BEATLES A Hard Days Night LP 1964 UK 1st Press MONO PMC 1230 RARE LABEL ???

	£		50
	$		66

Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night LP

VERY RARE SIDE A LABEL FORMAT, RARE MT Tax Code and HARDER TO FIND ERNEST J. DAY sleeve.
Original UK Mono 1st Press of The Beatles 3rd UK album, released 10th July 1964.

Housed within the rarer laminated Ernest J. Day sleeve with black and white “Parlophone Company” logo and “Trade Mark of the Parlophone” text, front top left and mid-sized “mono” top right. Complete with original tracing paper lined “Use Emitex…” die-cut inner sleeve.

Black/Yellow Parlophone Labels with Arial font. “Recording First Published 1964” "THE PARLOPHONE CO.LTD." perimeter print and "SOLD IN U.K SUBJECT TO...." label text.

Track listing format of side A is VERY RARE! Most pressings show the track titles listed directly beneath one another or wrapped text where the title of track 2 “I Should Have Known Better” is split over two lines. This rare pressing shows the titles of track 1 “A Hard Day’s Night” and track 2 “I Should Have Known Better” printed on one single line. I have consulted a number of vinyl specialists and none have seen this pressing. The only reference I have found to it is in a Japanese collectors book. Please see photograph. This is a very rare press and a real collectors item!!!

Catalogue Code: PMC 1230.

Matrix Numbers: Side A - XEX 481-3N and Side B - XEX 482-3N

Side A: Mother code 4 and Stamper code ART (329).

Side B: Mother code 7 and Stamper AAO (335). Side B also has a Stamper code OO that has been crossed out!

RARE MT Tax Code around spindle hole on side B.

With the fluctuations in purchase tax the tax codes were changed accordingly. The MT tax code was in use between 1st January 1963 and 30th June 1963. Following this the KT tax code was introduced on the 1st July 1963 and was used until at least 1972. This album was released on 1st June 1964, by which point the KT tax code had been in use for nearly a year!

Vinyl condition: as near as MINT!!! . With jet black mirror like surfaces that have that just pressed look!!! With NO scratches NO marks or blemishes, has only the odd very tiny faint line is visible whatsoever!!! only when held under a strong lamp!!

Some minor spindle marks to the centre of the label around the spindle hole on both sides of the labels both in near MINT!!! condition

Emitex inner sleeve is in very good condition with no tears. Only a few creases to the corners and some mild discolouration due to age.

Sleeve: Front EX- / Back EX+. It is clean from marks and writing both inside and out. Perfectly flat. The front of the sleeve is in excellent condition, some very light surface wear to the laminate in places although still maintaining its glossy surface. The blue background and red writing are bright and clear – no fading or discolouration. The white top border is bright without any yellowing. The back of the sleeve has some very mild discolouration to the un-laminated cardboard although this does not obscure or detract from the text or black and white photographs and is mainly adjacent to the open edge.

There is some very slight scuffing to the top right corner ad bottom corners of the sleeve although minimal and a few chips to the laminate of the bottom seam where the white card underneath is evident. A couple of areas of light spidering / creasing of the laminate along the fifth column of photographs near the open edge of the sleeve over the photographs of George and Paul. This is also some light spidering / creasing of the laminate horizontally away from the spine in a few places.

Flip backs of the Ernest J. Day sleeve are intact and sound. Some slight discolouration to the bottom of the vertical flip back (approx 3cm).

The spine is in excellent condition, bright white with no yellowing or discolouration. Laminate is intact with no creases, tears or cracks. Title text of the spine is perfect with no damage or wear.

Generally this LP is in excellent condition given its age of 48 years! Also worthy of note, “that the LP housed within this sleeve is the first-ever album release to be made up entirely of self-composed and self-performed Beatles compositions” as it proclaims on the back of the sleeve. An excellent and often overlooked LP (and film!) and a fantastic example of the prolific song writing ability of Lennon and McCartney at the beginning of 1964!

Track Listing: (1) A Hard Day’s Night, (2) I Should Have Known Better, (3) If I Fell, (4) I’m Happy Just To Dance With You, (5) And I Love Her, (6) Tell Me Why, (7) Can’t Buy Me Love, (8) Any Time At All, (9) I’ll Cry Instead, (10) Things We Said Today, (11) When I Get Home, (12) You Can’t Do That, (13) I’ll Be Back.

DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF NON PAYING BIDDERS !!!! EBAY MEMBERS WITH LESS THAN 10 FEEDBACKS MUST EMAIL ME PRIOR TO BIDDING OTHERWISE ALL BIDS WILL BE CANCELLED !!