ALICE COOPER *NEAR MINT* UK 1st BILLION DOLLAR BABIES

	£		100
	$		133

Simply Stunning **Near Mint** UK 1973 UK Green Label Warner 1st Pressing (A1//B2 Matrix) 'Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper! Simply wonderful Throughout & Complete With Original Die-Cut Embossed Gatefold Sleeve w/ Inner Band & Die Cut Window, Original Die-Cut Picture/Lyric Inner Sleeve, All 10 Photo Cards, Uand Massive Folded Dollar Bill Poster!! All In Stunning **Near Mint** Condition!!!

From my own pristine Nr Mint collection of rare 1960's & 70's Prog/Psych/Rock & Folk, you are bidding on a beautiful ORIGINAL 1973 Earliest Possible (A1//B2) UK 1st Pressing of Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper!!! And this is in wonderful condition only faint hairlines visible played with care long ago really excllent +** copy of this rare UK green label 1st pressing . The  UK first pressing of this record is amazing, this really is an example of a 1st pressing that really gave you something extra when compared to all later pressings. It is full of intricate features and fantastic touches, housing amazing artwork and gimmix designs that were far too costly on production to be included in any of the later pressings. Only the earliest first pressings contained all the features I am about to describe. cover near mint stored away in collection from long ago.

Starting with the gatefold sleeve, only this, the 1st pressing, had the embossed outer cover with rounded corners. It has an embossed gold coin on both sides of the outer cover and the two opening edge corners are rounded off. All later sleeves did not have the embossed coin and had regular square corners. When you open up the sleeve there are many more significant differences between this and all later pressings. Firstly, on the left side you will notice the die cut window with the dollar bill background. This was designed for the picture inner sleeve to slide into, framing the either the lyrics of the picture of Cooper and band.

All later pressings do not have this window or the picture/lyric inner sleeve. The right side of the inner gatefold also has a wide strip of card which is designed to hold the large folded dollar bill poster in place. All later pressings do not have this strip or the dollar bill poster! Next up we have the 10 photo cards. All later pressings did not contain these cards, they just had printed photos on the left-sided gatefold of the cards and the coin. With the first pressing you actually got all ten cards  There are many more subtle features such as relocation of credits etc. (for example, only the 1st pressing has a totally credit-free outer gatefold cover. This was because there was so many additional featured on which the place the credits, thus maintaining the aesthetics of the original sleeve. All later pressing however, have the Warner credits etc printed on the back of the sleeve). I think I've left you all with enough to contemplate here - but there are many other subtle differences so if there is any more information you require just let me know and I'll be only too happy to help!

Basically, you got so much more with this 1st press than you do with all later pressings, and due to the actual production costs it was only around for a very limited time (only the earliest 1973 UK 1st pressings had these details) before being replaced with the standard no frills 2nd pressings.

A nice item to add to any Alice Cooper collection WELL WORTH BUYING WHEN YOU CAN .  PLEASE SEE MY OTHER GREAT Alice ITEMS ON EBAY.

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