VI/618 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

VINYLVALUE
THE VALUE OF YOUR RECORDS

Catalogue and guide to collecting vinyl records of pop rock music produced in Italy

By means of a chronological reconstruction, the catalogue reports the market quotations of 360 complete vinyl record making produced in Italy, corresponding to more than 11,000 45 and 33 records. The work presents, with several hundreds of images, also the imaging evolution of the Italian vinyl labels of 55 record companies, further to a story "Italy in vinyl" and to 130 biographic hints of the main performers of pop rock music.
The reference is, above all in the first part, to Italy in the vinyl years, a country at the heights of its social and economic development that, by means of millions of records produced, showed to be able also to propose original and innovative musical ways, in spite of the suggestions of foreign brands.
In the second part, a lot of room is given to the performers of vinyl pop rock, with 130 biographic hints that help lovers to link record making to the artistic life of performers.
In the third and fourth part, the catalogue introduces, with hundreds of reproductions, the history and the imaging evolution of brands as protection of copyright together with the one of record companies and of their labels, giving to collectors an additional important support to identify original productions.
The fifth part, the main one, is based upon a selection of complete vinyl record making produced in Italy, with the relevant market quotations.

228 pp. - about 600 colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2019
Italian text

THE LETTER
Shape, aesthetics, curiosities, surprising aspects

Edited by Lorenzo Carra
With an introductive essay by Clemente Fedele

To discover the curious and hidden aspects of correspondence.
The work, accompanied by about 600 colour illustrations and relevant wide captions, was conceived by an idea of Beppe Ermentini, with the purpose of narrating curious, bizarre, unexpected and hidden aspects of correspondence to the lovers of the world of mail, suggesting the watching of postal documents, also from a point of view broader than the strictly philatelic or postal- historical one.
Unusual, strange, beautiful, curious covers and postcards, photos and notes that can reserve interesting surprises.

Divided into 25 chapters, each one devoted to a specific subject or kind of postal document, the book shows the reproductions of the relevant documents by category.