Sold Date: April 23, 2024
Start Date: October 24, 2023
Final Price: $299.00 (USD)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers / CATCH A FIRE 12" Vinyl 1973 UK Original LP ILPS 9329 first release. 

Pre-Owned. Tested and working well. No inner sleeve. There are a few small scratches on the vinyl that do not interfere with the songs. Only 20,000 produced in zippo design. They then changed to the iconic Bob with splif in hand. The Jacket has light wear and some folding at the edges. The top as separated from the bottom of around the hinge. See photos for details. Sold as is.

Chris Blackwell of Island was so committed to this one that no expense was spared. It swiveled open and was designed to look like a zippo lighter.

The trouble was that it cost a lot – even the hinge had to be costed in. The inner sleeves had to be cut at an angle, then that flame kept getting caught in the lid at the top and bending or breaking before it got out of the shop – no one in Britain used sealed sleeves. Discs behind the counter. Sleeves in the display racks. So … they stopped producing that sleeve and replaced it. Perhaps they feared a Zippo lighter might encourage smoking, so they changed it to this:

Second release was iconic Catch A Fire: Bob Marley & The Wailers, Island 1977 pressing Bob with splif. on the cover.