Sold Date: November 10, 2024
Start Date: November 3, 2024
Final Price: $40.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 13
Seller Feedback: 3003
Buyer Feedback: 4772

(Note:  If you win multiple items in a week’s listings, please wait for the end of all of the auctions for me to invoice you, so that you can take advantage of my combined shipping offer.  Thanks!)

READ THIS! These records are NOT sold for perfect sound quality. They’re sold for their scarcity and VISUAL grading. They’ve been in storage for a decade, and they WILL play with surface noise that can be addressed with D4 or a VPI cleaning.  I can’t test-play at the minute. Please don’t bid if this is a problem for you.

So with that said…

Beatles LP 1968 Yellow Submarine Apple First Pressing in Partial Shrink, EX Vinyl!

Vinyl--- EX/EX.  Vinyl would grade NM, had it not been for some cloudiness in the vinyl on both sides.  No scratches, though!

Plates--- B22/ B12.  Thin-cut concentric groove closer to the outer edge of the labels come from Columbia lathes. 

Cover--- EX.  Cover was preserved very well.  Back has some uniform yellowing, but there are no splits to the spine and bottom seam.  Top seam has a small 1/2-inch center split.  There is a very large piece of shrink missing on the front cover.  See photos.

Breathe Holes--- There are two breathe holes on the back cover.  One is to the left of George’s cartoon.  The other is due south in the text, just below the second red line, in the word, “Pepperlanders.”

There may have been another hole on the front cover, where the shrink is missing.

Labels--- EX/EX.  Dark green Apples, boldly-printed title are the first pressing labels.  Each label has high gloss and some light spindle marks, not many.  Bold colors.

Capitol Inner Sleeve--- VG+. Generic white inner sleeve with no die-cut hole for the labels to show.  Has yellowed, but there are NO SPLIT SEAMS.

A generic inner sleeve will be provided, so as not to damage your original Capitol inner sleeve en route.

RIAA: N/A.

This will make a great Christmas present for your Beatles collector, or a keeper to fill in your missing albums in shrink!

As these records have been in storage for many years, they will play back with crackling and tics, however; a good moisturizing and cleaning with either D4 Discwasher or a VPI machine always clears them up.  Thanks!)

Note:  All LP’s ship outside of their album covers in order not to damage the covers during shipment.

CAUTION!  There has been a startling increase in bidders canceling their bids.  A word to the wise, I have started blocking any and all bidders who retract their bids regardless of the reason.

Please don’t bid unless you’re willing to honor your amount, okay? Thanks!

(Please note:  Regarding play-testing, my Technics turntable has somehow seized.  The tone arm is stuck in the up position, and I can’t get it to fully return to its cradle.  Is there anyone out there, who can tell me if this is an easy fix?  Thanks!) 

Check out my other auctions for more hard-to-find vinyl!

Shipping is $5.38 for Media Mail for up to 3 single or double albums, excluding boxed sets within the U.S.  $5.38 covers shipping for up to 5 singles within the U.S., and within the same auction week.

Winners in all other countries will be charged actual shipping to their locations, so please wait to be invoiced.  You will be quoted for the cheapest shipping to your country that the US post office can afford me.  Please let me know if you would prefer to pay for a faster means of shipping, but do NOT ask me to declare packages as gifts, or any other means of defrauding the postal services.  Much appreciated.

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