KING CRIMSON 1st LP 1969 ISLAND 3/3 LARGE RAREST EVER

	£		90
	$		119

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by King Crimson called "In The Court Of The Crimson King" and is an ORIGINAL 1969 UK Pressing on the ULTRA RARE 'FULLY TEXTURED' Island label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS WAS KING CRIMSON'S FIRST & RAREST LP EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  IT IS WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER PROGRESSIVE LPs OF ALL TIME AND IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  IT IS ALSO IN BRILLIANT CONDITION OVERALL - AND PLAYS SUPERBLY!!!!

BUT THIS ONE IS QUITE LITERALLY THE RAREST PRESSING EVER MADE - AND THE ONLY ONE HAVE EVER SEEN LIKE THIS!!!!  I WILL EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHY THIS LP IS SO AMAZINGLY RARE!!!!  MOST PEOPLE (AS I ALSO WAS) WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION - THAT THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP HAS PINK 'i' ISLAND LABELS, 'TEXTURED' LABELS, 2/2 MATRIXES, 'DOUBLE THICKNESS' VINYL, AND AN 'E.J.DAY' COVER (LATER ONES ARE MADE BY 'ROBOR' INSTEAD).  AND EVEN AFTER THAT PRESSING (ALSO ON THE PINK 'i' ISLAND LABELS) CAME THE 'SMOOTH' PINK LABELS - WITH 2/3 MATRIXES, 3/3 MATRIXES, AND 2/4 MATRIXES!!!!  BUT THIS LP THROWS UP A MAJOR PARADOX!!!!  FOR THIS LP IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO EVERY OTHER PRESSING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!  FOR A START IT HAS 3/3 MATRIXES WHICH SHOULD NOT EVEN EXIST ON THIS LABEL AT ALL!!!!  AND EVEN THE '3/3' MATRIXES USED ON THE PINK 'i' 1ST PRESSINGS WERE IN 'SMALL MATRIX TEXT' - AND YET THIS LP HAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SET OF '3/3' MATRIXES IN THE OLD 'LARGE MATRIX TEXT' ISLAND STYLE - WHICH ISLAND HAD DISCONTINUED ALMOST 1 YEAR BEFORE THESE LABELS WERE SUPPOSEDLY TO HAVE EVEN BEEN MADE!!!!  AS YOU CAN SEE FROM MY PICTURES - THE ISLAND MATRIXES ON THIS LP ARE 'ILPS + 9111 + A3' & 'ILPS + 9111 + B3' - WHICH WAS THE MATRIX STYLE USED ON 1968 ISLAND LPS - SUCH AS JETHRO TULL 'THIS WAS' FOR EXAMPLE!!!!  AND SECONDLY - THE COVER IS ALSO COMPLETELY BLANK WITH NO 'MANUFACTURERS CREDITS' AT ALL!!!!  NOW ON 99% OF 1ST PRESS COVERS - 'E.J.DAY' IS PRINTED IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER ON THE INSIDE LEFT HAND GATEFOLD.  AND EVEN ON LATER COVERS, WHICH WERE MADE BY 'ROBOR' YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE WHERE THE 'E.J.DAY' CREDIT HAS BEEN 'BLANKED OUT'.  YET ON THIS COVER - IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO 'MANUFACTUERS CREDIT' AT ALL, AND NO 'BLANKING OUT' AREA EITHER!!!!  AND THIS MUST THROW EVERY SINGLE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT PRESSING ORDER (USING THESE LABELS!) INTO DISREPUTE!!!!  AND IT RAISES MULTIPLE QUESTIONS - WHICH PROBABLY CANNOT BE ANSWERED AFTER 41 YEARS?

WAS THIS LP SIMPLY RE-USING OLD MATRIXES?  NO - THIS ISNT POSSIBLE (OR PROBABLE!), AS THE 2/4 MATRIXES WERE STILL IN USE RIGHT THROUGH TO THE END OF THIS LPs PINK ISLAND RUN, AND LOGICALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOST AVAILABLE MATRIXES AND EASIEST TO USE!  POSSIBLY - AS THESE MATRIXES (WITH 'LARGE' TEXT!) WHERE A REJECTED MIX MADE EVEN BEFORE THE 2/2 'SMALL TEXT' MATRIXES - BECAUSE IN THIS 'LARGE TEXT' AND 'OLD STYLE' MATRIXES - THEY CERTAINLY 'PRE-DATE' ALL THE 'SMALL TEXT' MATRIXES (EVEN THE A/1 B/1s!)!!!!  AND IF THATS THE CASE - THEN THIS IS THE RAREST & 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - EVEN IF IT WAS USED ON THESE LABELS!!!!  AND THEY CANT HAVE BEEN LATER THAN THE 'SMALL TEXT' 2/2 3/3 2/4 MATRIXES - AS THESE 'LARGE TEXT' MATRIXES HAD LONG SINCE BEEN DISCONTINUED!!!! 

