Very Rare Beatles Stereo Yesterday and Today-2nd State

$

316

I am the original owner.  I bought it new while I was living in Pacific Grove, CA.

My initials (TM) are in black pen to the right of ST 2553 in the top right corner of the album cover front.

My initials (TRM) are in blue pen below the RIAA 5 designation in the lower right corner.

There is a label (like a return address label) that reads 'from the Music Library of Tom MacDonald' stuck over the Capitol Records label on Side 1 of the record.

I used the original orange insert to keep my record before placing it in the album cover.  So the insert is open over 95% of the bottom where the record fell into the insert. 

This prevented much damage to the album cover itself.  The bottom right of the album cover has seperated two inches.

I CANNOT claim to have never used the record.  I liked the Beatles and played it a lot. 

I can see two lines across the tracks (from 2-6) on the left of Side 1.  I can see one line across and two lines parallel to the right of Side 2.  I recorded one of the songs - Act Naturally, Song 6, Side 1 - to my computer.  (I didn't copy the others since I already had from some other record or source.)  It sounds fine although I hear a couple skips towards the end.  There is a reasonable chance that is from buffer overflow since it is near the end of the track.

The album cover is in pretty good shape for its age. (I've never bought or sold an album online before so am not familiar with any scoring system).  The easiest way to state it is that it has evidence of going in and out of a record stack but without any evidence of abuse.  I tried to take good pictures so you can judge for yourself.

I took a close up picture of the cover where Ringo's black turtleneck can be visible on a second state cover.  I can see it in the photo but that may be because I know exactly what I am looking for.  It is there.

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today

• Early album cover proofs show the word "Yesterday" in quotes
• Numbers designating where the covers originated were printed near the RIAA symbol on the back; for example, stereo copies from the Los Angeles plant are designated "5" and mono Los Angeles copies are marked "6".
• Mono copies outnumbered stereo copies by about 10 to 1, making the stereo copies far more rare and valuable to collectors.
• Copies with the pasted-on cover intact above the butcher image are known as "second state" or "pasteovers"; today, pasteover covers that have remained unpeeled are also becoming increasingly rare and valuable.
• Covers that have had the Trunk cover removed to reveal the underlying butcher image are known as "third state" covers; these are now the most common (and least valuable, although their value varies depending on how well the cover is removed) as people continue to peel second state covers.

Track listing

All songs are credited to Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.

1. "Drive My Car" – 2:30
2. "I'm Only Sleeping" – 3:01
3. "Nowhere Man" – 2:45
4. "Doctor Robert" – 2:15
5. "Yesterday" – 2:08
6. "Act Naturally" (Morrison-Russell) – 2:33

1. "And Your Bird Can Sing" – 2:01
2. "If I Needed Someone" (George Harrison) – 2:24
3. "We Can Work It Out" – 2:15
4. "What Goes On" (Lennon-McCartney-Richard Starkey) – 2:51
5. "Day Tripper" – 2:50