Simon & Garfunkel BOOKENDS Orig.1968 LP w/POSTER NM in Shrink Columbia KCS-9529

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Simon & Garfunkel BOOKENDS Orig.1968 LP w/POSTER NM in Shrink! Columbia KCS-9529

  Description: Large Group of RARE 1960's and PSYCH LP Listings this series
                            ...the final phase (3) of more than 150, through the last in this week.
Several FIRST PRESSINGS, PRIVATE ISSUES and PROMOS included.
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A wide variety of vintage Psych, Folk-Rock, Garage, Beat, '60s and British Rock.
A few choice Folk, Surf, Soul and 60's oddities included!
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All opening bids in the auction series begin at only $0.98
Being the middle of summer, I know that many of these will sell way too low, as so many bidders are away now.
So everybody here has a good shot at taking some of these beauties home! GOOD LUCK ALL!!
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Each auction features full, edge-to-edge, High Resolution Photos.
Many with multiple sound-clips taken directly from the LP on auction.
I simply didn't have enough time to create / add sound-clips to ALL of the auctions.
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Most of the vinyl is in EX to NM condition -a few VG+
Condition Details / Specifics for this LP listed below.
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This auction is for:
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Simon & Garfunkel
BOOKENDS
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COLUMBIA Records KCS 9529
Original 1968 issue • Stereo LP
360 SOUND 1G/1J PRESSING • POSTER
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VINYL is NM
Full gloss, thick, non-flexible Vinyl looks and plays Like New. Original issue red 2-EYE labels are immaculate.
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COVER is NM
Still in the original Shrink wrap, No creases, dings, bumps or other marks. All corners sharp, all edges straight.
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STRICT, CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE Grading
NM / EX (VG++) / VG+ / VG
MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE ONE: XSM118887-1J
SIDE TWO: XSM118888-1G
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.Very hard to find ORIGINAL KCS issue on 1st 360 SOUND "2-EYE" labels
Still in shrink with both the "Mrs. Robinson" HYPE sticker and TITLES sticker.
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"TITLES" sticker is a wide clear plastic, with yellow print -also hyping the poster.
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Original 22" x 33" Full Color 6-panel POSTER included in MINT Condition
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Extremely rare to find all three of these (both stickers and the Poster) still together!
Original COLUMBIA Company "SUPERPOSTER" inner sleeve included.
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LOW OPENING BID - NO RESERVE
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Disc inside separate Poly inner sleeve to protect both the original inner & the vinyl
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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Please see my other auctions for more
Collectible, Vintage 1960's and Psych LPs.
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Simon & Garfunkel quietly slipped BOOKENDS, their fourth album, into the bins with a whisper in March 1968.

They are equal collaborators with producer/engineer Roy Halee in a multivalently layered song cycle observing the confusion of those seeking an elusive American Dream, wistfully reflecting on innocence lost forever to the cold winds of change. Bookends opens with an acoustic guitar stating a theme, slowly and plaintively. It erupts into the musical dissonance that introduces "Save the Life of My Child". Its uneasy rock & roll frames highly metaphorical and ironic lyrics and a nursery rhyme bridge.

"America" is a folk song with a lilting soprano saxophone in its refrain as a small pipe organ paints acoustic guitars, framed by the ghostly traces of classic American Songbook pop structures. Two people travel the landscape by bus searching for the track's subject, eventually discovering that everyone else on the freeway is too. Its sophisticated harmonic invention is toppled by its message; "America" becomes an ellipsis, a cipher, an unanswerable question.

"Overs," a study about the end of a relationship, contains Halee's ingenious use of sound: lighting a cigarette and inhaling and exhaling its smoke underscore the story told by the melody and lyrics. In a two-minute field recording of the voices of old people collected from nursing homes by Garfunkel, disembodied voices reveal entire lifetimes in a few seconds.

"Old Friends" carries the message deeper. Simon's image of two old men sitting on a park bench sharing memories and their fears of the changes surrounding them is indelible. A horn section threatens to interrupt their reverie, reflecting the chaos they perceive, but is warded off as the gentle melody returns and fades into the album's opening theme.

