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Guitars

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ISBN 978-0-7611-3800-6 --- 4X6" ---520 pages.
This is the most incredible book I have ever seen on guitars...nearly 500
pictured in beautiful color, with editorial comments on the development of many guitars. Excellent!! You won't be sorry!

This book is great. I've been playing guitar on and off for 30 years and I have not seen a book like this. It's informative, the pictures are very clear, for a book this size and it educates at the same time. I know more and remember more about the old and new guitars, artists and luithers than I did before I bought this book. I was disappointed at first by it's size, but I realized later, it fits in your back pocket, so you can take it anywhere!

From the introduction:

"Guitars: A Celebration of Pure Mojo features approximately 500 guitars. Its aim is not to quantify, qualify, or analyze, nor does it try to speak to the scholar, social historian, or dyed-in-the-wool collector. This is a celebration of the instrument - famous instruments and forgotten instruments, milestone designs and dead-end experiments, ravishing beauties and instruments as bluntly functional as a hammer."

I've read many guitar books and the instruments that this book covers, in a little over 300 pages, is amazing - instruments I've not seen covered in other, bigger publications. There is not a great deal of text, but what there is is valuable - the essential details. Excellent quality pictures for such a small format.

Not for those who want to distinguish between, say a '54 and '55 Stratocaster, but there are plenty of other books that try to do that.

If you only want one guitar reference book buy this one! If you already have other books, buy this anyway! Its small enough to fit in your pocket on those trips to the flea market.

truly amazing book. awesome pix. beautiful prose.

A celebration of pure mojo, indeed.

if only it came in a scratch-n-sniff version!

I got this book as a gift awhile back and just saw it here. There are so many guitars and descriptions on the book that at times I look to it for reference when looking to buy a guitar or research one.

This book is small and a good source for specific colors and models of all styles of guitar.

This is one of those coffee-table books that is the coffee-table book. The pages are a little bigger than postcard sized but the format works very well for guitars. It's amazingly complete for such a small book. I suppose I should recuse myself from reviewing this book because one of the guitars I made appears in it.

My brother really liked this gift book as he is a guitar enthusiast. I'm so glad I got it for him.

I bought the guitar book as a stocking stuffer for my Husband. He really loves the compact size, great pictures of the different guitars and the neat information that is with each of the pictures. A great little book, full of interesting facts and some really cool guitars!!!

And want to read more about their history in an accessible, non-academic format, get this book. If you like learning about famous, infamous, and just darn unusual guitars, get this book. If you like reading about the innovative makers and players, get this book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and even though I am more of a fan of electrics than acoustics, I found the acoustic portions indispensable to my knowledge of the instrument.

This is a great little book for those who enjoy the history of guitar brands, styles, etc., with pic to match.