Beatles ABBEY ROAD 1st UK Press MISALIGNED APPLE No 'Her Majesty' 1 MOTHER EX/VG

	£		142
	$		188

The Beatles ABBEY ROAD 1st UK Press MISALIGNED APPLE SLEEVE No 'Her Majesty', with original inner. EX/EX. 1 MOTHER TO SIDE 2.

Complete and original, with one window black inner, misaligned Apple, ‘cigarette’, visible drain, and no ‘Her Majesty’ to side 2 label, or sleeve.

PLAY TESTED. EXCELLENT AUDIO. ABSOLUTELY NO SKIPS OR JUMPS.

It plays beautifully, minimum excellent throughout, with undistorted audio, clear and punchy sound, with just light minimal surface noise on intros/run-ins, but then gloriously quiet, with the only crackle or pop noticeable on the first 10/20secs of ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and on the run in to ‘Her Majesty’. Beautifully quiet between tracks, even the quieter moments of this superb record are as they should be, and I suspect it’s been very lightly played over the years. Excellent.

Visually, it’s also excellent. Lovely and glossy, and it sits flat on the turntable, and other than a very minor/light mark/scratch to side 1, which is really only fully visible under angled light, I’d describe it as excellent. Side 1 is again, even under angled light, excellent.

PCS 7088 Stereo, September 1969.

Fully laminated cover without flaps on the back side, printed by Garrod & Lofthouse, and of course this first press cover, has the misaligned Apple to the rear, and the first press covers also have a mild green tint.

The pressing also has dark green labels, with the first variant having ‘An EMI Recording’ text on two lines and a small ‘33 1/3’ text to the left side. Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol (p). Of course, the label also omits ‘Her Majesty’ on side 2. The matrix numbers are YEX 749-2 & YEX 750-1.

THE SLEEVE. VG+

The sleeve is in VG+ condition, glossy, with no laminate lifting, and just occasional light creasing. Very minor ringing to front top left and right, but again, really only visible under angled light. There is no spine wear, very little edge wear, is clean to both front and back, has strong sharp top corners, with some minor scuffing/ware to bottom corners, and of course, with the Apple logo clearly and obviously misaligned to the rear.

No ‘Her Majesty’ to side 2 track listing.

LABELS: EXCELLENT ++

Labels to both sides are again superb, with very light/again, barely visible spindle wear to both sides. Excellent. Very slight indent (tiny) to the ‘o’ of ‘Northern’ below ‘She’s So Heavy’

No ‘Her Majesty’ to side 2 label.

ORIGINAL ONE WINDOW BLACK INNER. Good +

Very few copies have survived with an original black inner, but this has. It does though have some creasing and sadly seam splits (repairable with care), and small tare to top right rear. However, it’s free of any other defects, and is an original inner nine the less. Good +

PRESSING INFORMATION.

MOTHER 1 TO SIDE 1.

Side 1:

Matrix: YEX 749-2

Mother: 4

Stamper: TG

Side 2:

Matrix: YEX 750-1

Mother: 1

Stamper: LD

In conclusion, this is a lovely, original first press ‘misaligned Apple’ sleeve copy, with no ‘Her Majesty’ to sleeve or label, with an overall grading of excellent. I do though tend to be quite conservative in my gradings/descriptions, as being a collector myself, I appreciate that accurate and honest grading is paramount. Thus, I retain a 100% positive feedback rating, so rest assured, you can bid with confidence.

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