Jack White BLUNDERBUSS Lightning Bolt (Black with Blue Bolt) Limited Edition

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Jack White BLUNDERBUSS (LIGHTNING BOLT BLACK VINYL WITH BLUE BOLT EDITION)  -  Another terrific Jack White/Third Man Records rarity: the "Lightning Bolt" edition of Blunderbuss. I purchased this copy used from Amoeba's Hollywood location in July 2013. These LPs were available on an extremely limited basis, and now's your chance to get this rarity at a fair market price!
IMPORTANT:  The cover is in EX condition; there is no significant trauma, but the corners show a bit of wear or bumping. Pictures 1 through 4 show the cover front, cover rear, inner gatefold left, and inner gatefold right. 
Pictures 5 through 7 show the near mint lyric insert (front, rear, and fully opened). Pictures 8 & 9 show the original lp inner sleeve (I have stored the newly cleaned LP in a MFSL rice paper sleeve, housed in a separate generic cardboard cover).  
Pictures 10 through 17 show closeups of each corner of the LP from: Front Top Left to Top Right to Bottom Left to Bottom Right, and then in the same order for the rear.
PLAY GRADING: I sample-graded (listened to the beginning and ending of each track) and the LP grades at EX. The LP plays and sounds great, but this is definitely not the highest-quality pressing...and candidly, exactly what I expect from United Record Pressing: in my experience their LPs are good, but not great, and the regular appearance of "Incidental Surface Noise" means this record, even when it was brand new, was never going to qualify as mint or near mint. 

ABOUT USED RECORDS I SELL ON EBAY: I will be selling many high value used records over the coming months (or years!). I've been lucky enough to be able to use very high-end cartridges on both my mono and stereo turntables. The cartridges are cleaned before each side is played, and I'm currently using the DS-Audio ST-50 cartridge cleaner. 
I clean ALL records, every time, before the platter hits the turntable. I've been doing so for the past 20 years or more, and I am currently fortunate enough to own THE best record cleaning machine in the world: KLAudio's KD-CLN LP200T (Acoustic Sounds uses these machines to clean THEIR used records). Every used record I sell on Ebay is cleaned before I grade the album, and then cleaned AFTER grading so that the buyer receives the LP in the best possible condition. PICTURE 20 SHOWS THE LP READY FOR CLEANING ON THE KLAUDIO MACHINE. 
In order to sell used records efficiently, I have two methods of grading used LPs:
Play-Graded - For my rarest records, I will listen to the entire LP and make track by track notes of any possible issues.
Sample-Graded - Other used records will be sampled at the beginning and end of each track, but I cannot guarantee the LP won't exhibit some random noise or pressing flaw that goes undetected. However, I find this approach is reasonably accurate, and considerably more so than visual grading, which I find can be quite deceptive (at least, I've never had any luck at it when buying used LPs).
ABOUT SHIPPING AND HANDLING: Please note there is a $3 fee included in Ebay's estimate of Media Mail shipping costs. I believe the best way to way to ship an LP includes a 13"x14"x3" "pizza" style box, 12"x12" cardboard flats, outer shopping bag, and bubble wrap. The shipping boxes alone cost me over $3 each, and the average total cost of shipping materials is around $4.72, so this is NOT a money-maker for me. However, it does ensure, consistently, that these high value LPs arrive safely. Please check my feedback and I think you'll see that buyers appreciate the care with which these precious artifacts are handled. 

COMBINED SHIPPING: I am more than happy to combine shipping. Ebay buyers pay the actual postage costs. If a single LP is purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $3 for shipping materials. If two LPs are purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $3 for shipping materials. If three or more LPs are purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $0 for shipping materials (I will absorb the cost of materials). As the final amount can only be calculated after auctions have ended, I will issue the appropriate refund on the day the LPs are shipped. 

About Me: I'm a long time Ebay buyer intent on selling a significant portion of my LP collection over the next year or two (or three!). I believe in the auction process, so I'm NOT going to list records at absurdly high prices, and I look forward to getting rare, out of print records into the hands of music lovers, record collectors and audiophiles (I consider myself all of the above). All LPS stored in a smoke-free, climate controlled environment. 

As for the USED LPs that I will begin selling soon (highly collectible albums from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, new/old stock LPs, a wide variety of out of print titles from the best audiophile labels, etc etc,..please stay tuned. I hope you'll look at my feedback and conclude that everything I sell is exactly as advertised and conservatively graded. Thanks! Good Luck!

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