In "Fakin' It," Simon reveals the falsity inherent in modern life -- it's better to appear to have it together than reflect the struggle of not being able to: "This feeling of fakin' it / I still haven't shaken it / I know I'm fakin' i t /I'm not really makin' it." This is followed by one of the unheralded classics of Simon's compositional career "Punky's Dilemma", full of sunny irony and human spirit gone sideways.

The album's final three tracks, "Mrs. Robinson" (the iconic theme song from the film The Graduate), "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and the album's concluding track, "At the Zoo," offer a tremblingly bleak vision of the future rooted in the lives of everyday people who "fake it," living an illusory dream publicly while trembling with confusion and fear in private (no matter one's generation), subverting the Madison Avenue notion of the "generation gap" simply and honestly.

Bookends' problematic, disillusioned themes, sometimes disguised in wry humor, striking arrangements, and augmented orchestral instrumentation, portray the sounds of people in an American life that they no longer understand, or understands them. Simon & Garfunkel never overstate; instead they observe, almost journalistically, enormous life and cultural questions in the process of them being asked.

BOOKENDS is stunning in its vision of a bewildered America in search of itself.

My LP packing is considered to be among the very best on eBay!
I would have it no other way.

All records packed with vinyl (inside inner sleeve) behind cover - and shipped in strong LP mailer boxes with bubble-wrap around all sides - sandwiched between stiff corrugated flats for best protection in the mail.
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Please be aware that these important supplies add to my shipping costs - of which only a small fraction is covered in the shipping charge.

SHIPPING RATES
...All packages are shipped insured (at no added cost to you)
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USA
Media Mail: $4.00 •//• or Priority Mail: $9.99
Most of my customers prefer Media Mail because it is very cheap. Please keep in mind that it's cheap because it is slow; Media Mail packages can take a week to travel 30 miles - or around two weeks to travel cross-country. Sometimes it can arrive cross-country in 5 days - sometimes (very rarely) it takes a month. Due to Postal Service conditions, the actual arrival time cannot be known in advance.
Additional LPs in same shipment: $1.00 each
Combine buys to save on shipping!
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ALL OTHER COUNTRIES
I charge EXACT POSTAGE only, Worldwide.
NOTE!!
All packages above 4 Lbs (5-6 or more LPs) can NOT ship by the low 1ST CLASS International rate.
These must be shipped by the higher (but faster) PRIORITY or EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL RATES.
Any package (single item or combined) above $400 VALUE can NOT ship by low 1st CLASS rate.
These are US Postal System rules, not mine.
I will ALWAYS offer you shipping choices
 -the LOWEST rate that US Postal system allows - plus the next higher, but FASTER rate.
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*PLEASE do not ask me to mark the item as a 'GIFT' for customs. Unfortunately, I cannot.
The postal clerks know better; I ship LPs constantly (over 30 years) and cannot fool them.

I ship as soon as I receive cleared payment and treat ALL
my customers and their records with the greatest respect.
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I pack LPs to survive even the worst conditions the postal systems can hand out.
You will LOVE my LP packing!
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After the auction:
• Payment to be received within 7 days of auction end
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• You will receive winning bidder notification within 24 hours. IF you are only buying ONE LP, you may simply PayPal right away for immediate shipment.
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• COMBINED purchases / shipping Available on items won within 7 days.
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* If you are purchasing MORE THAN ONE ITEM from my list, please don't pay before your last item (within 7-day period) ends -so that I can combine your LPs on the INVOICE and charge you the reduced shipping accordingly. If you are DONE purchasing, you may eMail me at that time and ask for your INVOICE right away -for quickest shipment.
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HAPPY BIDDING!   Shipping: I ship as soon as I receive payment and treat ALL my customers and their records with the greatest respect. I package the LPs to survive even the worst conditions the postal systems can hand out.   Payment: Payment to be received within 7 days of auction end. I prefer PayPal for their secure, fast, dependable payment service. If you need to pay by any other method, please eMail me to see if your alternate choice can be accepted. I am happy to do my best to make payment as easy for you as possible. Any mailed payment MUST contain the name of the item and YOUR name AND ADDRESS in the SAME ENVELOPE to be sure I know which item you are paying for -and where to ship it.  
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