Price Guide for the Beatles American Records Hardcover – July 17, 2007

Probably the best Beatles guide for information available. Even though several years old, the data and photos are unsurpassed, and the most important aspect of this guide.

Long time casual Beatle collector and recently slowly moving into the Bealte-collecting world deeper. For several months I struggled to find information, questions i should be asking, values - I am fortunate it doesn't come as an App or PDA version or i'd simply look at it too much. The layout, photos, detail are wonderful. The intro is nicely unpatronizing. As said well abouve - I can't say enough about the Herculean task these guys keep 'once more onto the breach' doing with each new edition but...if I had a a humble wish list....in this digital priting and online age I'd love lots more written on counterfeits and repros (with detailed photos and recs for how to avoid) and more breakdown if possible on certain items in that dynamic of the gps from VG to NM pending on availability, etc - something to address the collapse of the VG=50%, G=10% etc. But, man, this book is so fantastic I can't complain and i'm sure it's getting better all the time....

I Use it all most every day

As the previous 10 reviewers have noted, this book is a great accomplishment by the authors.Like the other reviewers, I highly recommend it to you, the Beatles collector.Having this book in hand spurred me to go thru my collection item by item to see which versions I have (or don't have) and to look for unrecognized gems of high value. While doing that I was surprised to find more than a handful of items in my moderate-size collection that somehow ended up not in the book. Hard to believe that anything was left out or inaccurate, but it happens with any book as any writer will tell you. Hopefully the authors or publisher will have an errata or additions page somewhere on the web for us.Great book.Top of the line.A new gold standard for music collection price guides.Buy it "YESTERDAY".

Let's face it. Beatle memorabilia will always go up in price. Due to the fact that their story is as intense as the music itself it's really hard to pinpoint exactly what will go up in price and what (if anything) may go down. Add to that the ever present speculators and the forfeits and bootlegs...what to do?Buy a book from a known source. It's what I did. Mr. Cox does a great job and even though its been five years and the prices have gone up again, this is the book where you can decide to start a serious Beatle collection. Well done and a constant source of information relevant if only to collectors. A must have for serious ones like myself.

I found it difficult to use this book to UNDERSTAND the ORDER of Beatles LP's manufactured. The format seems disorganized. What I expected and would have preferred to see is a CHRONOLOGICAL listing of ALL BEATLES LP's, BY YEAR, RELEASE DATE (IF KNOWN), AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER with VARIATION NOTATIONS inserted in context with each listing. Being a collector who would like to build a collection of FIRST RELEASED MONO & STEREOPHONIC BEATLES LP's, from 1964-70 only, and only being able to locate items on eBay, I find it near impossible to match ebay seller's descriptions of specific Beatles recordings with items described in the Beatles Price Guide - leading to confusion and purchasing mistakes.I also wasn't happy with amazon.com's "quality control" shipping of the "New" Beatles Price Guide received. Approximately 10 pages in the center of the book, were VERY HEAVILY CREASED - and the shipping department failed to provide CUSHIONING in the packaging - resulting in the heavy Price Guide sliding freely from top to bottom during shipping, arriving in less than "new" condition.In fairness to aol.com, this is the FIRST time I've had a bad buying experience since first ordering through them 5 or 6 years ago. I just don't have the time or energy to make an issue of it and go through the trouble of returning to exchange for another copy. Have to pick my battles.JCZ

I'm new to record collecting, and this is my first ever record price guide, so I found the learning curve to be just a little bit steep. But now that I've gotten the hang of the terminology and the book's layout, this guide has proven to be invaluable, not only ensuring that I know exactly what I'm looking at, but also that I stay away from bad deals. The decision to include solo Beatles records and other Apple releases was also brilliant and greatly appreciated.

Endless info on all American Beatles vinyl.Highly recommend even to the novice collector.

Happy with the purchase the book was almost new.Thank you