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BEATLES White Album 1968 UK Mono vinyl 1st Press 0029194 no EMI,+ all inserts

Initial numbered edition with top opening G & L gatefold sleeve, black inners, poster & 4 colour prints, dark green Apple labels with Ⓟ & "Sold In The UK...." text.This was released in error omitting the text 'E.M.I. Recording' on the label, so a second version The Beatles was promptly released with the corrected labels.

Eric Clapton uncredited on A7 for contractual reasons.

℗ 1968© All lyrics copyright 1968 for the world by Northern Songs Ltd. England© Apple Records

Runouts are stamped.

ref - www.discogs.com/release/456663-The-Beatles-The-Beatles

Details for this item:

The Gatefold Sleeve: - original Garrod & Lofthouse fully laminated and top loading gatefold sleeve with embossed "The BEATLES" text on the front side and numbered "0029194". There is the occasional very light mark on the outside of the gatefold, edges are solid only light scuffing , some light fraying on the top edges. The spine remains rigid with all spine text readable, some of the laminate has lifted.

The condition of the interior of the gatefold is excellent

The Inner Sleeve(s): - 2 original black inner sleeves which have a few tears, edge fraying, and seam splits, as they do! One is torn in the centre

Vinyl housed in replacement inners to protect them

The Labels: - a number of light spindle trails around centre hole on each, all black text upon the dark green Apple background remaining intact, no writing; and the omission of the "An EMI Recording" text on each label - a true indicator of a very 1st pressing (see ref above)

The Lyric Poster and 4 Portraits: - Poster is in very great condition, a few very small handling marks, and the folds nicely intact

The four photos are in great condition with no creasing or tears, nice sheen

The Vinyl: - All 4 sides have many hairlines and surface scuffs, squiggly scratches . They look worse than they play…; plays with no jumps , just has lots of crackle in the run ins, and some clicks and the odd pop etc. here and there probably a G+

The Overall Listening Experience:

Side one: - crackle between tracks and on run-ins, the music comes across well, though nice mono sound

Side Two: - same as side one, accept for there are more clicks than one in quieter bits

Side Three: - again, crackle in the quiet bits, the loud powerful bits sound good though !

Side Four: - Starts off very crackly, a fair bit of background noise, gets better as it plays

overall they are still listenable LPs with a great sleeve , low numbered and accompaniments and original inners