This book fills a huge gap in the bookshelves of Star Wars collectors. Also, you'll need a huge gap in your bookshelf just to fit it. A long time ago, Tomarts was the standard - the best guide available to collectors but it has long since gone woefully out of date. Since that time, no other book has been published to take its place.

Until now.

Gus and Duncan's Book is the new standard in definitive references for the SW collector. This thing is huge - scary huge - and jam packed with a geek treasure trove of information, data, lists, dates and prices of everything (toys are just one relatively small section). It covers food premiums, posters, clothing, you name it. Even those little Mexican Frito-Lay stickers from The Phantom Menace!

This isn't some coffee table book from Chronicle filled with hi-res images of a handful of amazing toys that you'll never own. This is a reference tome that you will be reaching for constantly when you need to figure out what to bid for that Polish one-sheet or which Japanese Pepsi premiums you are still missing. Do you have all of the bottle toppers? Do you?

If you are a Star Wars collector, you need this book. And not just because it is a Star Wars collectible itself. It is the Rosetta Stone of Star Wars collectibles!

If you're looking for a guide with teeny tiny picutres, underscored by even smaller text, then sure, this book is for you.

If you're looking for poorly taken pictures, most of which are crooked, uncropped, and out of focus, then sure, this book is for you.

If you want a heavy, unmanageable book that's difficult to navigate, then sure, this book is for you.

Gus and Duncan get the tip of the hat for cramming this book with lots of Star Wars goodies, but the book doesn't do much good considering all of the above.

If anything, Gus and Duncan's Comprehensive Guide To Star Wars Collectibles is an expensive lesson learned as to what "not" to do. It's far from what I expected quality wise, and overall, a very disappointing purchase.

As a collector since 1977, I've always hoped someone would put together a comprehensive collectibles guide that lists all -- or just about all -- the items created around the world since the first film’s debut. I think we’ve finally got that with Gus and Duncan’s Comprehensive Guide, and the hobby owes a great debt of gratitude to the authors for their tireless devotion to all things Star Wars.

For years, most of us have clung to the old Tomart guide which came out in the early ‘90s, which, in its day, was essentially the bible for Star Wars collectors, remaining a fixture on our shelves for nearly two decades. Gus and Duncan’s new guide easily continues the tradition of that benchmark work by Sansweet, upgrading and expanding the listings to include all the prequel films and so much more -- including scores of fan-produced collectibles, an area of interest I personally find fascinating.

One’s first impression of this book is its sheer size and weight -- you know this thing represents a monumental achievement just by holding it. Once opened, the amount of imagery crammed into the listings is unbelievable. The time it must have taken to shoot the thousands of items depicted can’t even be imagined.

As an editor for Lucas Online, I find myself needing a great many resources for my research, and have often turned to Gus and Duncan’s Star Wars Collector’s Archive (theswca.com) website for information on the vague, unexplored areas of the hobby. This book’s got all that and more -- it’s easily going to be one of the most utilized research tools here at work and at home.

If you’re a diehard Star Wars collector, or even someone new to the hobby, this book is an absolute essential. It’s unprecedented, and will likely be unmatched in the foreseeable future. I have no doubt it will inherit the distinction of “bible” among Star Wars collectors within a few months of its release, and hope we’ll see more updated volumes in the future.

Finally, someone (or someones in this case) put together a definitive guide to all things Star Wars. It is great to see Gus and Duncan put their knowledge out there to share with other collecters in this tome. If there is any book that you would want to find out about the SW line of collectables, this is it.

The way the layed everything out, chapter and catagory wise, was what was missing from other guides to date. With their book, it's alot easier to find that certain item instead of hunting for it. Kudos to you guys and thanks alot.

After 15+ year of collecting European stuff I thought I new everything about all Swedish collectibles and most cool European items. I was so wrong. I found so many items I never knew existed thanks to this fantastic reference bibl... eh book.

Definitely a must have in every collectors library!

As a long time collector who owns most, if not all, of the price guides that have been published since 1997 I was thrilled to hear about this book.

Most of those earlier guides focused on the mainstream items that were the bulk of what people collected. For people like me who collected more esoteric items, there wasn't much in those guides to help us find what we had or to know what else there was available.

Not anymore.

This book was created by two of the biggest Star Wars collectors in the world, whose knowledge of the subject is staggering. Thousands upon thousands of items are gathered in this book, many of which have never been seen before.

The images are good enough that you can spot an item you have and the numbering system is easy to navigate to find that listed item. The only problem is that sometimes there are TOO many items, but you can blame the Lucasfilm licensing department for that.

If you are a collector and want the best guide as a reference or a check list, this is the book for you.

Like so many fans and collectors, I was thrilled to hear about Gus and Duncan's Comprehensive Guide to Star Wars Collectibles. While I will admit, I have often times found their website difficult to navigate, the thought of having a book with all the information in my lap was rather appealing.

That was until I got the book.

For starters, the book is way too big. Rather than be one giant tome of 900+ pages, it would have been a lot easier to read the book had it been broken up into at least two or three volumes. This also would have allowed for a much larger print in the text.

The pictures themselves (while many), were rather disappointing. Between being blury and uncropped, it looked more like a students essay than a professionally done price guide.

The actual conent is cumbersome, and often times difficult to track down what you're looking for. It would have been easier had the information been broken down a little simpler as opposed to three intermixed catagories. For example, the video section is broken down by format, then once again broken down by Country, then again broken down by actual movie.

It didn't help that things were all grouped together regardless of what they were. For example, action figure posters were mixed with movie posters as opposed to being in their own catagory.

I've also noticed that several sections are incomplete. While I understand that amassing a book dedicated soley to Star Wars merchandise is not an easy task, it was still disappoint that for the price, several sections were lacking particular items.

I'm sure many collectors will find this book a great wealth of knowledge. For me, it just doesn't work. While I admit, it's far greater than I could personally do, again, for the price, it just wasn't what I was expecting. Perhaps like The Phantom Menace itself, the book just couldn't live up to all the expectation of the hype surrounding it.