Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 016.780266 EAN: 9780375720796 ISBN: 0375720790 Label: House of Collectibles Manufacturer: House of Collectibles Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 688 Publication Date: 2004-11-09 Publisher: House of Collectibles Release Date: 2004-11-09 Studio: House of Collectibles
Featuring current prices for more than one million records, this is the only source collectors will need. The most up-to-date and accurate price guide to vinyl on the market today, The Official Price Guide to Records, 17th Edition covers every genre of music, including rock & roll, country & western, soul, pop, jazz, blues, easy listening, new wave, punk, alternative, R&B, and more. This guide is packed with valuable information on singles and albums by more than 50,000 artists released since 1902.
Special sections on: • First pressing identification. • Record grading. • Promotional issues. Tips on: • How to grade a record and cover. • How to care for your collection. • The best sources for the best record buys.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: give it up! Comment: welp..here it is.another book by jellyroll that says read it and become an expert!
really now.come on.
jerrys books have been going downhill for decades in my opinion.
his early books were great and showed great pics of rare 45s although they ignored 78s mostly untill ten years ago.
but the quality of this book and to honest the last ten or so has been decreasin down to the level of a newspaper.if fact its so bad that if you are blessed with bad eyesight like me,you shouldnt waste your time on this at all.
worse yet there are countless horrid errors.
many groups are thrown together only because they had the same name(although jerry is a nice guy and you can write or call him and tell him if he messes up or if you wanna contribute to his books.)
my real pet peeve on his guides are not only the horrible print,but the awfull and often pointless pictures given on individual pages.
like we wanna see some of these records at all?let alone in black and white>???
many color pics are now included but are mindlessly thrown in.
much attention if i want to be fair is elvis gets a load of attention..but its too confusing.
by the time i found a few of his titles to price my eyeballs were hurting and popping out!
last but not least,many artists have only labels and numbers listed.no names of the records.
sigh.
but if you want it buy it.
its a good book if you are starting out or if you are into whitburn who will probably do his own gudes eventually.
sorry jerry but thats how i feel after all the dough is spent. Customer Rating: Summary: VERY Misleading Title!! Comment: My low score for this book is based not so much on the book's content but on how it is titled and marketed. The title should be "The Official Price Guide to ROCK Records," because that's basically what it is. I purchased this book as a reference for records BEFORE the Rock era and found it virtually useless for that purpose. I am an antique dealer and most of the records I come across are from the 1940s and before. For example, I wanted to reference vintage records on the original cast of the musical "South Pacific", early Lawerence Welk, Gordon MacCrae, 1940s "Peter Pan" Children's records--not exactly "obscure" artists. NONE of these records were listed. For goodness sake, the book even contains a explanation in it's introduction on how its [precious few] "NON-ROCK" records (yes, they actually used the term "non rock")were selected for inclusion! If that's not a dead give away as to this book being basically a ROCK record reference I don't know what is! If you want a reference for ROCK music this may be your cup of tea, but if you seek to research "non rock" records this is NOT the book you want. I'm returning mine today! Customer Rating: Summary: guide to records Comment: The book was very informative about history of records. I was looking for something that would help me with pricing, unfortunately this book did not help. Customer Rating: Summary: Very disappointing Comment: Bought this book to look up some very old records that my folks had. Maybe 1 out of 50 is listed. This book is a piece of doodoo. Customer Rating: Summary: The Official Price Guide to Records, Edition #17 (Official Price Guide to Records Comment: It was exactly what I ordered, and was delivered on time
