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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Collecting and Collectors | |
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| An Informal History of Record Collecting | |
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| How to Grade Records (And CDs and Tapes) | |
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| The World's Most Valuable Records | |
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| The World's Most Valuable Sleeves | |
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| Collecting on the Internet | |
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| Collections and Collectibles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Brief History of Recorded Sound | |
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| Acetates--The Rock Star's Rough Draft | |
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| Bootlegs--Beauties or the Beast? | |
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| Box Sets--All You Ever Needed to Know (Plus a Booklet) | |
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| Cassettes--Against All Odds | |
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| CDs--The Ultimate Hostile Takeover | |
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| CD-3s--Good Things Don't Always Come in Small Packages | |
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| Christmas--All I Want Is ... Something Different to Collect | |
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| 8-Tracks--Clunk, Click, Every Trip | |
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| Enhanced CDs--All This and Moving Pictures, Too | |
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| EPs--Albums on Installment Plans | |
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| Explicit Chapter--I Can't Believe You Just Said That | |
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| You Can't Show That Here--Collecting "Banned" Record Sleeves | |
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| Export Issues--Foreigners Have All the Fun | |
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| Flexidiscs--Bend Me, Shape Me | |
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| 45s--The Greatest Sound on Earth | |
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| 4-Track Cartridges--Nice Idea, but Not Enough Clunks | |
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| Interview Discs--Too Much Chatter | |
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| Jukebox Albums--More Bang for Your Buck | |
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| Labelology--The Train Now Standing ... | |
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| LPs--Twelve Inches of Pleasure | |
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| Mighty Tiny Toy Record Player--Batteries Not Included | |
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| Mini-8s--Small, but Smart | |
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| Mini Pac--Gone and Forgotten | |
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| Mono--One-Track Mind | |
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| MP3s--They're Music, but Are They Collectible? ("Probably Not," Says Little Nicola) | |
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| Nipper--The Story of His Master's Voice | |
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| PlayTapes--They Were Tapes. You Played Them | |
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| Pocket Discs--Music from the Hip | |
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| Pocket Rockers--For the Tiniest Tots of the Lot | |
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| Polish Postcards--Warsaw Packed | |
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| Promos--The Critics' Choice | |
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| Quadraphonic Sound--Extra Ears Optional | |
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| Quad-8s--Eight Tracks, Four Channels | |
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| Reel-to-Reel Tapes--High-End and Hot | |
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| 78s--Fragility as a Way of Life | |
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| 16 rpm--A Merry-Go-Round for Your Tortoise | |
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| Test Pressings, or Factory Samples--Just to Be Sure It Works | |
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| Transcription Discs--On Your Radio | |
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| 12-Inch Singles--They're Like 45s. Only Bigger | |
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| A Biographical Dictionary of Collectible Record Labels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A&M | |
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| Abel | |
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| Abner | |
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| Ace | |
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| Acta | |
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| Adam VIII | |
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| Amaret | |
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| Amy | |
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| Apple | |
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| Ardent | |
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| Argo | |
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| Astro | |
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| Asylum | |
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| Atco | |
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| Atlantic | |
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| Autumn | |
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| Bang | |
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| Barnaby | |
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| Battle | |
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| Beggars Banquet | |
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| Bell | |
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| Beserkley | |
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| Big Top | |
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| Big Tree | |
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| Blue Horizon | |
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| Bronco/Mustang | |
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| Brunswick | |
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| Brut | |
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| Buddah | |
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| Cadence | |
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| Cadet | |
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| Cadet Concept | |
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| Cameo-Parkway | |
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| Capricorn | |
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| Carrere | |
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| Challenge | |
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| Charisma | |
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| Charly | |
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| Checker | |
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| Chess | |
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| Chiswick | |
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| Colgems | |
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| Colpix | |
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| Cotillion | |
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| Cub | |
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| Dark Horse | |
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| Dawn | |
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| Del-Fi | |
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| Deram | |
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| Dimension | |
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| Dolton | |
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| Duke | |
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| Dunhill | |
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| Dunwich | |
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| DynoVoice | |
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| Elektra | |
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| EMI | |
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| Excello | |
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| Exodus | |
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| Factory | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Flip | |
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| Fly | |
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| Gee | |
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| Harvest | |
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| Heritage | |
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| Hickory | |
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| Hip | |