Elvis: The Ultimate Album Cover Book

The shelves of Elvisiana receive another notable addition in Elvis: The Ulitmate Album Cover Book, by Paul Dowling, who owns the world's largest Elvis record collection. In full color, the book reproduces 226 album covers from nearly 40 different countries, including not only the expected ones (American versions of the movie soundtrack platters, for instance) but also many rare limited or foreign editions, such as the 1965 Japanese edition of Jailhouse Rock, which presents on its garish cover an Elvis whose features, especially his hair, are given a decidedly Nipponese cast.