The Early Beatles
Capitol ST-2309 STEREO
Released 3/22/65
Item # LP060
Price $6,000
Factory # 6 on back cover, Los Angeles CA.
Extremely tight seal corner to corner.
No rips, No tears. No yellowing.
Olive Green sleeve (Summer to Late 1965 Capitol sleeve) visible through mouth
opening.
2 factory shrink "breath holes" evident on front Cover.
This Sealed example is a
GEM and is virtually
PERFECT MINT. Stellar corner to corner.
Front Cover graphics and
colors are ASTONISHING.
This is a SPARKLING Sealed example of the album that sold
reasonably well,
considering it contained no new songs, and all were previously
released on the Vee-Jay's Introducing The Beatles.
For that reason, Capitol did not press many copies of this title.
Finding a STEREO Sealed one is a treasure, for
Stereo copies of Beatles
albums
manufactured prior to 1966 are significantly RARER
than their Mono counterparts.
It's estimated that only
FIFTEEN
percent of Capitol's Beatles albums
manufactured prior to 1966 were Stereo.
Next to The Beatles' Second Album,
this is one of the rarest titles to find Sealed.
Back Cover remains a
VIBRANT clean and shiny SNOW white.
"STEREO NEEDLE DAMAGE"
print info is on bottom back cover,
signifying this is a true first issue :
The spine is rock solid and centered :
THE LP IS ACCOMPANIED BY A LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY
FROM
PERRY COX,
WHO ACCURATELY, CONCISELY AND ELOQUENTLY
DESCRIBES THIS PIECE :
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY
HINT OF "BROWNING" OR "MELLOWING"
THAT APPEAR IN ANY WHITE EDGE AREAS
OF THIS ITEM IS CAUSED BY THE CAMERA ANGLE
AND ITS FLASH. ALL WHITE AREAS ARE
CLEAN).
