as announced, 'The Rolling Stones - American Vinyl, Vol. II' will be available via your local Amazon in few days, according to Createspace schedule.

So, now the Collector has:

The RS British singles - the DECCA Years (445 pages, fully illustrated in colour)
The RS British singles - the RSR Years (350 pages, fully illustrated in colour)
The RS American Vinyl, Vol I (400 pages, fully illustrated in colour)
The RS American Vinyl. Vol II (300 pages, fully illustrated in colour)

Each volume unveils any aspect of record collecting: pressing plants, manufacturers of metal parts, who made what and where. When necessary, financial aspects are covered and matters concerning copyright controllers and lawsuits.

In particular, this latest book presents extras about US export matrices and export albums and, for the very first time, a 50-page long essay on Howlin' Wolf's London sessions plus a selected vinyl/CD discography of the sessions, including bootlegs.

Thank you everybody for sending up-dates, news and correction in. See you next year with
"A Family Affair - Sing This All Together"
1963/1977 single discography of side activities not only by the single stone, but also enlarged to ALO, Glyn Johns, Immediate and some little further surprises.

Collecting is search and research: never stop.
Thanks for caring, ciao,
Luca

The new book is now available on your local Amazon.
I hope you’ll like it.
Bye, Luca

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Any plan to get it available as ebook ? (kindle)

Createspace is moving to Kindle and things are getting harder to manage: I have to consider how much time it’d take me. We’ll see...