21. THE IDLE RACE, ORIGINAL 1st UK PRESS LP, SUPERB CONDITION UK PSYCH, RARE

	£		74
	$		98

Description

the idle race, blue liberty 1st original uk pressing, textured sleeve. monstrously competent british pop psych confection with infectious music box lysergipop tunes written and performed by utter pros. they went on to become elp, elo, nsu, gbh, or abba.
grading is - cover / disc
ex-/ vg++ lovely condition with 2 or 3 visible surface marks that shoukdnt be audible, it gets the ex minus due to a line noticed at the edge of the front cover that is almost invisible from the front but seems to show that something straight and thin pressed on the inside sleeve, id be inclined to reinforce the area inside the sleeve (3cm and possibly happened during printing or manufacture) and i stress theres no loss to the print surface and otherwise this cover is absolutely lovely with no ring wear. its a thin card cover with a very fine textured finish thats usually wrecked, this isnt, it looks superb. the spine is a bit worn and flattened, again if you know this original lp, the spine was flattened about 3 nanoseconds after it left the shop on every copy, its totally fragile like the Fuschia lp cover, very similar thin textured sleeve destined to fall to bits, (eg 90% of fuschia covers have ring wear). so im being harsh on the grading and pointing out the minor flaws, whereas when you look at this on the front and back it is lovely. 

ive listed around 60 rare progressive, psych, folk and blues lps on ebay in a big clear out, please click other items if interested to see them all. they are all getting harder to find as the years go by, and prices and demand seems to have gone stratospheric.
all are 1st pressings, original uk editions.
all lps are placed in period/vintage plain paper inner sleeves. any generic polylined inner sleeves have been discarded as they are unsafe and damage lps, as per the policy of many serious collectors.  old pvc lined inners are ageing, chemically unstable,  and sticking to lps, paper inners are the only currently known way to avoid it. vertigo inners are retained and sent outside the covers to avoid damaging contact.
most photos show the fronts, backs, spine and labels so cover condition is fully visible in the photos.
lps listed include sam apple pie, hungry wolf, gerry lockran, mike westbrook love songs, shape of the rain, cressida, idle race, five day week straw people, dransfield, fuschia, rockin horse, gentle giant, and the now very rare aubrey small lp with insert.
grading is mainly visual, all the lps have been fully or partly tested mainly on the run in and first tracks, and any visible defects have been played through to see if theres any audible results.
tested on lenco/cyrus/tannoy 60s/70s equipment.
everything starts at 99p and theres no reserve prices!
POSTAGE - £5 for anywhere in europe and uk. if you bid from usa, japan, australia please wait for an invoice.
postage will be combined and reduced significantly for multiple wins, just wait for an invoice, if ebayers win a few lps postage will be free.

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