KEVIN AYERS As Close As You Think 1986 UK ILLUMINATED AMA 25 SOFT MACHINE N.MINT

	£		48
	$		64

KEVIN AYERS

RARE UK ONE-OFF PRESSING IN SUPERB CONDITION

AS CLOSE AS YOU THINK

125g 12" black vinyl with first pressing A1 B1 matrix number endings; white printed black paper labels; and uncredited outer sleeve

VINYL & SLEEVE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION

KEVIN AYERS vocals and guitar OLLIE HALSALL guitars and vocals POLI PALMER Fairlight programming PAT CRUMLY saxophone and flute 

Original 1986 UK 12" album release ILLUMINATED (AMA 25) STEREO 33.3rpm

Please see the photograph above and feel free to contact me if you have a question that is not answered below.

CONDITION:

VINYL & SLEEVE NEAR MINT The vinyl is clean and bright with no obvious signs of play and superb sound reproduction throughout. The labels are clean and unmarked. The white inner sleeve is clean with light creases. The outer sleeve shows only minimal signs of handling. SUPERB ALL ROUND.

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ABOUT THIS ITEM:

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PAYMENT WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED IN UK STERLING. PayPal is my preferred method of payment. I am happy to accept most credit or debit cards (sorry, not American Express) or UK sterling Postal or Money Orders. I DO NOT ACCEPT CHEQUES and can only accept cash on collection.

If your cleared payment is received before 16.00 UK time Monday to Friday I will endeavour to dispatch your item on that same day. Items paid for after 16.00 will be posted within 24 hours, with weekend and Bank Holiday purchases dispatched on the next working week day.

Certificates Of Posting are obtained for all dispatches, without exception, and copies can be emailed to buyers as proof of postage if requested.

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POSTAGE & PACKING DETAILS:

This item and its protective cardboard packaging weighs under 500g. The post and packing charges are:

Items selling for under £50:

UK - Royal Mail 1st Class Small Parcel - FREE

UK INSURED OPTION: UK - Royal Mail Signed For 1st Class Small Parcel - £4.90

UK EXPRESS OPTION - Royal Mail 1pm Special Delivery - £7.75

Europe - Airmail - £5.75

Worldwide (Zone 1)* - Airmail - £8.00

Australia & New Zealand (Zone 2) - Airmail - £8.35

*Please click on the Postage & Payments tab for my excluded worldwide postal destinations.

P&P prices include both the Royal Mail fee and £0.80 towards my packaging costs.

This record will be sent in a new plastic sleeve and will be carefully packed WITH TWO CARDBOARD STIFFENERS and posted in strong, good quality cardboard packaging. Please try to recycle the packing cardboard if possible - it might just help to offset the damage done when it was originally manufactured. Alternatively, throw it away and set fire to a couple of old tyres.

I CAN ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ITEMS THAT MAY BE LOST OR DAMAGED IN THE POST

I always strongly recommend that you select the insured option for postage irrespective of the value of the contents. Naturally, I will happily provide buyers with any necessary paperwork in the event of them having to make a claim against Royal Mail, but if you do not select the insured option, and your parcel is damaged or goes missing in the post, then you will not be entitled to any compensation, it's that simple.

METHODS OF POSTING

PACKETS UNDER £50

UK buyers - Royal Mail 1st Class service (no insurance)

UK buyers - Royal Mail Signed For 1st Class service (insured option) 

Overseas buyers - Standard Airmail (Small Packets) service (no insurance)

Overseas buyers - see below for insured option

PACKETS £50 - £500

UK buyers - Special Delivery Next Day (1pm) service (inc. insurance)

Overseas buyers - Royal Mail International Signed For (Small Packets) service (inc. insurance)

PACKETS OVER £500

I will contact you to see if you wish to use a courier service.

NO EXCEPTIONS!

Please do not ask me to send expensive items by the cheapest service available as I will not do so. Bitter experience has taught me that it is a nightmare to resolve to everyone's satisfaction if the postal service lets us down.

ABOUT ME:

If you haven't done business with me before my name is ANDY HIBBERD. I am based in England and own a real, old-fashioned record shop called 101 COLLECTORS RECORDS in Farnham, on the Surrey/Hampshire borders, about one hour out of central London.

I am proud to be a TOP RATED EBAY SELLER with a 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK HISTORY and over 1,575 SATISFIED ONLINE CUSTOMERS.

I deal in old and collectable records, CDs, DVDs and music memorabilia in most genres, as well as new vinyl and CD releases and re-issues. 95% of my business is done in the shop, with my eBay sales offering just a, hopefully tantalising, taste of my overall stock. Please feel free to get in touch if you need any further information about this item, if you have any questions about what's currently in stock, or if you need any advice about selling a collection.

I can be contacted on 01252 734409 between 10am - 5.30pm Monday to Saturday.

I am always happy to receive your Wants Lists, but I sometimes file them carefully under bits of paper, which are in turn under slightly larger pieces of paper, that aren't always where I thought I had left them. This could be blamed on incompetence on my part, but I prefer to blame it on the pixies that clearly infest my shop and move things about after I have gone home, the little bastards. However, I will do my very best to find what you want a) immediately, b) the day after you have found it elsewhere, or c) about a year after you have quite frankly lost the will to live.

That said, I do appreciate your interest in this listing. If you are thinking of bidding, please make sure that you have read the description and P&P costs carefully, and take the time to look at my Returns Policy. Also, please check out my Feedback comments and past sales - I am not an anonymous internet seller but a responsible (pixies permitting) and contactable UK record dealer.

Thank you.

Andy

101 COLLECTORS RECORDS

101 West Street, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7EN, UK 

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