DR STRANGELY STRANGE Heavy Petting LP 1970 VERTIGO 1st Press PERFECT TREES

	£		891
	$		1,181

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Dr Strangely Strange called "Heavy Petting" and is an ORIGINAL 1970 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press LARGE 'Spiral' Vertigo label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  IT IS ONE OF THE RAREST LPS EVER RELEASED ON THE VERTIGO LABEL - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1970 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED - IT ONLY EVER SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS, AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED!!!!  AS A RESULT, IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  THIS LP IS MADE EVEN RARER STILL - AS IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - WITH A 'LARGE' SPIRAL ON THE LABELS (LATER ONES DONT!) - AND IS IN ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC CONDITION!!!!

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER - I HAVE FOUND A 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP WITH 100% PERFECT 'DIE-CUTS'!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  THIS LP IS ONE OF THE MOST FRAGILE COVERS EVER MADE.  NOT ONLY DOES IT HAVE 2 FOLD OUT FLAPS, BUT IT ALSO HAS SOME 'DIE-CUT' TREES WHICH ALSO FOLD-OUT ON EITHER SIDE OF THE COVER FRONT!!!!  NATURALLY (AS MOST PEOPLE HADNT EVEN HEARD OF 'PLASTIC SLEEVES' IN 1970!) - MOST COPIES BECOME RIPPED AND TORN FROM BEING SLID IN AND OUT OF RECORD RACKS OVER THE YEARS.  OR THEY WERE TREATED BADLY - AND COVERS WERE QUICKLY DESTROYED.  BUT NOT THIS ONE!!!!  FOR NOT ONLY DOES THIS COVER HAVE NO RIPS AND NO TEARS AT ALL - BUT THE 'DIE-CUTS' EVEN LOOK PERFECT!!!!  BASICALLY THEY LOOK AS IF THEY LEFT THE FACTORY YESTERDAY!!!!  THERE IS NO RIPS, NO TEARS, NO CATCH MARK, AND THERE IS EVEN NO 'BURRING' AT ALL!!!!  THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE BEST CONDITIONED COVER I HAVE EVER SEEN FOR THIS LP - AND THE CHANCES OF EVER FINDING ANOTHER ONE LIKE THIS AGAIN, IS VIRTUALLY ZERO!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN ABSOLUTELY SUPERB CONDITION - AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1970 UK 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS LARGE 'SPIRAL' VERTIGO LABEL, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 1/1 MATRIX ENDINGS, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS VERTIGO INNER SLEEVE, AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'DIE-CUT' GATEFOLD 'FOLD-OUT' COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL UK Vertigo 1st Pressing from 1970 and is in AWESOME condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is 6360 009 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press LARGE 'Spiral' Vertigo Label (see picture) and is a UK 1970 Stereo 1st pressing (there were NO Monos)!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  The vinyl is in absolutely SUPERB condition!!!!  Most of these 60s/70s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, NO hairlines, NO scufflines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND LOOKS SUPERB!!!!  It is great to find that the record plays almost as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO pops, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some EXTREMELY low level background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Excellent+ if not better!!!!  SUPERB RECORD!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!   The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press Vertigo Inner Sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition - and is still FULLY 'poly lined'!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st Press 'Die-Cut' Gatefold 'Fold-Out' Cover is in absolutely SUPERB condition - and is almost NEVER seen like this!!!!  And incredibly for once this cover has NO TEARS AT ALL!!!!  And even rarer still - not only does this cover have NO tears AT ALL, but AMAZINGLY all of the 'die-cut' sections, the 'fold-out' flaps, AND the shaped 'tree' sections are in PERFECT condition - with NO bumps, NO knocks, NO dings, NO burring, and a PERFECT shape!!!!  I have taken REALLY close up pictures of the 'shaped' sections - to show exactly how SUPERB this cover really is!!!!  This cover is hard enough to find with NO tears - and probably only 1 in 30 or 40 copies have NO tears AT ALL.  But to find one with PERFECT shapes to the fold-outs and NO bumps AT ALL????  It is almost UNHEARD OF!!!!  Probably only 1 in every 100 copies have shaped sections as SUPERB as this cover has!!!!  And the rest of the cover is equally as SUPERB as the 'shaped' sections!!!!  The cover has NO splits, NO edge wear AT ALL to the bottom holding edge (PERFECT black colour & flat & straight!), NO spinal wear (BOTH spines look SUPERB - with PERFECT colouration!), NO sticker marks, barely ANY creases AT ALL (cover is VERY flat looking indeed!), NO ringwear, NO rubbing, only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO sticker tears, only some very VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to a couple of the corners, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  Even RARER STILL - the bottom edges of the folding flaps are UNWORN!!!!  And this is INCREDIBLY  important - as this is where the name, title & cat number of this LP is printed!!!!  Most people dont even know this - as it is almost ALWAYS worn away!!!!  But here the bottom edge words on the folding flaps are PERFECTLY readable for once!!!!  The opening edges are beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the back of the cover is in SUPERB condition with NO grubbyness, only 1 TINY 'touched in' wear mark (this is absolutely TINY - and 99 out of 100 people would never even notice it!), NO yellowing, NO rubbing, NO ringwear, and NO writing!!!!  And of course - as mentioned before, this cover has NO rips, NO tears, and NO damage AT ALL to ANY of the shaped sections!!!!  A truly SUPERB cover and it must grade Excellent+ if not better - and is almost NEVER seen in this SUPERB condition today!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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