The Laurel Music-Reader, Special Edition, from The Laurel Music Series, edited by W. L. Tomlins and published by C. C. Birchard & Company, Boston, 1923 (Stanhope Press, F. H. Gilson Company, April 1923; copyrights 1906, 1908 and 1910). It is a hardcover school songbook in printed paper boards with a cloth spine. Condition: the boards show a dark mark or stain at the front right edge, a faint water spot on the front, small spots on the back and edge wear, and the pages are toned but intact.

It is a vocal music reader for adolescent singers, with an introduction on training the boy's changing voice. It contains part-song arrangements such as Johann Strauss's The Beautiful Blue Danube, arranged by Osbourne McConathy.