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Postage: UK £4.75 (£1 per extra record). Europe (including Russia) £12.50 (£2 per extra record). Rest of World (including ALL parts of the USA) £16.50 (£3 per extra record). All boxes signed for in quality, safe packaging – I NEVER use mailing envelopes that offer virtually no protection at all, and records WILL arrive damaged in them at some time as most record buyers will already know. Here, you get what you pay for – SAFE PACKING in BOXES using 7mm DOUBLE-WALL STIFFENERS including full side protection and bubble wrap, the records removed from the covers of course. All this very safe packing means I lose money on every box I post, but safe delivery is, and will always be paramount. You WILL see the difference when my packet arrives. Also, I will pay for insurance on any record that sells for over £100 at NO extra cost – that is UK and abroad. Also I aim to post the very same day after payment is received if possible. PLEASE NOTE: I will NOT send any item, no matter what its value without a Royal Mail or courier tracking number. ALL my items must be signed and trackable to comply with Ebay delivery rules. Please do NOT ask me to make any exceptions to this rule as no country offers 100% reliable service without it.

Posting to Russia: Yes, I do post to Russia. But delivery can take longer from the UK. So please be patient. I will submit a tracking number to the winning bidder, and when the packet arrives there it can be followed online using the Russian post website.

ALSO: I now apply the Ebay ‘2-day’ rule for non-payment to keep things moving – cash-flow is important for any small business.

ANY ITEM or ITEMS TO BE PAID WITHIN A MAXIMUM OF 6 DAYS or they will be cancelled – NO EXCEPTIONS.

FINALLY: Late payers, non-payers and ‘0’ bidders will now be blocked or cancelled at my discretion, as will any bidder who cancels a bid. Please only bid on my items if you want them.

Artist or Band: THE BEATLES

Album Title: The Beatles (‘White Album’)

Producer(s): George Martin

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Back in the U.S.S.R.; Dear Prudence; Glass Onion; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; Wild Honey Pie; The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Happiness Is a Warm Gun.

Side 2: Martha My Dear; I’m So Tired; Blackbird; Piggies; Rocky Raccoon; Don’t Pass Me By; Why Don’'t We Do It in the Road?; I Will; Julia.

Side 3: Birthday; Yer Blues; Mother Nature’s Son; Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey; Sexy Sadie; Helter Skelter; Long, Long, Long.

Side 4: Revolution 1; Honey Pie; Savoy Truffle; Cry Baby Cry; Revolution 9; Good Night.

Label/Format: Apple, original dark format with ‘Sold in UK’ text. Side one has the embossed K T tax code, both letters unworn, so-much-so, they are not even that easy to see. The surfaces are matt and very gently textured.

Label Conditions: All clean, fresh and attractive with moderate, but light, quite fine and reasonably faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole areas. Overall, all four sides play clean and impressive.

Catalogue Number: PCS 7067/68

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of Records: 145 / 147 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Like virtually all standard Beatles albums, this sold in considerable numbers – condition is always the paramount factor – and this album is far more difficult to find in better conditions than some.

Original Year of Release: 1968

Matrix Nos: YEX 709-1 / YEX 710-1 / YEX 711-2 / YEX 712-1

Mothers / Stampers: 4 GDP / 2 GGT / 1 GOG / 2 RAG

The Beatles: John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals, acoustic, lead, rhythm and bass guitars, piano, Hammond organ, harmonium, Mellotron, harmonica, drums and assorted percussion, tapes, tape loops and sound effects; Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals, bass, acoustic, lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic and electric pianos, Hammond organ; assorted percussion, drums, recorder; George Harrison – lead, harmony and background vocals, lead, rhythm, acoustic and bass guitars, Hammond organ, drums and assorted percussion, sound effects; Ringo Starr – drums and assorted percussion, piano and sleigh bell, some lead vocals. With: Yoko Ono – backing vocals, lead vocals; Mal Evans – backing vocals, trumpet ; Eric Clapton – lead guitar on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’; Jack Fallon – violin; Pattie Harrison, Jackie Lomax, John McCartney – backing vocals, Maureen Starkey – backing vocals. And including many session musicians.

