THE BEATLES RARE 1ST PRESSING GOLD PARLOPHONE Please Please Me NICE PMC 1202

	£		379
	$		502

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During this lockdown, I started to sort through some of my mountains of rare records, at first pulling out ones I didn't play as much as I should, or else ones that I've since upgraded from. However as time has gone on I have done some soul searching, and dug deeper into my collection (and the ones that were kind of my investment plan for if I fell on hard times!), this week, I offer some of them to you, mainy rare Beatles variants,and a bit of very rare Psych Folk etc.  Some super rare Beatles (Megarare SOLID CENTRES  And some rare LPs Gold Parlophone, XEX-606-1 etc.
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THE BEATLES RARE 1ST PRESSING GOLD PARLOPHONE Please Please Me!

This LP needs no introduction, however I'll probably write a little bit anyway!
As with the very earliest RED LABEL versions of the Love Me Do and Please Please Me 45s the BEATLES debut LP also caught the very tail end of the 1950s style labels. With their 1st LP, the very initial pressings were pressed with the now incredibly sought after GOLD PARLOPHONE labels. There were two variations to this label, both the incorrect "Dick James" publishing credit version for the very first copies,and the corrected "Northern Songs" issue very shortly after. This copy is one of the very first initial copies off the pressing machines with "Dick James" publishing credits. These initial copies also camehoused in what have now been dubbed "Gold sleeves", as with Abbey Road at the tail end of the 60s,there was an allignment correction on all butthe initial copies. In this case it was to do with the Angus McBean photography credits to the bottom most right hand corner. The very first "Gold" copies of this sleeve had the "P" of "Photo" starting just below end of the final "S" of "12 other songS", whereas all of the later 60s copies realligned this more left (a marginal,but significant diference!). These "Gold Sleeves" are sought after in their own right,and usually in pretty trashed condition. This is one such Gold sleeve,and the condition is significantly above most!
Record Condition: VG I really want to give this higher, as in fact the general surfaces are significantly higher, the general lustre of these surfaces is beautifuly mirror-like, even under the scrutiny of being angled under strong, direct light they hold up remarkably well, however, there are a few more visible surface marks (their presence made all the more visible,by the lack of other marks!), the largest visible in the photos, but notactuallythe audible one! And a handful of the smaller ones of these (possibly 3 or 4) are extremely fainly feelable if you very carefully run your fingernail over them (the most signifiacnt of which featured in photo 12). Absolutely no jumps,or even signifficant pops, as you'll know from these very early 60s Parlophone pressings, they are extremely sonicly robust anyway, so these marks don't test it much at all, if you really listen out, there are a couple of light ticks if you realy listen for them near the beginning of each side, and a little background vinyl presence/static (mainly audible during the silences between tracks,or the most quiet passages), absolutely nothing overpowering. Great audio, with no sibulance etc.
Labels Condition: EX- as you can see from the photos, the beautiful Gold text, so often faded or rubbed is wnderfully crisp on both sides, these labels are completely free from grafitti, stickers, tears or even significant rubs, short of a very little halfway down the track listing of side two,though not significant enough to get in the way of the lovely Gold text, and a very little amount of rub around the central spindle holes there's barely even a spindle trail due to these lovely glossy Gold labels! Fantastic! (No embossed tax code on either side)
Sleeve Condition: VG at least! The front is wonderful completely free from grafitti, stains, tears, nicks,  stickers or even significant handling wear, pretty damn crisp! The edges are nice with mild wear, but absolutelyno wear-throughs. Slight corner rub, but again nothing significant. The spine is perfectly legible with absolutely no wear-through etc. The opening mouth edges are,short of a little age realated foxing, nice and crisp,completely free from tears or nicks. Nice. Thenon-laminated back sleeve shows a little more age,but is still much more respectable than most of these "Gold" Ernest J. Day sleeves! Theres a little discolouration,mainly near the bottom where it has at some point had some selotape to strengthen the bottom seam, which must have worked as almost every copy I see has comeaway all the way across,whereas this has come apart neatly to the halfway point, but then has held well beyond that. This tape has been removed, and has created a light discolouration, and also a small area of abrasion damage just to the bottom of the EMITEX circle. Other than a little age related mottling the back sleeve isalso really nice,completely free from grafitti. A wellabove average "Gold" sleeve!

DEADWAX INFO:

SIDE 1:

2                        RG
    XEX  421 - 1N
SIDE 2:

1
2                          GL
    XEX  422 - 1N

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