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Angry Penguin has published “Pink Floyd: Reflections and Echoes: On Record, On Stage and On Film.”

The 128-hardcover book was written by Bob Carruthers and includes four DVDs of concert footage and interviews with the band, as well as with journalists and musicologists.

Nigel Cross and Michael Heatley provided additional material for the book. The DVDs are presented by Tommy Vance.

Carruthers is an Emmy award-winning scriptwriter, television director, and music promoter.

Vance was a radio DJ, most famously with Radio Caroline and BBC Radio 1. He passed away in 2005.

The book/DVD set retails for $49.95. Buy it now on Amazon.com.

PictureBox will publish “For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis,” a coffee-table book featuring the work of the design team responsible for nearly all of Pink Floyd’s album covers.

The book will feature more than 60 package designs for bands such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Styx, and, of course, Pink Floyd.

Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in 1968, the group’s first cover for Floyd was “A Saucerful of Secrets” that same year.

Floyd drummer Nick Mason, along with other musicians, artists and designers, contribute essays to the book, which is written — or, as Thorgerson told Floydian Slip in a 1997 interview, “‘compiled,’ I think is a better word than ‘written’ — by Thorgerson and Powell.

The 224-page book comes out in hardcover Dec. 1, with a cover price of $45. Pre-order your copy for less than $30 online now.

Netherlands publisher Aprilis will publish Charles Beterams‘s “Pink Floyd on Forty-Five” on Nov. 1.

The book will provide details on more than 600 commercial and promotional 7-inch singles, as well as test pressing and acetates from the band.

The book will also be released in English as a 9″ x 9″ hardcover title. The first 1,000 copies will be numbered and will include a special 7-inch single of Roger Waters‘s “Hello (I Love You),” from the motion picture soundtrack “The Last Mimzy.”

Beterams’s previous work includes co-authoring “Pink Floyd In De Polder,” detailing Floyd’s concerts in The Netherlands and Belgium.

For more details go to www.floydstuff.com.

British publishing company Gloria will publish “Scarfe on The Wall,” a “monograph” book featuring artwork from Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” by Gerald Scarfe.

A limited edition of 300, the book is signed by Floyd’s Roger Waters and includes:

An in-depth interview with Scarfe about his creative journey and involvement with Pink Floyd in the Earls Court show and film for “The Wall”

Eight numbered prints signed by Scarfe, including three never-before-seen prints preparatory sketches and artwork for the album and animation

The prints are 16″x20″ giclée prints on thick matte art paper.

Available now from www.scarfeonthewall.com, copies of the set are available at the pre-order price £1,195 (approximately $2,340) for a limited time only.

To place an order, email orders@glorialuxury.com.

U.K. publisher Reynolds & Hearn will release “Rex Collections: Pink Floyd” (ISBN: 978-1905287499) on May 28.

The book, edited by Marcus Hearn, will be the sixth in the publisher’s series of titles devoted to rock photography culled from the archive of Rex Features, a London stock photography firm. It includes photos of Floyd from the late-’60s through the present.

Each copy of the limited edition of 1,500 will be individually numbered. List price is $45, with major retailers like Amazon selling it for less than $30.

Hearn is the author and editor of a number of books focused on the entertainment industry, including “The Cinema of George Lucas,” “Tarantino A to Zed: The Films of Quentin Tarantino,” and “What Made Thunderbirds Go!: The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson.”

Purchase a copy online now.