BESSIE SMITH Hot Jazz Classics - Empress Of The Blues (1940s US 4 x 10" 78RPM album set, issued as Volume 4 in a series of original recordings that made jazz history. Housed in a heavyweight gatefold jacket with die-cut card inners and liner notes by George Avakian pasted inside. The packaging is in VG condition with paper loss along the bottom edge. The discs are excellent, showing only light cosmetic marks that will easily clean away. A nice historic set for the 78 connoisseur C-31)