Carman McRae's best album
the 1958 BOOK OF BALLADS                                                    

Near-mint record and jacket, aside from my library number on the jacket back.          

Trio w/orchestra: Don Abney, piano, Charles Smith, drums, Joe Benjamin, bass

Songs:
By Myself (Dietz-Schwartz)
The Thrill is Gone (Brown-Henderson)
How Long Has This Been Going On (Magidson-Wrubel)
Do You Know Why (Burke-Van Heusen)
My Romance (Rodgers-Hart)
Isn't it Romantic (Rodgers-Hart)
If Love is Good to me (Evans-Spielman)
When I fall in Love (Heyman-Young) [spectacular lyric]
Please be Kind (Cahn-Chaplin)
He Was Too Good to me (Rodgers-Hart)
Angel Eyes (Adair-Dennis)
Something I dreamed Last Night (Yellen-Magidson-Fain)          

All my scans and photos are of the item for sale. No stock images.          

                                                       

                           
                                   

          For foreign shipments, we ship FOB so if the US Post Office will not insure shipments to your country, the risk of loss or damage is yours.

We pack and ship immediately upon payment.        

     

                               

         I've been selling one-owner vinyl and shellac as Records For Recollectors as a hobby since 1963. The day JFK was shot I was typing my first catalog. I sell original US issues, not re-issues or imports. Now for the first time I'm selling off my personal collection of about 1800 mono LPs dating from the 40s to the 60s. Scarce obscurities throughout, offered only on ebay. Most surfaces are near mint or mint. I have 54 years experience grading vinyl. I'm not perfect but accuracy is my only aim.   After 4 score years my hearing is shot, so it's all for sale now, the best and the rest.          

NOTE: Records in my personal collection at least 50 years have my library number on the jacket back, upper right, often twice.            

You can use ebay's "Ask Seller a Question" to send me a brief vinyl want list. Any I have, I'll sell here. No off-site deals.                                          

                       

                               

        US shipping is by Priority Mail or Media Mail, depending on value, and Priority Mail to Canada. Overseas shipments will be insured when possible but we ship FOB Charlottesville VA USA and cannot guarantee overseas delivery. We combine shipments to cut postal costs.              

     All my items are shipped FOB from Charlottesville, VA, USA,
where they are also available for preview and local pick-up.      

     I don't use packing peanuts - recyclers hate them, and they never decompose.      

      Need more information? Have a want list? Use the Contact Seller link on this page.                       All my auction items are guaranteed to be as described.
Unless one is stated above, there is NO handling or packing charge.
When possible we combine shipping to reduce cost.    
Importers are responsible for meeting their country's import restrictions.         ALL buyers can pay with Paypal or as arranged with seller                
                            Users who ever failed to follow through when high bidder on
ebay are ineligible to bid on this item without prior approval.                              

     Know who you're buying from      

                                        About useraccount2
(I'm also useraccount1)          

         One of ebay's early users. Started here in 1996 using my email address for an ID when that was allowed. Changed to useraccount2 on July 8, 2003.          

         Partly responsible for what's wrong here because my wife and I were in the 2002 Voices 7 ebay focus group that was shown nationwide on PBS and can be seen on youtube -- P6B46gRJ96U          

         Mostly-retired political consultant, consent technician, real estate broker, journalist, educator          

         Buyer & seller of rare recordings as Records For Recollectors since 1963          

         On eBay we sell old records of all types, open reel tapes, art, early radios, my life-long collection of Zenith Trans-Oceanic portables, rare (sometimes very rare) books, US and foreign coins and currency, autographs and photos, rare magazines and ephemera, etc.          

         Quality items at low volume
         We stand behind them 100%
         We pack to professional standards
         We answer email as soon as we see it          

         Two guidelines we use:
         We don't say it's antique unless we believe it is over 99 years old. The only exceptions are motor vehicles, boats, radios, and phonographs which are ruled by a different convention.          

         In a collectibles industry filled with frauds and fools we are never the first and seldom the second. Coins, currency, autographs, photos, and all other collectibles we ever sold are backed with a 100% guarantee of authenticity. That includes the item(s) in this auction.          

We use to sell books at half.com under the alias "Sobriquet" until
         eBay ruined half.com by stealing from the sellers. (Shame on eBay.)          

- Our eBay Sales & Packaging Record -
Is this the only S&P record on ebay?          

         Approx. 1,500 items sold since 1996
         7 returns = 99.994% satisfaction
         3 destroyed by UPS so now we use FedEx & the PO
         1 destroyed by the PO
         1 (reportedly) destroyed within the Russian Federation.
         Lost in transit = 0 (Because we pound them and pound them to FIND IT)          

         Not enough? Google Who is Rey Barry of Charlottesville VA          

         Quodcumque Latine scriptum, altum videtur
         Translation - "Anything in Latin looks impressive"