The mysterious world of GIMMICK ALBUM COVERS – A journey through 90 years of materialistic album covers!

Immerse yourself in the WORLD CHRONOLOGY of over 250 fascinating materialistic vinyl record album covers and packaging of Rock, Hardrock, Prog Rock, Pop, Jazz and other music, that connect the history of vinyl from its beginning in 1946 to today. From one of the first record sleeves from 1904, a 12” and at the same time with a gimmick album cover, to the design of the present day. craZy WONDERWORLD – GIMMICK ALBUM COVER presents a visual journey through 9 decades and over 30 different materials. Discover how the art of materialistic album covers has developed.

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Indispensable for vinyl lovers and album cover fans!

Learn the story behind the record sleeves and it's 12" record from 1902 and the connection with the world's first vinyl sleeve, a materialistic sleeve, from 1946.

From edible paper to steel sleeve

More than 30 materials, from over 20 countries – experience the incredible variety of materialistic album packaging.

The top features of the book:

  • craZy WONDERWOLRD - GIMMICK ALBUM COVER presents over 250 materialistic album covers and packaging in words and pictures on 288 pages with 259 illustrations.

    The book presents about 96% of all materialistic gimmick album covers ever produced on this planet.

    The unique WORLD-CHRONOLOGY spans 9 decades, from around 1930, and ends in 2023 with a materialistic album packaging by Taylor Swift.

    It shows covers made of more than 30 materials, from edible paper to steel sleeve.

    Exhibits from over 20 countries are presented and show the diversity in materialistic album cover design.

    • The book presents for the first time in the world one of the first and factory-dated record sleeves from 1904, which is not presented either on the Internet or in other printed works.
    • The WORLD-CHRONOLOGY features the world's first official, factory-dated and materialistic 12" vinyl cover from 1946, which is not listed anywhere on the Internet or in any other printed publication.
    • Presented is the world's first misprint of a 12" vinyl sleeve, a materialist sleeve, and its corrected version, both factory dated 1946, and also not listed anywhere.

  • craZy WONDERWORLD – GIMMICK ALBUM COVER provides insights into the current value of the exhibits and their possible value development over the next 10 years.

    The rarity index evaluates the rarity or frequency of the records shown.

    The adventurous story of the 12” record and its cover as well as the background of the vinyl cover are told.

    All main texts are written in English and German.

    The edition is in hardcover, limited, factory numbered inside and shrink-wrapped.

    This WORLD CHRONOLOGY of international standard is listed in the British Library in London and in the German National Library in Frankfurt.

Your chance for a fascinating WORLD CHRONOLOGY

Limited, numbered edition with the most materialistic album covers of this planet. The ultimate work for vinyl collectors, album cover fans, designers, art lovers or record historians.

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