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For the first time ever, the world's most elite guitars are presented together in this limited collector's edition. Years in the making and featuring high-definition, state-of-the-art original photography throughout, The Guitar Collection is half music documentary and half photographic odyssey. Corralling the cumulative knowledge of dozens of guitar experts and preeminent music photographers, The Guitar Collection features the most stunning, singularly significant, coveted, priceless guitars from the most exclusive public and private collections around the world. 

The high-art original photography shows details never before imagined, like the scratch marks from the Gibson L-5 Maybelle Carter used for five decades, or the wear on the left-handed Competition Mustang Kurt Cobain played for the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.

“The Guitar Collection is, indeed, the single most sumptuous source of guitar glamour to have ever been conceived. It's an overwhelming compendium, so dazzling in its scope that you might have to lie down after paging through it." --Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top

"The Guitar Collection is, without a doubt, the most beautiful & visually engrossing guitar expose I've ever seen. For guitar lovers it is the Sistine Chapel of its ilk & almost as big." --Slash

“The Guitar Collection book is, literally, by far the "heavyweight" of all guitar books. It tips the scales on content, size, and beautiful photos, and has coolness never before experienced by the true guitar collector.” --Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick