The Smiths 5 x limited edn numbered 10" LPs rare mint

	£		75
	$		99

This listing is for a set of five (5) limited edition and individually numbered 10" vinyl albums by The Smiths, as issued by Warner Brothers / WEA Records during 1993, shortly after they acquired the rights to The Smiths' catalogue.

Please note, these are re-issues of those classic Rough Trade 80's originals, all produced on high quality 10" discs and each one housed in original artworked sleeves with white die-cut inner sleeves. Each sleeve is (limited edition) numbered. Brilliant!

Very hard to come across nowadays, especially in such good condition as these are! Please see my photos of the actual items and refer to my concise description below for further reassurance of these stunning records!

1. The Smiths (SMITHS 1)
2. Meat Is Murder (SMITHS 3)
3. The Queen Is Dead (SMITHS 4)
4. Strangeways Here We Come (SMITHS 6)
5. Rank (SMITHS 7)

Well, I shall add to my description soon, once I have further catalagoue and track details to hand, save to say all 5 albums are in near mint condition, all still have shrinkwrapping. In fact, Strangeways and Rank are still sealed and are therefore MINT! (again, please see photos).

Update 1/10/07:  Here's that additional info for each album, as promised above:

SMITHS 1 The Smiths (barcode) 4509-91891-1

• Ltd edn. no. 1828
• 10 tracks (reel around the fountain/you've got everything now/miserable lie/pretty girls make graves/the hand that rocks the cradle/still ill/hand in glove/what difference does it make?/i don't owe you anything/suffer little children).
• Cover, inner sleeve and disc ALL near mint condition.
• Cover star Joe Dallesandro culled from Andy Warhol's "Flesh"  1968, directed by Paul Morrissey.

SMITHS 3 Meat Is Murder 4509-91894-1

• Ltd edn. no. 1368
• 9 tracks (the headmaster ritual/rusholme ruffians/i want the one i can't have/what she said/that joke isn't funny anymore/nowhere fast/well i wonder/barbarism begins at home/meat is murder).
• Cover star culled from Emile de Antonio's "In The Year Of The Pig" 1969.
• Cover, inner sleeve and disc ALL in near mint condition.

SMITHS 4 The Queen Is Dead 4509-91896-1

• Ltd edn. no. 3712
• 10 tracks (the queen is dead/frankly mr shankly/i know it's over/never had no one ever/cemetry gates/bigmouth strikes again/the boy with the thorn in his side/vicar in a tutu/there is a light that never goes out/some girls are bigger than others).
• Cover Alain Delon photo copyright 1965 MGM.
• Cover, inner sleeve and disc ALL in near mint condition.

SMITHS 6 Strangeways Here We Come 4509-91899-1

• Ltd edn. no. 467
• 10 tracks (a rush and a push and the land is ours/i started something i couldn't finish/death of a disco dancer/girlfriend in a coma/stop me if you think you've heard this one before/last night i dreamt that somebody loved me/unhappy birthday/paint a vulgar picture/death at one's elbow/i won't share you).
• Cover star Richard Davalos from the collection of David Loehr.
• Item still sealed = in MINT condition.

SMITHS 7 RANK (a live recording) 4509-91900-1

• Ltd edn. no. 4887 
• Double album
• 14 tracks (the queen is dead/panic/vicar in a tutu/ask/(marie's the name)his latest flame-rusholme ruffians/the boy with the thorn in his side/what she said/is it really so strange?/cemetry gates/london/i know it's over/the draize train/still ill/bigmouth strikes again).
• Recorded live at the National Ballroom, Kilburn, October 1986.
• Cover star Alexandra Bastedo copyright John D Green studio.
• Item still sealed = in MINT condition.

5 stunning albums in fabulous condition which would enhance any Smiths and Mozzer collection, alongside the original Rough Trade classics, to be cherished for years to come!

Postage and packing for these special things is:

UK £ 7.50 special (next day) delivery

Europe £ 10.00 signed for international air mail

Rest of World £ 12.50 signed for international air mail

These delivery options offer the most safe and secure way of sending this consignment to ensure that they arrive with the winning bidder, just as they have left me, in near mint condition.

Please bid with confidence and also see those other items which I currently have listed. You will not be disappointed!

Finally, please contact me for further photos or additional information on these brilliant Morrissey and Marr masterpieces!