John Coltrane Giant Steps RARE BLACK LABEL NICE Atlantic lp with sleeve

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314

 Artist: John Coltrane
Title:   Giant Steps
Label:  Atlantic
Mono/Stereo:  Mono
Info:  Very rare early pressing with black label.  Great condition, nearly perfect with only one flaw.  Comes with Atlantic factory inner sleeve in great shape too!

Record condition: NM-/VG+   This album has very little usage and is almost fully NM-, both visually and audibly.  Side 1 has one thin, deep scratch across "Cousin Mary", which makes a ticking sound through nearly the entire track, at times this can barely be heard.  Mostly heard in the background, a little more pronounced during the trio towards the end, but at no point is this heavily dominating, even during the bass solo.  Aside from this one mistake done sometime in the last 55 years, this lp is NM-.   Track 3 starts without noise and the rest of the album looks and plays NM-.  Very unfortunate about the one scratch.

Cover:  NM-   Beautiful!  Clean and crisp!  Tiny wear to the middle of to top seam, otherwise perfect.  This is an incredible set!  If not for the one scratch this would be an archive copy.

Labels: Clean

All albums are cleaned on a VPI 16.5

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Record Grading Scale:

NM THE RECORD IS IMMACULATE, NEARLY PERFECT WITH THE SURFACE RETAINING FULL GLOSS AND NO SURFACE SCRATCHES

NM- THE RECORD SURFACE RETAINS A HIGH GLOSS, PERHAPS ONE OR TWO EXTREMELY FAINT MARKS, STILL EXTREMELY CLEAN 

EX THAT PLACE RIGHT IN BETWEEN VG++ AND NM-

VG++ THE RECORD RETAINS MUCH OF ITS ORIGINAL SHINE, FEW LIGHT SURFACE MARKS AND OR LIGHT SCRATCHES MAY BE NOTED ON FAIRLY CLOSE EXAMINATION

VG+ THE RECORD STILL RETAINS SOME SHINE, SURFACE MARKS & SCRATCHES MAY OCCUR BUT ARE LIMITED AND TEND TO BE MODERATE TO LIGHT.  RECORD WILL PLAY VERY WELL WITH VERY LIGHT SURFACE NOISE MOSTLY HEARD DURING A QUIET PASSAGE.

VG  AVERAGE USED RECORD FROM HEAVY ROTATION, MAY HAVE STARTED TO LOSE ORIGINAL SHINE, SOME OBVIOUS SURFACE MARKS AND/OR SURFACE SCRATCHES WHICH MAY CAUSE SURFACE SOUNDS, ESPECIALLY IN SOFT PASSAGES

VG-  THE RECORD HAS BEEN PLAYED SEVERAL TIMES, THE VINYL MAY APPEAR DULL, MAY HAVE LOTS OF TINY MARKS OR SURFACE SCRATCHES WHICH MAY BE FELT, SURFACE MARKS MAY BE HEAVY AND SURFACE NOISE MAY BE NOTICEABLE THROUGHOUT