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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: YES

Album Title: Close to the Edge

Producer(s): Eddy Offord and Yes

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Close to the Edge – I. The Solid Time of Change, II. Total Mass Retain, III. I Get Up, I Get Down, IV. Seasons of Man.

Side 2: And You and I – I. Cord of Life, II. Eclipse, II. The Preacher, the Teacher, IV. The Apocalypse; Siberian Khatru.

Label/Format: Atlantic with matt, very gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both clean, still fresh and attractive with only light, mostly fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area. Only very slight dulling traces seen under light.

Catalogue Number: K 50012

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 this Record: 138 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Moderate, fully textured covers are seen less often.

Original Year of Release: 1972

Matrix Nos: K 50012 A3 / K 50012 B2 [machine punches, not that clear on side two]

Musicians: Jon Anderson – lead vocals; Steve Howe – guitar, electric sitar, backing vocals; Chris Squire – bass, backing vocals; Rick Wakeman – keyboards; Bill Bruford – drums, percussion.

Brief Info: Album number five for Yes that many consider to be their very best. A band now at the height of their powers and popularity. The album sold well peaking at 3 in the United States and 4 in the UK. It was the last to feature drummer Bill Bruford who left to join King Crimson. Featuring just three long songs – side one occupied entirely with the title song that remains as one of the band’s finest ever songs. This a fine early copy with the rarer fully textured cover, the complex record plays impressively and appears little used.

Cover Grade and Format: NEAR EXCELLENT: an unlaminated gatefold format with matt and fully textured surfaces. Printed and made in England, uncredited, includes the green lyric inner sleeve.

Cover Front: Yes, another very wear-prone matt cover that is rarely seen without often significant rubbing and deep penetrating ring wear. Another gem by the graphic artist Roger Dean – his covers are highly collectable in their own right. The textured surfaces and deep colour very intolerant of even average care and poor storage. This is very fine looking front with any rubbing only light close to the edges (sorry about that). There is a very small sticker mark near the top left corner that has been ‘improved’ and shows little. That apart, the surface is impressive given all the facts and has suffered barely any creases at all. The pastel like colour is deep and fresh and the actual graphic text is little short of perfect.

Cover Back: Gentle rim arc rubbing and a little light rubbing near the top of the right edge. This side especially is the most prone to ring wear that is often full-circle, deep and ugly, so I feel this one has fared well overall.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Another fantastic picture scape by the brilliant Roger Dean that became well-known for his Yes covers. This surface also textured and looking magnificent as seen in my picture, this has a slightly different colour hue to the smooth version.

Top Edges: Both straight and flush with minimal traces of wear up to the tips that have only small rubs.

Bottom Edges: Only quite light patchy rubbing, mostly on the back edge, then as above. For coloured storaged edges these fared quite well. More often seen totally white and threadbare.

Right Edge(s), and Type: The inner front has lightly thickened, this very slightly proud of the back. The inner back and front edges are still neat and sharp, the closed front is factory machine cut.

Spine and Text: An impressive spine, solid, straight with minimal compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. The surface appearing hardly worn, the odd tiny tip-in improvement likely, and I do emphasise ‘tiny’. The fine white text is unworn, clear and easy to read as-seen.

Corners: Light to moderate (bottom right) tip rubs very fine shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A strong all-round example of this unforgiving and quite fragile 1970’s cover, one that could prove difficult to find much better – the fully textured one especially. This attractive item should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: NEAR EXCELLENT: this as fragile as the main cover with its deep green surfaces that are immenstely prone to ring wear. An unlined paper inner with a side recessed opening for storage. This has a little creasing to one corner and a little rubbing to the edge opposite the opening one, but only modestly small. The lack of ring wear is unusually good news, and even more so is the lack of edge splits which are all naturally intact. Unfaded and still quite fresh, an inner that will also prove quite difficult to find better, and certainly intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT: and arguably better. A very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface marks few, very light and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super record 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 progressive rock classic 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. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed – this on a highly complex recording with some typically quiet passages, deep organ and intricate instrumentation – the opening of the title song perilous and intolerant of heavy-handed stylus placement. Quiet birdsong and fine grooves often means this introduction is scratched and ruined. This is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises – the ruthless and uncompromising church organ without distortion of breakup that so many either acquire or suffer from with less than satisfactory pressings. Fans of this album will already know all this for sure. Few available copies will outperform this early pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been quite well stored and handled, almost certainly in a non-smoking environment. Nothing of any note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record, the odd contact blemish or trace being nigh-on impossible to avoid totally. 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.