A new book by Alan White, entitled "Elvis Presley - HMV Worldwide Discography" was released.
From the press release:
This is the Work of Alan White the foremost Specialist in the Elvis Presley HMV Worldwide Released Records 78rpm / 45rpm / EP’s & LP’s (Including Test Pressings/ Demonstration Discs / Variations etc, etc) Did you know POP 408 Lawdy, Miss Clawdy was Issued in the UK with Gold Lettering !! (I certainly didn’t) Have you ever seen a Solid Centre Elvis UK HMV 45rpm !! (I Hadn’t) If you thought you knew about the Elvis HMV Releases…..Think Again!! Meticulous Detail to easily Identify the Variations. With Excellent Colour Photographed Covers & Labels (Colour Photographs give a much truer Picture of a Label than a Colour Scan) this Magnificent 100 page plus is all you need to know regarding Elvis’ historic releases on this Label. 78’s from England / Ireland / N.Zealand / Pakistan 45’s from England / New Zealand EP’s from England LP’s from England / New Zealand & Much, Much, More This is being Exclusively Sold through The Elvis Shop / Studio B This Book is aimed at the Serious Collector of the HMV Label.
It's a great pity such a useful book for collectors is being given such a narrow distribution. These authors work for years on books such as these. I'm sure if Amazon was involved they would sell a lot more copies.
Fully agree with Buff-horn. Shortsighted (it seems) authors and publishers I'd say. Too bad for fans that wanna keep track
My point about this book, and many others, is that whilst the fans who read this website will keep their ears to the ground & know what is available, the general public will never know about worthwhile books such as this. I am aware that Amazon will take a cut – that is how they make a living.. but most authors will sell enough extra books that way to still make more of a profit than selling them privately. It's worth pointing out that the recent "EPs Graceland" by Joe Pirzada was widely reported on all the Elvis sites as not being available on Amazon, which was totally inaccurate. I never noticed any retraction on this inaccurate report. Instead everyone was urged to buy it from Elvis sites favoured on the internet - which is a good example of the sort of exclusivity that I wrote about.
There is also the minor matter that with Amazon you get free postage!! Of course some pedantic people may not want to save a fiver, but like most other Elvis fans, I do!
This is a very limited print run.The subject as others have mentioned is very specialist and would be of no interest to Amazon. If you have an interest in Elvis on HMV you will want this book a fiver postage is not something to get het up about when you are looking through this superb volume and realising what you didn't know about the HMV releases. This is the culmination of Alan's lifetime of work and his expertise in this subject is unsurpassed. Serious about HMV, buy it. It is a wonderful book
