ORIGINAL CAPITOL RECORDS, SCRANTON, PA 1st US PRESSING
THE BEATLES THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM 1968
1st PRINT EMBOSSED NUMBERED COVER WITH NEW THE BEATLES 2 LP s 30 GREAT SONGS NEON RED DAY-GLO HYPE STICKER
TRUE 1st PRINT APPLE RECORDS LABELS WITH 7 SPELLING ERRORS AND CAPITOL RECORDS LOGO
FOLD-OUT PHOTO COLLAGE LYRICS POSTER, 4 GLOSSY PORTRAIT-STYLE CARD STOCK PHOTOS AND VERY RARE BLANK YELLOW SEPARATOR SHEET
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Original true 1st US pressing of The Beatles 2LP album, also known as the White Album released on November 25, 1968. Capitol Records, Scranton, PA plant pressing with the 1st print Apple Records SWBO-101 1 pressing ring labels containing the Capitol Records logo and all of the 7 spelling misprints: Obladi Oblada A6 Rocky Racoon B5 Bungalow Bill B7 Why Don t We Do It In the Road without the question mark D1 Revolution No. 1 D5 Revolution No. 9 D6 Goodnight D7 . Original 1st print cover that was among the first batch covers containing the numbers beginning with A1380001 to about A2010000 with the leading A prefix preceding the number, which Capitol Records assigned to its Scranton, Pennsylvania pressing plant. The laminated glossy gatefold cover contains the embossed The Beatles banner and A1673462 number in the lower right-hand corner on the front.
The front cover contains the rarest neon red Day-Glo large 2 x 9 hype sticker promoting the new Beatles album. For the most part, the sticker was used by the East Coast distributors who were sure that the presence of additional information on the sticker would stimulate the sales of the album. Unlike the other hype stickers that can be found on the White Album, this sticker doesn t list the song titles. The album comes with a full set of original promotional extra materials and includes a large double-sided 23 x 34 color poster, Four 8 x 10 portrait-style photos and a quite rare blank yellow separator sheet. The thick glossy vinyl pressed by the Capitol Records Scranton, PA pressing plant contains the first matrix numbers in the runout groove including the machine-stamped IAM in a triangle plant identifier: Side 1 - SWBO 1-101-J46 IAM Side 2 - SWBO-2-101-J45 3 IAM Side 3 - SWBO 3-101-J47 IAM Side 4 - SWBO 4 - 101-J44 IAM. The album comes with the original Capitol Records white inner sleeves.
I grade the cover, the full set of memorabilia and the original inner sleeves as Near Mint Minus. The cover is in beautiful condition with the shrink wrap being fully intact without having any splits, tears or missing pieces. The vinyl is graded as Excellent for Side 1, Near Mint Minus for Side 2, Near Mint Minus for Side 3 and Excellent Minus for Side 4. All of the sides of the vinyl retain their beautiful factory gloss with only just a few very light barely visible marks and scuffs from the inner sleeve on Side 1 and 4. The very clean labels are in pristine condition without having any wear, scuffs or spindle marks. The vinyl sounds great only having some very light occasional static which most likely could get reduced or go away if the records are professionally cleaned using a VPI cleaning machine.
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