📚 The Guitar

Six strings’ history: players and builders, technique and repertoire, and the instrument’s near-universal travel.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject guitar in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Guitar for dummies	Mark Phillips	1998	16
	German Hl Guitar Method Book 1	Will Schmid	1970	11
	Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles	Larry Sandberg	2006	11
	Iron man	Tony Iommi	2011	11
	The guitar handbook	Ralph Denyer	1982	9
	A Modern Approach to Classical Guitar	Charles Duncan	1981	8
	Guitar All-in-One For Dummies®	Consumer Dummies	2009	8
	Méthode pour la guitare	Fernando Sor	1971	7
	The classical guitar	Maurice J. Summerfield	1982	7
	Rock Guitar for Dummies	Jon Chappell	2001	7
	Mel Bays Modern Guitar Method	Mel Bay	1973	6
	The steel string guitar	David Russell Young	1975	6
	Guitarmaking, tradition and technology	William R. Cumpiano	1985	6
	Total guitar	Terry Burrows	1998	6
	The acoustic guitar	Don E. Teeter	1974	5
	Blues guitar inside & out	Richard Daniels	1981	5
	The natural classical guitar	Lee F. Ryan	1984	5
	Learn to Play Guitar (Usborne Music Guides)	Louisa Somerville	1988	5
	Play Guitar in 10 Easy Lessons	Jon Buck	2007	5
	How to Play Guitar	Roger Evans	1979	4
	Guitar Basics	Bruce Buckingham	1998	4
	Guitar player sessions	Andy Ellis	1998	4
	The Guitar Cookbook	Jesse Gress	2001	4
	Guitar Fretboard Workbook	Barrett Tagliarino	2003	4
	Fingerstyle Guitar	Brian Gore	2005	4
	Music Theory for Guitarists	Tom Kolb	2005	4
	Riffs	Rikky Rooksby	2010	4
	Guitar theory for dummies	Desi Serna	2013	4
	The guitar book	Tom Wheeler	1975	3
	Progressive lead guitar	Gary Turner	1982	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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