Publisher: Backbeat Books
Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars 
Format: Hardcover
Updated and Revised Third Edition

Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars is the most extensive and detailed list of specifications ever published for identifying, dating, and establishing the authenticity of an instrument. This new edition is enlarged and updated, making it once again the essential guide enabling collectors, dealers, players, and fans to determine the authenticity, rarity, and relative value of vintage acoustic and electric guitars, basses, mandolins, banjos, and amps.

Gruhn's Guide's thoroughness, detail, and clear organization have made it without peer, the must-have tool for discerning an instrument's manufacturer, model, and date-and most importantly, whether it is in original condition.

You will not find a better guide, nor one that is so easy to use. – Vintage Guitar magazine

Major Manufacturers Covered:
Dobro
Epiphone
Fender
Gibson
Gretch
Guild
Kay
Larson Brothers
Martin
Mosrite
National
Ovation
Rickenbacker

Independent Makers:
Benedetto
Collings
D'Angelico
D'Aquisto
Gilchrist
Monteleone
Stromberg