The Kinks ARTHUR w/Queen Victoria INSERT Reprise RS 6366 Gatefold NM/NM- LP

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More PSYCH and Classic 1960's Rock LPs from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a good amount of PROMOs and a few choice IMPORT LPs.
Many of these still in SHRINK WRAP ...several STILL SEALED
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL and Masterdisk pressings in the mix!

*Sadly I am NOT FAST at listing and am lucky to get around 50 up at a time, but they will keep on coming (as I pause between each auction series to focus on top level packing and immediate shipping) throughout this fall, several hundred to list, so keep checking back.
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Please NOTE:
Some of my PHOTOS suffer from LOW LIGHT lighting conditions (due to very cloudy / rainy days recently).
This causes unavoidable grain and spottiness in image, particularly on dark covers / labels and especially the vinyl.
I apologize for that and assure all bidders that such grain/spots are Digital Artifacts only - are not actually present
on these LP Covers / labels / vinyl themselves at all  - and DO NOT properly represent the true condition.
My camera simply is not able to resolve fine detail in low light ...especially on the vinyl grooves.

In any such case, please always refer to the written grade and description for accurate condition details.
*some of the vinyl is appearing like unearthed ancient archeological artifacts or mars-scapes (!)
If this could have been at all avoided it would have been. ...hopefully new camera soon!

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This auction is for:
THE KINKS
ARTHUR or The Decline and Fall of The British Empire
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REPRISE Records RS 6366
early 1970's Tan Label issue • Stereo LP
Die Cut QUEEN VICTORIA / LYRICS Insert included

VINYL is NM/NM-
Exceptionally clean, full gloss LP has a very few extremely light hairline wisps on Side 1, visible under hard bright light, that are inaudible. Side 2 is Near Mint with no marks. Clean labels with a manufacturer's wrinkle at center hole, label side 2.
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COVER is NM-
Thick, solid gatefold sleeve is very close to new with only a touch of faint wear, mostly right at top / bottom edges. No creases, writing or soul. Snapping bright back and inside gatefold are both pristine, NM. Straight edges and sharp corners all around. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

The RAY DAVIES 1969 MASTERPIECE - ultimate British Concept Rock LP
and follow-up to Village Green Preservation Society?
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Not the ultimate 1st press, but an early one - and quite a nice one indeed.

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: RS-1-6366-LW2  - 1
?Side Two: RS-2-6366-LW1  - 1
(the last "1" in each side's matrix number is stamped sideways.)

Released in October of 1969, ARTHUR is one of a veritable string of period masterpieces. The others were "Face to Face" (1966), "Something Else" (1967) and "The Village Green Preservation Society" (1968), (as well as -arguably- "Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround", which followed ARTHUR by a year) - released by the second-best pop group ever to come out of England, "Arthur" was "one of the most effective concept albums in rock history, as well as one of the best and most influential British pop records of its era." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)

"Less ambitious than Tommy, and far more musical — no fillers, no waste tracks, not a matter of ideas but of perceptions worked out by bass, drums, voices, horns and guitars — Arthur is by all odds the best British album of 1969. It shows that Pete Townshend still has worlds to conquer, and that the Beatles have a lot of catching up to do" J.R. Young wrote in Rolling Stone (November 1, 1969)

Die-Cut Victoria insert is MINT
Please note that it has 2 factory-pressed folds; as it originally came.?
*Insert kept inside a clear rice paper sheath for protection.

Original REPRISE Company inner sleeve included.

A MUST have for all citizens of KINKDOM
...or anyone applying to enter.

Disc kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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Please see my other listings for more KINKS and other
Vintage Collectible PSYCH, Rare 60's and CLASSIC ROCK LPs
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All records packed with vinyl (inside inner sleeve) behind cover with bubble-wrap around all sides - sandwiched between stiff corrugated flats and shipped in strong LP mailer boxes for best protection in the mail.

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