Beatles Anthology 1st ed. NM: COMPLETE 9-LP SET

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Each Anthology volume is preserved in plastic sleeves. No shrink wrap; Never played. None of vinyl has been out of original dust sleeves. Each album is as-is from original time of purchase, including some distress on lp sleeve corners, presumably from original shipping or overstuffed store display cases.

Shop Talk with 490west:

eBay: Why sell all three Anthology volumes together?

490west: From a selling point, it's unique and really seems like the ideal way to part with these three compilations for the collector who wishes to create this fantastic tableau without all the fuss:

"The three album covers, when laid side-by-side, become one long painted collage of various peeling posters and album covers representing the different stages of the Beatles' career (see image). This was the work of Klaus Voormann, who also created the album cover for Revolver in 1966.

The Anthology covers required Voormann to recreate elements of his cover for Revolver within the collage. During the music video for "Free as a Bird", the Anthology collage appears as posters on a shop window as the camera pans quickly across the street. The design also adorned the VHS, laserdisc and DVD releases, again to be properly encountered by laying the cases side-by-side. Upon the release of Anthology 3, HMV stores made available a limited edition cardboard sleeve designed to hold all three CD volumes of which each side of the sleeve make up half of the collage." - wikipedia

I recently had great success in selling Macca's Fireman LP collection as a full, three-album set. The bidding war was enthusiastic, and I believe this will also be a great aquisition.

eBay: Interesting. Anything else you'd care to add?

490west: Yes. For anyone interested, I also plan to list promotional Anthology CUBES similar to the aformentioned cardboard sleeves, designed to promote the original VHS release. 

eBay: Nice to finally have you selling with us. Good luck to you, 490.

490west: Cheers!

MORE ON THE ANTHOLOGY ALBUM SERIES:

To accompany the Anthology series, three albums were issued, each containing two CDs or three vinyl LPs of mostly never-before-released Beatles material (the exceptions being the Tony Sheridan-era material), although many of the tracks had appeared on bootlegs for many years prior.

Two days after the first television special in the series had aired, Anthology 1 was released to stores, and included music recorded by the Quarrymen, the famous Decca Records audition tapes, and various out-takes and demos from the band's first four albums. It also included the song "Lend Me Your Comb", omitted from the collection Live at the BBC, released the previous year (1994). The song "Free as a Bird" was included at the very start. 450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold in its first day of release, the most sales for an album in a single day ever. The band's first drummer Pete Best, replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962 before the Beatles recorded professionally for EMI, received his first substantial Beatles royalties from this album, for the inclusion of early demo tracks on which he played.

Anthology 2 was released on 17 March 1996. The second collection presented out-takes and demos from the Beatles' sessions for Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Magical Mystery Tour. These included selected early demos and takes for Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever", previously available only to bootleg collectors. The new song "Real Love" — which, like "Free as a Bird", was based on an unfinished Lennon recording — was also included in the two-CD collection.

Anthology 3 was released on 28 October 1996. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be as well as several songs from Harrison and McCartney which later became post-Beatle tracks.