COLUMBIA BOX AND SLEEVE NOTES FOR COMPLETE BEETHOVEN KLEMPERER 'SAX'-SERIES

	£		34
	$		45

I have been an EBayer for some years but, for the past couple of years I have only listed a limited number of items. As a collector, I concentrate on accumulating vinyl however, I occasionally enjoy dipping my toes into the sellers’ market, generally to raise funds for yet more of my own purchases !!

This offering is approximately 100 recordings, and amounts to the most serious collection I have ever listed. I advise you to re-visit my listing each day, as there will be some high-value, serious classical vinyl every day, with ultra-low starting prices and no reserve. Highlights are :-

o   The complete Klemperer Beethoven series on 1st Edition Columbia SAX

o   A substantial number of Decca SXL, HMV ASD 3-digit, HMV Angel Series and RCA SB-Series 1st Editions

o   Some serious violin recordings including Ida Haendel, Mullova, Chung and Milstein

o   Some seriously rare, vintage and/or more obscure releases on ‘lesser’ labels

o   A number of very old mono recordings  featuring Furtwangler, Geiseking, Lipatti, Monteux and Cantelli.

·         My feedback confirms that I am a reliable and honest seller, offering highly collectable and accurately described classical vinyl.

·         I guarantee an unequivocal returns policy.

·         I keep the descriptions simple, with my three categories being Near Mint / Excellent / Very Good+. All flaws will be individually described, leading to buyer confidence.

·         I always list the individual weights of each recording, in order that buyers can check and control their postage rates. I encourage buyers to purchase more than one item, in order to combine and thereby save on postage.

·         Every record is placed in a new outer plastic sleeve, a new replacement inner sleeve (if required) and packaged in a custom-built transport sleeve with a minimum of two stiffeneRD

To be listed over the next week is the Complete Klemperer Beethoven Symphony Series on Columbia "SAX". All are blue/silver first editions, and at the conclusion of the last recording, I will be listing EMI Columbia's Box and accompanying notes, released to commemorate the release of the full collection.  All sleeves are basically as new, bar one (only imperfection is the loss of the EMI gold "stereophonic" sticker on the front). The theory is that the original collector kept the recordings in the Box, leaving the sleeves in perfect condition.

I have decided to sell the recordings separately, and the box as an extra for the modern collector, in possesion of the full set -(from myself or other sources !?) The recordings will be listed in chronological (ie- rising Serial No order).

This is the box, (please note - ONLY the box and notes on this particular listing - NO vinyl !) produced by EMI's Columbia Label, to commemorate and contain the complete Beethoven Symphony series, on the Columbia SAX Series. 

OTTO KLEMPERER conducts The Philharmonia Orchestra. Contained on Columbia recordings :-

SAX 2318 / 2331 / 2364 / 2354 / 2373 / 2260 / 2415 / 2318 / 2276-7 ... all now listed separately on my other items.

The box is entitled "THE NINE BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES .... KLEMPERER .... PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA"

The 27-page companion notes include a foreword from both Otto and Lotte Klemperer, together with Ernest Newman.

It concludes with the complete Klemperer / Columbia discography, up to June 1962. 

Box condition ......  Excellent (physically immaculate, some age-staining) 

Notes condition ...  Excellent (lightly creased from average useage)

Item weight (incl. Packaging) ... 800 grams

Full refund guaranteed if item not as described.

Postage ... U.K. £3.50 ... Europe £5.75 (Air) ... Rest of World £10.25 (Air)

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PLEASE MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN 3 DAYS OF YOUR WINNING BID. NEGATIVE FEEDBACK WILL BE POSTED FOR PERSONS NOT PAYING WITHIN THIS TIME !! 

IF YOU ARE COMPILING A "COLLECTION" TO SAVE ON POSTAGE... SIMPLY CONTACT ME TO NOTIFY YOUR INTENTIONS... I  WILL NOT MAKE SUCH AN ASSUMPTION WITHOUT THE WINNING BIDDER NOTIFYING ME.