Beatles White Album UK TRUE 1st Nov 1968 PMC 7067/68 NO "An EMI" OIS 1/1/1/1 EX
£
162
$
215
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
As crazy for Beatles as we are?
Click here
to register with the upcoming ultimate platform of true Beatles Vinyl Collectors.
The Beatles
»The Beatles«
(White Album)
(34 =thirty-four!= detailed HD pictures on bottom of this listing)
U.K. 1968 ~ 1st Press ~ MONO (!)
Dark Green Apple ~ PMC 7067/68
NO "An E.M.I. Recording..."
709/10/11/12 -1/-1/-1/-1
original Black die-cut Inner Sleeves
low number # 87,896 (Grey embossed)
Vinyl in EXCELLENT Condition !!
complete /w While Hamilton Collage & John Kelly color portraits
WorldWide Free Shipping = Free Tracking = Free Insurance = Free Handling
...provided you live on planet earth
(please see shipping exclusions list for regions we don't deliver to at all)
Record Details Origin United Kingdom Release Type Original Release Format Double Album, 12"GateFold Label Dark Green Apple Catalog No PMC 7067/68 Pressing 1st (worldwide) THIS Copy issued November 1968 Issue # 87,896 Sound Mix MONO Overall Grading EX
(please see Details) Matrix Side A XEX 709-1 Matrix Side B XEX 710-1 Matrix Side C XEX 711-1 Matrix Side D XEX 712-1 Stamper Side A (09/03 o'c) OM 5 Stamper Side B (09/03 o'c) OL 7 Stamper Side C (09/03 o'c) H 1 Stamper Side D (09/03 o'c) H 1 Weight Vinyl
Disc 01 168 grams Weight Vinyl
Disc 02 166 grams beabay CID ORWHAMUK0001 (PICS 120, NPID 48) Overview Pressings 1st WW U.K., November 22, 1968, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(WITH "Sold in U.K. subject...", withOUT "An E.M.I. Recording") 2nd November 27-30, 1968, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(WITH "Sold in U.K. subject...", corrected "An E.M.I. Recording") 3rd July'81 thru Mid August'82, PMC 7067/68, Dark Green Apple
(NO "Sold in U.K...." on mid-top of label, WITH "An E.M.I. Recording", Label Variations A & B) 4th September 09, 2009, PMC 7067/68, Y/B Parlophone
2009 REMASTERS MONO Collection NOTE If you're not looged in thru the U.K. eBay site, you can watch all of our OTHER RECORDS here .
We usually have at least 30 plus Beatles records listed, both as an auction and Fixed Price with MakeOffer option.
NOTES
Yes, this is a true first press, NO "An E.M.I. Recording..." on neither label, available in stores allover the United Kingdom for barely a week. Any other label is anything else but a first press. ACKNOWLEDGED, PERIOD & DONE.
Sadly -and we can read this every day, in particular on eBay- many sellers try to trade second for first presses, and they do it with some "creativity" and phrases like "First Press second run..." (???) and similar tales - but there is nothing like this. At its best, these guys don't know what they talk about. However, it certainly serves the purpose of gaining more money. And it leaves the collector with something like a "fake".
Background: In an era, when pressings were shifted from Parlophone to Apple labels, initial mistakes were hardly avoidable. So it was here, when whoever was in charge "forgot" to mention ?An E.M.I. Recording? on any of the White Album's labels, thus constituting a clear copyrights violation. Only five days later, on November 27, 1968, officials corrected that error (most probably unaware of the fact to -by strictly adhering to the rules- just having created a highly sought-after collector's item, namely a "true" first press variation").
(There's also double albums that carry one disc with ?An E.M.I. Recording? credit, the other one without. However, since it is very unlikely that these two discs initially belonged to each other most collectors -at least in our experience- rather avoid such "variations". - Exception: The disc with "An E.M.I..." has stampers like "H 1" -like this copy-, which certainly proves an original and is very rare.)
Other identifiers of first label variations:
- ?33 1/3? text at the top line of the left side
- ?Sold In U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists? text on top of label
- Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol "(p) 1968"
- NO wording "An E.M.I. Recording..." anywhere on any label
- Side A: 709-1 OM 5
- Side B: 710-1 OL 7
- Side C: 711-1 H 1
- Side D: 712-1 H 1
Copy up for auction here is a
- gatefold cover top opener, with its
- original Black die-cut inner sleeves,
- four glossy John Kelly color portraits, and
- While Hamilton collage poster with the lyrics on the back.
