The Blues Line | A Collection of Blues Lyrics | Compiled by Eric Sackheim | with Illustrations by Jonathan Shahn | A MUSHINSHA BOOK | Published by GROSSMAN PUBLISHERS
First Published in the United States of America | in 1969 by | GROSSMAN PUBLISHERS, INC | 125 A East 19th Street | New York, N.Y. 10003
Distributed in Japan by | CHARLES E. TUTTLE CO., INC | Suido I-chome, 2-6, Bunkyo-ku | Tokyo, Japan
Designed and produced by Mushinsha Limited, IRM/Rosei Bldg., 4, Higashi Azabu I-chrome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, | Japan. Copyright in Japan, 1969, by Eric Sackheim. All rights reserved. Printed in Japan.| First edition, 1969. | Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 78-87912
To the Memory of Go-Toba-In (1180-1239) | Who Had a Vision of What an Anthology Might Be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | To give credit, where due, passages in the preceding pages have, to the best of my memory, previously| appeared as follows [extensive list of texts from which contents were compiled]
Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics (1969 Mushinsha Edition)
1969 edition, produce by Mushinsha Limited, IRM/Rosei Bldg, Tokyo