Brief Info: The ninth Beatles album and their only double album. Now regarded as a masterpiece by many fans, the songs are diverse and varied from quiet softer ballads to heavy rock, satire to avant garde psychedelia. Most fans and collectors will know the album well enough. This is a very fine early stereo copy that was a pleasure to play-grade. That so often not the case, so many got played to destruction on very basic record players and often pressing quality was a factor for an album that quickly mass-produced to meet expected demand. Overall a strong example that I enjoyed considerably.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT: or very close to. A fully laminated gatefold format with the front embossed stamped number of 0591280. This still bold, sharp and unworn. The front title is embossed and the back has the word ‘Stereo’ on the top right. The inside has two flipbacks on the right and left edges, record storage is on the top openings. Printed and made in England by Garrod & Lofthouse International Ltd. Includes the original two black inner sleeves, the large poster and the original, larger format colour photographs of The Beatles.

Lamination – Front & Back: An attractive and generally neat example of this ‘top-loader’ early cover. The only visual blemish is a small, fine scuff on the front left spine edge fold just a fraction below half way. The laminate retains excellent shine, and still quite fresh and clear, the white with minimal darkening and no toning or yellowing for which it it known for and often acquires over time – especially in a smoker’s ownership. The only tiny lifting is around the embossed ‘The BEATLES’ which no example could realistically avoid. As stated, the stamped number is superb, sharp and unworn. Any creasing little, fine and light and virtually all on the edges making the main surfaces attractive with few marks or blemishes. One that has been mostly cover-protected and giving scant clues of its now over 50 years old age.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Again few blemishes at all, generally as per the outside faces. Both flipbacks are superb with no grime formation, neat, crisp and very solid.

Top Edges: These are the two opening storage edges, and both are neat again with any thickening minimal and very light. Later covers had these storage edges on the right sides.

Bottom Edges: Solid, quite straight, flat and flush with full smooth laminate fully intact.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Both closed and in superb very neat condition with ultra smooth and unscuffed laminate fully intact.

Spine and Text: A spine that is well-known to wear badly, these covers were actually quite flimsy and the spine has to bear the weight of the contents. So most will compression and go out of shape, usually the laminate cracks and peels away, often entirely making the surface exposed and making the white go dark and grubby. Well this one has retained most of its laminate, the odd small bit loose. Some mis-shapening with a natural central recess forming that is rarely avoided at best. So very little surface is exposed and avoiding darkening with all the text present and intact. Overall, solid, reasonably straight with some natural compression. However folded square, so the edges still meet up very closely together and near parallel.

Corners: Another area this famous covers wears badly on, but these corners have fared very well with no heavy knocks or dinks. Any tip rubs or laminate chips tiny and very light. Very fine shape generally retained with any creasing tiny and light.

Cover Summary: A strong all-round example of this very fragile 1960’s cover, one that could prove difficult to find much better as an early top-loader original. This attractive, generally very neat item, that only gives polite and gentle clues of its considerable age should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeves: EXCELLENT(–): but I still consider these way better than many (if not most) seen these days. These single circle black inners are ultra fragile and few survive without major edge splits and major tears. They were made with quite soft paper and were unlined, hence few survive with the edges intact as these earlier records were generally thicker and heavier. One has very little creasing at all, the other with just one to a corner area, but relatively mild. One window circle is nigh-on perfect, the other has a couple of very small nicks splits near the 6 o’clock position, the rest as the other. Almost incredibly, all the folds are fully intact with no repairs. Given all the facts, I think my grading is quite conservative.

The Poster: EXCELLENT(++): a large graphic/lyric poster printed both sides by the same manufacturer as the main cover. This has little to fault at all, being clean, fresh and unmounted (e.g. no pin-holes or tape marks). All folds strong and neat, hardly creased with any traces of ageing or toning ultra light and faint. Again, these seldom survive this well.

The Four Portraits: all four cards are the original larger format, later ones were smaller in size. All four backs are white, all fronts are fairly shiny with semi-gloss finish. All FOUR are unmounted (no pin-holes or tape marks) and critically graded.

Lennon: EXCELLENT(+): very mild and few tone spots on the back and odd faint trace on the front white border. No hard creasing, any surface crease traces or blemishes very few, light and faint. This remains very attractive indeed.

McCartney: EXCELLENT(++): the front is superb, virtually as-issued. The back again with the odd gentle toning trace with some mild hint of grubbiness as set-off probably from the black inner sleeve. The crucial front is pretty much near mint with barely even a hint of any creasing at all.

Harrison: EXCELLENT(+): very similar to Lennon with gentle set-off from the inner on the back.

