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ISBN 978-0-7643-0964-9 Vintage Electric Guitars In Praise of Fretted Americana William G. Moseley Jr.,Photography by Bill Ingalls Jr., Foreword by Jeff Carlisi ISBN: 978-0-7643-0964-9 $39.95 US | £36.99 GBP | $56.95 CAN HC • 176 pp. • 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) 450+ color images Music / Musical Instruments / Guitar AVAILABLE: NOW ISBN 978-0-7643-1361-5 Fascinating discussions of a full spectrum of companies, including Fender, Gibson, Harmony, Kay, Valco, Peavey, Guild, Danelectro, and many others. An extravaganza for electric-guitar lovers! This book features hundreds of American-made guitars and basses from the ’40s to the ’80s, including many rare brands and models. Read about the ups and downs of major companies like Fender and Gibson, and trace their variations in guitar design over the years. Learn more about Harmony and Kay, the “big two” of budget guitars. In fact, this book features many guitars that are often much harder to find on the vintage market—the “everyman” guitars, the student and budget models that got us started. Here you’ll find fascinating discussions of Valco, Peavey, Guild, Danelectro, and many others, along with chapters devoted to “One-Shots” and “Sordid Seventies Samples and Early Eighties Oddities.” Guitar enthusiasts will find not only the guitars they have dreamed of owning, but the ones they first owned. An authoritative and entertaining text, a helpful lexicon, gorgeous photographs, and foreword by .38 Special guitarist Jeff Carlisi make this book a necessity for any musician’s library. ISBN: 978-0-7643-1361-5 $29.95 US | £27.99 GBP | $42.95 CAN PB • 160 pp. • 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) 289 color images Music / Musical Instruments / Guitar AVAILABLE: NOW Author/columnist/lecturer Willie G. Moseley has been a feature writer and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine since 1989. This collaboration with Bill Ingalls Jr. is his sixth book. Electric Guitars Robert Goudy Histories of the electric guitar’s development and the companies that produced them are included, along with over 450 color photographs of individual guitars and lists of serial numbers to assist in dating the instruments you collect. With over 450 color photographs, this book presents a brilliant review of electric guitars from their early years in the mid-20th century to the present day. A broad range of instruments are illustrated, produced by companies both large and small, including Fender, Gibson, Guild, Ampeg, and Ibanez. Also included are a history of the development of the electric guitar, brief histories of the companies represented, and lists of serial numbers to assist in dating the instruments. Values for the instruments presented are included in the captions. Robert Goudy has been a collector and dealer of electric guitars for many years. 28 FEATURED TITLES: SCHIFFER MUSIC