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New Revised and Expanded Edition


COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO
VICTOR RECORDS

By Michael Sherman
with Kurt Nauck


Collectors Guide to Victor 78 Records

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Out of print since 1995, the Collector's Guide to Victor Records is finally back in a greatly expanded edition featuring a fully revised text and more than 850 high-quality color illustrations.

You'll find a wealth of information on all Victor and RCA records produced through the end of the 78-rpm era, including:

  • Berliner and other predecessor labels
  • Subsidiary and client labels
  • Picture discs and puzzle records
  • Radio transcriptions and movie-soundtrack discs
  • Special ethnic and export labels
  • Private and promotional issues
  • Children's records and educational series
  • Prototype labels, in-house samples and test pressings
  • Record sleeves, albums, and special packaging
  • Catalogs, supplements, and advertisements

Other features include a label rarity guide; catalog-number release graphs; a chronological outline of label types, an annotated bibliography; and subject index.

7 x 10" quality paperback (coated stock)
288 pages • 850 illustrations

ISBN No. 978-0-9632903-3-5


MICHAEL SHERMAN is the author or co-author of Note the Notes, The Paper Dog, and other important works on early 78-rpm records. He published the first edition of A Collector's Guide to Victor Records in 1992. A resident of the Los Angeles area, he is a professional numismatist, and is the founder of Monarch Record Enterprises.

KURT NAUCK is the owner of Nauck's Vintage Records, one of the world's largest dealers in historic sound recordings. He is the co-author of Notes the Notes, American Record Labels and Companies, and Mainspring's upcoming Indestructible and U-S Everlasting Cylinders.


Victor and RCA-Victor 78 rpm Records



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