Do Not Sell At Any Price : The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (Hardcover)

from bjkelley

Do I have any interest in collecting 78 rpm records? NO Is Amanda Petrusich such a good writer that I would read a book about that topic: YES

from fphoppe

As a collector, I can relate. The book's sections don't comprise some glorious unified whole, but I didn't much care. Ms. Petrusich has very interesting insights into the obsessive collector and on what lies behind the desire to collect. It was mostly a deep pleasure to read.

from Caryn.Rose

This is such an incredibly special book I have been delaying marking it as finished because I feel like I need a lot of time to write about it. This is a phenomenal, very human, very detailed detour into this world, but also serves as a roadmap into other similar worlds. It is as rich and detaile...

from JBD1

Even with a few tiny flaws, this is one of the best books I've read all year. Petrusich immerses herself in the weird, wild world of collectors of 78s (and you thought book collectors were an interesting bunch ...), digging into archives, listening to rare records in collectors' living rooms, paw...

from Caryn.Rose

This is such an incredibly special book I have been delaying marking it as finished because I feel like I need a lot of time to write about it. This is a phenomenal, very human, very detailed detour into this world, but also serves as a roadmap into other similar worlds. It is as rich and detaile...