Starr: EXCELLENT(++): the front superb like McCartney, the back similar to Harrison but even better. There is a small colour registration mark on the top right which is perfectly natural within the print colour process.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: NEAR EXCELLENT: a very fine visual pair that is are clean with equally fine shine and very solidly pressed. Surface marks are mostly fine and quite light, a couple do show more but are virtually superficial with just a mere tiny few very faint ticks on Dear Prudence that come and go fast, even these are largely lost in the sound and register very little. Finding a copy of this double set with no tiny blemishes in sound is beyond difficult. This due to pressing quality, the amount it was played and on what. I notice little else to fault and the play-grade prove enjoyable. No deep penetrating stylus scratches as such and no arm drops or ugly marks that blight so many. Viewed in average room light, very few even register. Visually a lovely records that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This legendary double album plays even above it’s high visual grading with little to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. I think this album truly benefits from the stereo mix as all psych albums always will – they rely on channel separation to give the full effect. That said, the mono mix is superb as well and both can be deemed essential. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. I reitterate, any contact sound or clicks are minimal, very few and equally faint and few available copies will outperform this early stereo ‘first’ pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played mostly with care and has been generally well stored within a non-smoking environment. Very little at all – indeed if anything being honest – spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this classic. It could prove difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

I am one of the most established sellers on Ebay, trading since 2001 and offering the finest records I can find. I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible. I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade. I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty all elements of the items I offer for sale. You may notice I only submit records quite sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety – also on higher-end equipment – not just bits to guess a grade – visuals alone do not always tell a true story. I will try to mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector – I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too. Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same – just because an item is rare does not always mean it’s good. I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in near mint condition as the real rare items. All the pictures I use for your guidance are the item being offered with no digital enhancements. Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter. I hope the item below is to your liking – any questions can be emailed and I will do my best to answer you. I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items. Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, major warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary. Thanks for your interest and Good luck – MIKE.

Equipment Used for Play-Grading: I now play-grade ALL the records I offer (unless clearly stated to the contrary) on the following equipment:

Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

PACKING – THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

What You Get: To confirm to the strict Ebay rules on shipping, I must now send ALL my packets ‘Signed-For’ with NO exceptions. Both buyers and sellers want their packets to have a safer journey and this is not a bad thing.

PLEASE NOTE: I now exercise my right to open a dispute after the Ebay rule of TWO days if no payment is received. I will then cancel the dispute to end the bid, again after the mandatory FOUR days and then offer the item to the runner-up or relist. The non-payer will also be blocked from my Ebay site as will any suspicious bids or bid bid retractions. Small businesses need prompt payment to trade and these strict rules WILL be applied.

SHIPPING COSTS & CONDITIONS – THESE comply with EBAY’S RULES - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

Posting & Packing: UK & CHANNEL ISLANDS all now sent via Recorded Delivery:

1 LP (FIRST-CLASS Recorded Delivery with Standard Royal Mail Insurance) [Signed For] = £4.75

1 LP (Special Delivery with Standard £500 Maximum Insurance) [Signed For, Next Day] = £7.50. (this includes insurance of £500). Add £1 per extra LP.

Posting & Packing: EUROPE & SCANDINAVIA. (Airmail Only):

1 LP (Small Packet ‘Signed For’ with Standard Royal Mail Insurance [£50 maximum]) = £12.50 (enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra £3). Add £2 per extra LP.

Posting & Packing: ALL OVERSEAS (non-European) e.g. USA (ANY PART OF); South America; New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Japan and other Far East; (Airmail Only: I NEVER use Surface Mail):

1 LP (Small Packet ‘Signed For’ with Standard Royal Mail Insurance [£50 maximum]) = £16.50 (£17.50 for double sets). Add £3 per extra LP. (enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra £3)

Payment Conditions:

I prefer PayPal or cheque from UK winning bidders. I only accept PayPal from overseas bidders or direct payment into my bank account.

Potential Bidders: I will cancel any bids I feel are time-wasters. A maximum 2 days for communication and 7 days for payment to arrive – if not I will relist the item or offer to the runner-up.

My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund if the item is returned in the same condition is was sent e.g. as per the listing pictures.

SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE

My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks = Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound. Scratch = a needle mark that goes below the record’s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform. Original = a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record. First Pressing = A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record. I do not claim to always know for sure, and that’s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide. I prefer to use terms like ‘Early Copy’ rather than ‘First Pressing’ if I am not totally sure. Surface Sound = Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar. Distortion = Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus – the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so. The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality. Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion. Feathering = Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover. Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive. Set Off, a printer’s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon. e.g. when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area – this is mostly unavoidable or course.