Echo: A Magazine of Sight and Sound. Volume One, Number One

First edition. Edited by John Wilcock. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs and drawings by Jules Feiffer and Joe Bertelli.Square 12mo. 29pp. Plastic comb bound hard card covers with center hole punched for playing on a turntable. The magazine includes five 7-inch (33-1/3 RPM) phonograph records including recordings of [1] Mike Nichols and Elaine May "Conversations at Breakfast," and "The Operating Theatre"; [2] "Fred Estaire Dances to Jazz at the Philharmonic"; [3] "Larry Adler Plays Harmonica"; [4] "Gypsy at Home with Jule Styne at the Piano"; and [5] "Alexander King: The Human Dilemma." The text also includes "Harmonica Man" by James Thurber, "Gypsy Rose Lee and Jule Styne Preview a New Musical," etc. Back cover prints "Directions" for listening to the records (without removing them from the magazine): "Fold the rest of magazine under [the record]; Place the entire magazine very flat on the turntable surface.". Covers have light wear at extremities, one leaf has tiny nick at center hole, else a very good copy with all five phonograph albums bound in as issued. Uncommon. *OCLC* locates only a single holding (Library of Congress). The premiere issue of this periodical, which last for only three issues.…