Pressing Release Information: First pressing. March 22, 1963. The first pressing has black label with gold print and Parlophone Co. Ltd. printed at the start perimeter print. Dick James Mus. Co incorrect publishing credit for I Saw Her Standing There , Misery , Do You Want To Know A Secret There s A Place . With or without tax code and with 33 1/3 on the label. Tax code variations: ZT, MT, ZMT. Polythene-lined Use Emitex die-cut inner sleeve. Matrix numbers: Side 1: XEX 421-1N Side 2: XEX 422-1N.
Condition Vinyl: THE VINYL IT SELF HAS A NICE SHEEN TO IT BUT DOES SUFFER WITH A FEW LIGHT SURFACE MARKS AND SOME MORE PRONOUNCED SCRATCHES WHICH I HAVE TRIED TO SHOW IN PICS.
Condition Labels: THE LABELS ALSO SHOW SOME SCUFFING ON THE LOGO AND ROUND THE SPINDLE HOLE.
Condition Sleeve: THE Original sleeve is the correct version, much rarer one with Angus Bean Photo credit far right at the bottom front of the cover. SLEEVE HAS WEAR TO CORNERS DAMAGE TO REAR AND ALSO HAS WRITING ON REAR.
Condition Inner: COMES IN ORIGINAL PAPER SLEEVE ADVERTISING THE EMITEX CLEANING CLOTH
BLACK AND GOLD LABEL THESE WERE ONLY ISSUED THROUGH THE FIRST 8 WEEKS THEN THE LABEL CHANGED TO THE MORE FAMILIAR YELLOW AND BLACK STYLE
Play tested: Side 1: Very nice sounding. Odd crackle, pop. No skips or jumps. Side 2: Some crackle and pop, odd tick. No skips or jumps again.
GENERAL INFORMATION APPLICABLE TO ALL MY LISTINGS:
See pictures for condition of the sleeve, record s and labels.
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Record comes in a clear polythene sleeve. The disk is in a brand new anti-static inner sleeve. The original inner is included too. or at least the inner that came with the record when we acquired it - it may not be the original .
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Record s has not been play tested UNLESS specifically mentioned above.
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Sold with NO RESERVE, LOW START PRICE. BID NOW TO GRAB A BARGAIN.
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PLEASE NOTE - COMBINED SHIPPING: I have now got no control over this as eBay now handles all the shipping labels, via it s Simple Delivery which is forced upon all my record listings. This is something I have no control over.
For overseas, the shipping charge is out of my control and is handled by eBay s Global Shipping Program.
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All the Beatles items I am selling were catalogued by a family member who documented all the collection in a spreadsheet and the description above is from this original catalogue description, with any additional information we can add. If you think I have mis-described an item, please let me know and I will update the listing.
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This is from a huge personal family collection of Beatles items which I will be listing and selling over the coming days, weeks, months, years.
There is literally over 1,700 individual items in this collection, which has been assembled since the early 1960 s, up until a few years ago.
There are records, albums, singles, EP s. UK and overseas releases, Whole collections bought as is and some will be sold that way Tapes, reel to reel, cassettes, 8-tracks, books, Films, DVDs, VHS, Toys, collectables, magazines. Pictures, photos, scrap books and more
Lots of copies of Red parlophone Love me Do and Please Please Me . Fan Club Flexi-discs, Picture discs.
Lots of solo lps and singles.
There are Mono and a Stereo Black/Gold 1st Press copies of Please Please Me Album. The Stereo version is superb and highly sought after. There are also some rare 2nd and 3rd Pressings.
There are also some fabulous condition examples of all of the other original UK albums.
It is going to take us years to identify, list and sell all of this
