle, who are mentioned in the preface.

A double-sided printed flyer for Vintage Radio's products is folded in half and laid in.

Abundantly illustrated with advertisements, sales catalogue pages, drawings, photographs, and more on almost every page.

A concise history of car radios, spiced with social nostalgic commentaries and accounts of culturally influenced events, enriched with loads of technical details, information on the production industries, and with an attention to collectible descriptions.

Corner tips lightly bumped, else near fine in black linen with silver embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good silver dust jacket with clear tape reinforced edge tears, a slender piece missing along the lower edge of the front panel, some creased indentations to the spine panel, and mild pucker-wrinkling.

Quarto; 298 pages; glossary; index.

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