Sold Date: December 1, 2024
Start Date: November 21, 2024
Final Price: £127.00 (GBP)
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Serial Number No. 0050789
Believed to be 22th November.1968/First Press release

No EMI on record labels

There are light scratches on the record, but all sides of both LPs play fine without skipping.

Some discolouration to packaging.

Following from Yokono site, note no portraits and posters included in this copy:

Initial numbered edition with top opening G & L gatefold sleeve, black inners, poster & 4 color portraits, dark green Apple labels with ? & "Sold In The UK...." text.

This was released in error omitting the text 'An E.M.I. Recording' on the label, so a second version was promptly released with the corrected labels.

Eric Clapton uncredited on A7 for contractual reasons.

First Press:

Dark green label with an image of an apple on side 1 and sliced apple on side 2.

First label variation have "33 1/3" text at the top line of the left side and "Sold In U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists" text.

Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol (p).

"An E.M.I. Recording" text was not printed on the label.

Matrix numbers:

Side 1: XEX 709-1; Side 2: XEX 710-1; Side 3: XEX 711-1; Side 4: XEX 712-1.

Full laminated white gatefold cover have flaps on the left and right sides of the open gatefold with openings at the top.

The front of the cover has "The BEATLES" embossed in raised block letters.

The stamped seven-digit number appears in gray on a slight downward angle towards the lower right corner.

The back of the mono cover is completely blank. The right panel of the open gatefold has the four John Kelly black and white portraits running left to right (John, Paul, George and Ringo). The left panel has the titles to the album’s songs in gray on 12 row. The records were housed in black inner sleeves with a die-cut circular opening on one side to expose the Apple label. These sleeves were most likely manufactured by Harrison & Sons.