And although the sequential numbering of the covers remains somewhat of a mystery, it appears that the first 300,000 numbers were generally held for mono covers, whereas numbers 300.001 thru 399,999 were quite obviously being used for mono and stereo.
(That means that they have both "PMC 7067/8 mono" and "PCS 7067/8 stereo" printed on its spine as well as the word "stereo" on the cover reverse side's upper right corner, no matter whether the discs held within were either mono or stereo.)
As for the United Kingdom, issues # 400,001 to 600,000 were held for stereo. First 400,000 numbers were not used exclusively for mono covers. Numbers from ZERO to 50,000 -and some numbers in the 200,000 to 300,000 range- were (also) used for stereo covers paired with export albums having Parlophone labels. Some later mono covers were printed with numbers over 600,000, perhaps as high as 630,000...
Please keep in mind that this holds true for the UK only and substantially varies over countries of publication worldwide.
This copy comes in a "true" mono cover, hence cover's back side is completely blank, no mentioning of the word "stereo" at the upper right corner (as "mandatory" for numbers with 5 digits or less as described above).
We point this out to avoid a wave of questions in our eBay messages inbox.
You're bidding on a 100% early true first press complete MONO copy of the Fab's White Album.
Last but not least, every collector should bear in mind that numbering in U.K. and Germany were completely independent on each other, regarding both its sequencing and numbers themselves, hence both countries started with "0000001". Moreover, the Germans' pressings were a) the worlwide first, starting to release roughly a month prior to the album's publication in the United Kingdom, and b) came as stereo mixes only. Provided the fact that the worldwide first press, Germany's stereo version, was sold at least 500,000 copies within the first months...
... you have a guess regarding the "real" number of any White Album published outside Germany. That is why we consider one of our German copies -#000364 for instance- a real "under 1,000" album. A thing discussed time and again with other collectors - but that's the good thing with "collecting the Fabs", it's more or less a "science", right?
Please see grading details for a more elaborate description of the record's condition.
SIMULTANEOUS RECORD SALES
Please note that we offer all of our records on different online platforms as well as thru home depot sales simultaneously. We thereby reserve the right to cancel a listing without prior notice and/or justification, namely when a record has been sold and is no longer available.
Visual Grading Cover Front EX- Cover Back EX- Cover Inside EX- Cover Spine VG
(no split) Inner Sleeve Disc One VG+
Black die-cut Inner Sleeve Disc Two VG+
Black die-cut John Kelly color portraits NM While Hamilton collage poster NM Label Side A NM Label Side B NM Label Side C NM Label Side D NM Vinyl Side A EX Vinyl Side B EX Vinyl Side C EX Vinyl Side D EX Audio Grading Side A [N/A] Side B [N/A] We use superb vinyl equipment with its heart being an Ortofon real-diamond system and gold plated contacts all around.
If available, audible checks were performed with an ORTOFON Pro-Ject Audio system connected to a DENON PMA 520-AE amplifier, using a Sennheiser 350 headset. Remarks As for the Cover and related issues, please refer to pictures provided right after, which are legal part of this auction.
We extensively provided photos of the record up for auction, namely 34 HD pictures. - Now, what you see is what you will get. Please note that we did not take photos from collage and portraits, these are all NM.
NOT audio graded. We grade most, but not all of our records audible.
Please keep in mind that an opinion is bound to be subjective. Refer to pictures, provided extensively.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, REGARDING AUDIO, DIFFERENT SYSTEMS PRODUCE DIFFERENT SOUNDS. IN OUR LONG-TERM EXPERIENCE, THIS APPLIES TO ALL KINDS AND TYPES OF AUDIBLE DISTORTIONS, SUCH AS NOISES, CLICKS, POPS, SKIPS, ETC. AUDIO GRADINGS HENCE MAY BE CONSIDERED AN ADD-ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
THUS WHEN MAKING A DECISION TO BUY, PLEASE BASE YOUR EVALUATION ON PHOTOS HEREIN AFTER PROVIDED, AS WELL AS OUR DESCRIPTION OF A RECORD'S APPEARANCE, NAMELY ALL "VISUAL COMPONENTS".
