I have all the Parker books and with the exception of the Johnson book, got them near contemporaneous with their publication. The Johnson book is interesting but incomplete and has factual errors. I have the Baer books in signed deluxe edition with NY showroom portfolio. I have the Muderlak Old Reliable in signed cased deluxe edition. Both the Baer and Muderlak books are egocentric....what the Parker means to them and their views about the guns.
My recommendation is far and away to obtain The Parker Story in both volumes and to obtain the CD of the Parker Pages that we offer. Anybody who intends to be serious about Parkers should have TPS, most of the questions we have seen posted here are answered in TPS. The other Parker books are interesting historically, but I can't recall the last time, if ever, that I picked up any book other than TPS to find the answer to a question.
In order of publication, they are Johnson, Baer, Muderlak and the Price /Mullins TPS.
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