Great great book

Unsure if this one has made it to the U.S., but if not, it is fully worth Googling. Swiped description, hence the grammar:
*The Record Covers / Takeaki Emori
*2940yen, Jun 2005, ISBN: 4-86020-135-3 Hardcover
New design guide book for graphic designers, of lining up 238 record jackets selected by 17 graphic designers / creative directors. Editing and planning by Takeaki Emori. If you have brilliant ideas and design sense in addition to the strong D.I.Y. spirit, you don't have to get formal education on art or design to venture into the jacket design or typography at the low cost. This book is aimed for those new generation designers (or those who simply have interest in the graphic designs). If you love music, culture, fashion, design, the book will be a huge inspiration for you. The designers who selected the record jackets include the following: ABAKE (from UK. Art director for Air, Daft Punk, Kitsune) EYE (Yamataka EYE. Boredoms.) Hideki Inaba (NIKE ad artwork director) Laurent Fetis (from France: artwork design for Tahiti80, Beck / graphic design for the film "CQ".) Masami Akita (Merzbow) Moog Yamamoto (Buffalo Daughter) Naohiro Ukawa (Prof. of Kyoto University of Art and Design; designer, VJ and writer) SYRUP HELSINKI (from Finland. Ad artwork for TOYOTA and NOKIA.)