For a short explanation of applied grading, please see remarks on every listing's bottom of page. We are back, and here's some of our Five-Stars history UK, 1st Sgt. Pepper's, complete, STEREO
SOLD on August 13, 2017, to
£145.00 Australia, 1st MONO 1963
SOLD on March 02, 2014, to
£280.00 Germany, 1st EXPORT 1964
SOLD on November 04, 2013, to
£410.00 U.K., 1st "Jobete" 1963
SOLD on December 20, 2013, to
£240.00 Mexico, 1st MUSART 1964
SOLD on February 20, 2014, to
£190.00 U.K., 1st MONO 1968 # 4,406
SOLD on December 15, 2013, to
£1,350.00 DE, WW 1st EXPORT CH
SOLD on August 03, 2014, to
£100.00 FR, 1st Horse Cover 1965
SOLD on August 24, 2014, to
£280.00 U.K., 1st -3N/-3N 1964
SOLD on July 20, 2014, to
£90.00 U.K, 1st STEREO
/w Dick james Credit
SOLD on June 18, 2014, to
£5,580.00 Collectors from these Countries trust us
Pictures (all pictures taken from record on offer using our NIKON D3200 24 MP prior to auction) back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP back to TOP
1st Class Packaging
We are Collectors, hence every record is stored (and will be sent) in a sophisticated way. Many experienced collectors were thrilled by our unique, bullet-proof "packing technicque". Original cover, inner sleeve(s), prospective inserts, and/or whatever may come across, are stored separately. The vinyl sits in a neutral antistatic, padded inner sleeve, which is housed in a stable, neutral cardboard cover. Package is protected by one (or more) transparent plastic sleeves. Finally, all items are being wrapped with thick bubble foil and go to a professional record mailer, which is then being properly sealed with water-resistant tape.
(PLEASE NOTE that pictured record is an EXAMPLE only. It is NOT the item up for auction. Thank you.)
- Grading Every record has been carefully graded visually by ourselves. Most records are audio-graded, too. We grade NM/NM-, EX+/EX/EX-, VG+/VG/VG-.
- Shipping & Handling is FREE, provided you live on planet earth. To us, it doesn't matter where records find a new home, Paris, Tokyo, NYC, Melbourne.
- Dispatch Time We usually prepare shipping immediately upon cleared payment. As a cushion space, however, shipping is guaranteed within 2 business days.
- Shipping Time ...is something that we do not have any influence on, please keep that in mind when applying feedback. As a rule of thumb, times from registering with the carrier until delivery at buyer's home may be as follows: Asia 7 thru 10 days. U.K. one week. U.S. 7 thru 10 days. South America 10 thru 14 days. Europe 4 thru 7 days. Germany 24 thru 48 hours. However, please keep in mind that these times are estimates only and may vary among different carriers.
- Payment is expected within 48 hours after an auction's end, unless arranged differently prior to bidding. We accept PayPal or IBAN (SEPA) bank transfer only.
A Note On Returns / Return Policy
We are two (crazy?) regular average women (Ginger & Fleur Isabell) who love Beatles, thus collecting their records, we're no dealers. We buy vinyl to acquire better copies of what we have already, then selling our second, third, fourth copies. We are classic collectors and hence describe and grade what we sell to our best knowledge, possessing a very high, sophisticated level of knowledge, in particular regarding European records.
If -for whatever reason- our description doesn't turn out to be appropriate, like, for instance, a song skips or jumps, vinyl isn't flat as assured -these types of "error"-, we certainly accept a return (at buyer's expense), for a collector's satisfaction is of utmost importance to us. That certainly happened already. We know that nobody buys a record from us "just for fun". However, as a very basic rule, all of our sales are personal und final.
ALL WE TRY TO AVOID IS TO SEND RARE, VALUABLE VINYL AROUND THE GLOBE "IN VAIN", JUST TO SATISFY A PERSON'S CURIOSITY, FOR EVERY "ROUND-TRIP" IS A HUGE RISK EXPOSING THE RECORD.
price rating
