HUMAN INSTINCT. NZ PSYCH ORIG. BEST COPY IN EXISTENCE?

$

299

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I am pleased you could stop by and take a look at what I have for sale today. I hope you won't be disappointed at the quality of my merchandise as I have sourced what I believe is the very "Cream" of UK, Australian and New Zealand underground and obscure progressive, psychedelic rock and folk lp's and singles. These such records I will be listing v. soon and this particular lp is but one example of the sort I am now talking about. Please feel free to have a look at my other auctions of prog and psych which can be viewed by clicking on the link titled "View seller's other items" at the right hand side of your screen.  Also, you may wish to bookmark my auctions for further viewing. Simply right click on "View seller's other items" and then left click on the appropriate field in the drop down menu. e.g. "Book mark this link" or "Add to favourites" etc....
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Firstly, I must say that I really do know how to grade a record. I have had only 1 complaint about my grading of a record which was 2 years ago. I was careless at that time as it was part of about 60 lp's I listed in one fell swoop and I was working too fast before time got away from me. Other than that, the other 6 negatives I received in 6 years was either for revenge feedback from seller or slow delivery due to either Aust. Post or the Post service from country of destination. The 1089 positives I recieved in this same time period are often glowing, from overjoyed/exstatic recipients. Included in the happy buyers were those that bought original copies of Madrigal - s/t on Spyder label from USA (US$770.00), Rendell/Carr (US$710.00), Madden & Harris (US$744.00) to name a few in that price league.

I have been grading and selling records for many years now and after that time one tends to learn what to look for and describe what you see so that the description relays a mental picture to the other person. Having said that, and with the above facts & figures in mind, please bid with absolute confidence on my listings. I and others would say that I am one of the best and longest in the business and if you want to find sellers who grade badly or package badly with flimsy mailers like many UK sellers (who use envelope mailers with either none or one stiffener) or don't say how they grade/package at all, then it would be easy to do and you will get as much joy from them when you open the mailer as can be expected i.e. none. I grade under direct lamplight..of course, and play grade them on my Rega Planar 2 t/table with RB250 arm and new Elise Cartridge.

A grading of M- is my highest grading for a used record. To my way of grading, if it displays a few light paper scuffs from putting the disc in and out of the inner sleeve or perhaps a few tiny creases to the spine area, this signifies it is a used record but handled with extreme care if there is nothing else to report. It is as good as a used record gets. Anything else/more faults would get EX to EX+ for sure and then downward from there. I AM pretty pedantic. It would be the sort of condition that would satisfy all but maybe 1% of EXTREMELY pedantic of collectors. I have had no complaints so I am doing something right obviously. - Which brings me to packaging.

On all my listings, I have included a side-shot photo of one of my parcels ready to go out to a recent winning bidder. What this really shows is the lp was placed in the middle of one panel of a 35 x 35cm cardboard which is 4mm thick. Then it is sandwiched between another such panel. These oversized panels mean it is going to be protected from side impacts and corner impacts due to the space all around it. We collectors need this sort of thing badly, but sadly, not many sellers offer it.
Then, after this has been taped around the edges, I take ANOTHER two such 4mm thick panels of the same size and tape them over the original sandwich-style mailer I just made, thus providing an astonishing 8mm (or > 5/16 inch) of impact protection on BOTH SIDES of the lp and tantamount to packing it in an Abrams M-1 tank !!
Of course, the lp jacket/sleeve is placed in a plastic outer sleeve and the disc is placed behind it and the plastic sleeve is then taped down around the edges if there is loose space there, to avoid movement or sliding around of the items, which is highly unlikely, given the sandwich mailer I use which prevents this from happening on it's own. If you're sick of receiving bad packaging from record sellers, then you'll be glad to know that sort of thing it stops right here!

I see no need to write anything about the music on the lp as they are all well documented and in the top 10% of all lp's in their genre regarding rarity and desirability. I will try and make the condition description as brief as possible.

Well then, now that you have read that and understand the parameters of my listings, here then, are the details and item description of the lp.

For auction today: Human Instinct - Stoned Guitar, on Air label # ARBS 107. New Zealand original pressing with flipback sleeve.

Ok, I could go on and on about this copy but here are the facts in a nutshell: I have seen, holding in my hand as many copies of this lp as anyone. Probably 20 different copies over the years. That's a fact. Then I have also seen at least 20 other copies on ebay and another 10 - 20 copies on lists. Thats a huge amount.
Some of them were as good as this copy overall, but NONE were better than this. That's a fact also. I know some very big collectors here and in NZ and they all said that that my copy was among the best they had seen and they do not posses a copy that is anywhere near M-/M-. They don't exist. Most had been to wild parties and if you have ever partied and or got inebriated with Maoris for example, as I have, you would know what a wild party really is.

Sleeve has one creases in lower corner and a few small creases along spine etc... These are unavoidable. There is a v. small amount of wear to front and this is the least I have ever seen on this fragile unlaminated sleeve. Spine and seams are heavily rubbed. Rear has only a tiny feint bit of wear to left side...that's it. Miraculous that the all-black rear sleeve has only such a small amount. This is one of the areas that this copy comes out in front.

The other area is the disc. There are only 2 x small marks (less than 1 cm each) on S1 T1. That's it!! Not affect play.
No other marks or damage. I know you are thinking, sure, that's just not possible for this lp, but I assure that this is true. Under a bright light no less.

Label A has writing (see scan) and label B is clean. Plays close to M- all the way through.
The winning bidder of this lp will make their collector friends feel sick with envy when they see this copy because they wont be able to beat it and you can rub it in when you show them how quietly it plays, with no crackling.

My advice is to get this copy now or bid on a lesser one later.

Graded: cover/disc = strong EX/EX+.

I will do my best to answer any questions about this lp and send more photos of item via email, if you request it. Overseas postage for this lp is approx. US$15.00.

PLEASE READ THIS PART ABOUT PAYMENTS: I accept Australian Postal Money Orders and direct deposit. I also accept Paypal. Regretably, I usually leave neg. feedback for non-payers...it's true. Thanking you, again.