BEATLES A Hard Days Night LP 1969 PARLOPHONE MONO

	£		69
	$		91

Hello!  Please note, that this auction will end on late Tuesday December 26th into early December 27th UK time.  Of course, I usually end my auctions on Sundays.  However, as this coming Sunday falls on Christmas Eve in the UK this is impossible.  I do NOT stop for the Christmas period, and will be listing some truly INCREDIBLE items!  In fact, most of my listings over the Christmas period have all come from one AMAZING collection, and are the BEST and RAREST items I have seen for a very VERY long time.  So don't forget to check back before Tuesday December 26th into early December 27th UK time - to see some the BEST ITEMS I have EVER listed!  Please read on about this AMAZING item below, and GOOD LUCK if you decide to bid:-

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Beatles called "A Hard Days Night" and is an ORIGINAL 1969 UK MONO Pressing on the Yellow & Black Parlophone label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEATLES RAREST & MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME RAREST VARIATIONS OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND ONE OF THE LAST MONOs OF THIS LP EVER PRESSED!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  THIS LP WAS ONLY EVER PRESSED LIKE THIS IN EARLY 1969 (FOR 2 OR 3 MONTHS ONLY!) - AND IS ONE OF THE RAREST BEATLES VARIATIONS YOU WILL EVER SEE!!!!  AND IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE RAREST VERSIONS OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  FINDING ANY UK LP FROM 1969 IS VERY RARE IN MONO (AS MOST PEOPLE WERE BUYING STEREOs INSTEAD!), BUT FINDING THIS BEATLES LP WHICH HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN RELEASED 5 YEARS BEFORE (AND ALMOST NO ONE WAS BUYING IT IN 1969!), IN MEGA RARE MONO IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

IT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO DATE THIS LP CORRECTLY - AS EARLIER MONO COPIES OF THIS LP ARE FAR MORE COMMON!!!!  BUT FINDING A 1969 MONO PRESSING OF THIS LP IS VERY VERY RARE INDEED!!!!  LUCKILY THIS LP IS EXTREMELY EASY TO DATE CORRECTLY - AND HERE ARE THE 1969 ONLY MONO DETAILS BELOW:-

1) THIS LP HAS A MUCH THINNER COVER THAN PREVIOUS MONO ISSUES.

2) THIS LP HAS A 'TINY' MONO ON THE COVER FRONT (PREVIOUS ISSUES HAD LARGER MONOs)

3) THE LABELS HAVE 1969 ONLY 'MONO TYPEFACE' WHICH IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO ALL OTHER ISSUES - AND IS IN ABSOLUTELY TINY TEXT!

4) THE BLACK COLOUR OF THE LABELS HAS A 'MUCH LIGHTER TINT' - UNIQUE TO 1969 ISSUES ONLY!

5) THE LABELS HAVE NO TAX CODING (ALL PREVIOUS ISSUES DID!)

6) THIS LP HAS A 'PATENTS APPLIED FOR' 1969 ONLY 'BROWN' ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE (ALL OTHER ISSUES DID NOT!)

7) AND THE MOTHER & STAMPER CODINGS ARE EXCLUSIVE TO 1969 MONOs ONLY - BEING 8/MDP & 8/ALR, WHICH ARE ONE OF THE VERY LAST MONO STAMPERS EVER MADE (BEFORE MONOs WERE THEN DELETED FOREVER!)

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN BRILLIANT CONDITION - AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1969 UK MONO PRESSING ON THE '1969 ONLY' YELLOW & BLACK MONO PARLOPHONE LABEL, 'SOLD IN THE UK' LABEL TEXT, 'GRAMOPHONE COMPANY' EDGE TEXT, 'PATENTS APPLIED FOR' BROWN 'ADVERTISING' INNER SLEEVE, 3N/3N MONO MATRIX ENDINGS, AND ITS ORIGINAL 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' FLIPBACK LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' MONO COVER (WITH 'TINY' MONO TEXT ON THE COVER FRONT!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Parlophone UK MONO Pressing from 1969 and is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl!!!!  The Cat. No is PMC 1230 on the ORIGINAL Yellow & Black MONO Parlophone label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK MONO pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO writing, NO wear, and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  The vinyl is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO nasty concentric marks AT ALL, NO scufflines, only 1 TINY hairline only 1 track ONLY, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND SHINES LIKE NEW!!!!  It is also great to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO skips, only a few light clicks on 1 track (NONE elsewhere AT ALL!), NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some EXTREMELY low level background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good++++ if not better!!!!  BRILLIANT RECORD!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 'Patents Applied For' Brown 'Advertising' inner sleeve which is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 'Garrod & Lofthouse' Flipback Laminated 'Patents Pending' MONO Cover (with 'TINY' Mono text on the cover front!) is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear (apart from a few TINY creases on the spinal edge!), only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO splits, only a VERY few light creases elsewhere (cover is VERY flat looking!), NO rips, NO tears, only some very VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to the corner tips, VERY shiny laminate, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, NO rubbing, NO ringwear, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  BRILLIANT COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS  (ESPECIALLY AS A MEGA RARE 1969 MONO!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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