| Series | Guinness World Records / Book of Records / Book of World Records |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | 20/20 |
| Sub-Editor | Nicholas Heath-Brown, Stewart Newport, Alex E Read, Sheelagh Thomas, Peter J. Matthews |
| Art Director/Editor | David L. Roberts |
| Photo/Picture Editor | P. Alex Goldberg |
| Production Director/Manager | Chris Lingard |
| Editorial Assistant | Sheila Goldsmith, Muriel Ling |
| Production Support | Bernadette Bidwell, Tracey Brown, Ann Collins, Lisa Webster |
| Other | Anna Nicholas |
| Consultant | Simon Johnson |
| Indexer | Anna Pavord |
| Contributor | Andrew Adams, C V Appleton, John W Arblaster, Glenn A Baker*, Moira Banks, Howard Bass, Pat Besforth, Henry G Button, A C Carder, Bryan Castle, D H Clark, Colin Dyson, Keith Escott, Clive Everton, Frank L Forster, Bill Frindall, Tim Furness, Ian Goold, Steven Goldberg (2), Stan Greenberg, J C Greetham, Elizabeth Hawley, Albert Herbert, Ron Hildebrandt, Peter Johnson (2), Alan Jones (4), Peter Lunn, John Marshall (3), Andy Milroy, Alan Mitchell (2), David Mondey, John Moody, Ian Morrison, Susann Palmer, Tessa Pocock, John Randall, Chris Rhys, Patrick Robertson, Irvin Saxton, Robert Shopland, Colin C Smith, Graham Snowdon, William Stephens, Lance Tingay, Juhani Virola, A C Waltham, David Wells (3), Rick Wilson, Gerald L Wood, Tony Wood (3) |
| Editor | Per Theil Hansen, Juhani Stenqvist, Philippe Scali, Hans Heinrich Kummel, Athanasios Rigas, Ashok Gupta, Robert Stein, Orlygur Halfdanarson, Desu Subrahmanyam, Daphna Hausman, Maurizio Orlandi, Antoine Naufal, Klaas de Boer, Anne Fjeldberg, Margarita Jordan, Lisbet Ekberg, Aphai Prakobpol, David A Boehm, D Richard Bowen, Bob Burton, Ben Matsumoto |
| Cover Art by | Allsport, Bruce Coleman, Matthew Hillier |
| Artist | Rhoda Burns, Robert Burns (2), Peter Harper, Eddie Botchway, Ashley Hamilton-Lloyd, Suzanne Alexander |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| This Edition Published | 1989 |
| Pages / Font | 310 pages |
| ISBN | 0-85112-878-5 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9 780851 128788 |
