In this auction: 

 

·       “SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND” LP by the Beatles  

·       This LP is Capitol Records MAS - 2653.

·       This LP was issued June 1, 1967.

·       This is a MONAURAL (MONO) PRESSING.

·       This is a FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS LP. We know this because:

1)   “Subsidiary” is not in the label’s perimeter printing.

2)   The Side 1 label has the shortened song title “A Little Help From My Friends”. (The second Mono pressing has the correct title “With a Little Help From My Friends”.)

3)   First Pressing Covers do NOT credit Maclen Music  or NEMS Enterprises. (Later covers added this information to the lower right corner on the rear of the cover.)

·       The vinyl comes in its properly marked MONO cover (MAS – 2653)

·       The vinyl has a triangle containing the letters IAM in the trail-off vinyl which indicates that this record came from Capitol’s Scranton pressing plant.

·       The COVER is in VERY STRONG VG to WEAK VG+ CONDITION. There is light overall wear. The front cover has some light wear in the blue area at the top of the cover. The red rear cover is VERY NICE and does not show much wear as you can see in the images. (The red rear covers of Sgt. Pepper LPs were often prone to show wear more easily than the front cover.) There are small pushes on the corners at the base of the spine and at the opening. There is also some light to moderate corner wear on the 2 bottom corners. There are NO seam splits and NO flaking on the seams. A name and phone number are written in the upper left corner inside the gatefold cover.    

·       The VINYL is in VERY STRONG VG CONDITION with some very light/slight surface hairlines/scuffs (none of them “feelable”).

·       It comes with its ORIGINAL CUSTOM RED, PINK and WHITE PAPER INNER SLEEVE that has NO SPLITS.

·       It also comes with the ORIGINAL POSTER-BOARD CUT-OUTS INSERT. There is a small light crease under the shoulder stripes and some “aging” and light marks on the white reverse. 

·       The MONO version of this LP, especially FIRST PRESSINGS, has become VERY DESIRABLE and HARD-TO-FIND in DECENT CONDITION. (I once read that John Lennon once remarked that you haven’t really heard Sgt. Pepper as it was intended to sound if you haven’t heard it in the original Mono.)

 

A FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS BEATLES’ LANDMARK LP to add to your vinyl collection.

 

Thanks to the Price Guide for the Beatles American Records by Perry Cox and Frank Daniels for some information about this record.

 

FYI: I use the COVER/SLEEVE GRADES and RECORD GRADES listed and described on page 8 of Perry Cox’s Price Guide for the Beatles American Records. These grades are Poor (Pr), Fair (Fr), Good Minus (G-), Good (G), Good+ (G+), Very Good Minus (VG-), Very Good (VG), Very Good+ (VG+), Near Mint Minus or Very Good++ (NM- or VG++), Near Mint (NM), Mint Minus (M-), and Mint (M or MT) to VISUALLY GRADE this LP, so please know the descriptions of these grades before bidding. Please ask any questions BEFORE bidding. And please check my other auctions for other records you may want to add to your collection. Be high bidder on several and combine shipping on auction items that finish on the same weekend. Winning bidder must remit payment within 5 days of auction close by PayPal. Add $4.00 for shipping to a U.S. address via media mail with tracking.