BUT HERE IS THE PARADOX - AND I BELIEVE I HAVE THE ANSWER AS TO WHERE THIS LP SITS IN THE PRESSING ORDER!!!!  I AM CERTAIN THAT THIS IS INDEED STILL ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE AND PRESSED AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME AS THE PINK ISLAND LABELS!!!!  AND I WILL EXPLAIN WHY!!!!  I BELIEVE MATRIXES CANNOT LIE - AND THE IDEA THAT THEY WERE 'RE-USED' (GOING BACK 3 SETS OF 'SMALL MATRIXES' TO GET THIS ONE!) IS IMPROBABLE IN THE EXTREME - ESPECIALLY WHEN ISLAND HAD PRESSED TENS OF THOUSANDS USING THE MOST COMMON 2/4 MATRIX ENDINGS!!!!  SO I FIRMLY BELIEVE THIS WAS A 'TRIAL RUN' USING THE NEW (AT THE TIME) ISLAND LABEL!!!!  EVERY DETAIL POINTS TO THIS FACT - THE 'DOUBLE THICKNESS' VINYL, THE ULTRA RARE 'BLANK' COVER (DISCONTINUED ON LATER PRESSINGS), THE ULTRA RARE 3/3 'LARGE TEXT' MATRIXES, AND THE 'TEXTURED' LABELS!!!!  AND WHATEVER CONCLUSION YOU COME TO - CERTAINLY ONLY A FEW HUNDRED COPIES (WITH 'LARGE TEXT' 3/3 MATRIXES!) WERE EVER PRESSED WITH THIS LABEL - AND IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE RAREST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN BRILLIANT CONDITION OVERALL (WITH A BRILLIANT RECORD & A VERY PRESENTABLE COVER!) - AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1969 UK PRESSING ON ULTRA RARE 'FULLY TEXTURED' ISLAND LABEL, ULTRA RARE 'LARGE TEXT' 1ST PRESS 3/3 MATRIX ENDINGS, 1ST PRESS 'DOUBLE THICKNESS' VINYL, 1ST PRESS INNER SLEEVE, AND ULTRA RARE 1ST PRESS 'BLANK' GATEFOLD COVER!!!!  INCIDENTALLY THE COVER IS ALSO 'MISPRINTED' ON THE INSIDE (WHICH ALSO POINTS TO A 'TRIAL RUN'!) - WHERE THE TEXT IS OFF THE COVER TO THE LEFT - AND THE RIGHT HAS A THICK BLACK LINE WHERE THE PICTURE HAS ENDED (CLEARLY A MASSIVE 'OFF-SET' PRINTING ERROR!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Island UK Pressing from 1969 and is in BRILLIANT condition overall!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl.  The Cat. No is ILPS 9111 on the ORIGINAL Island label (see picture) and is a UK Stereo 1st Pressing (there were NO Monos!)!!!!

The record labels are in AWESOME condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, 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 and plays SUPERBLY!!!!  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 scratches, only 2 or 3 MEGA light hairlines, only 2 or 3 ULTRA light scufflines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  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 with NO pops, NO sticking, NO jumps, and barely ANY crackle AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good++ if not better and plays SUPERBLY!!!!  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 comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!   The ULTRA RARE 1st Press 'BLANK CREDIT' Misprinted Gatefold Cover is in GREAT condition!!!! It has only slight edge wear (NO splits!), only slight spinal wear (again NO splits!), only slight corner wear, barely ANY rubbing AT ALL to the cover front (virtually NONE!), only very VERY slight rubbing to the cover back, only a VERY few light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), NO sticker tears, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edges are beautifully straight with NO feathering!!!!  Even the inside of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, barely ANY rubbing, NO yellowing, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good(Minus) (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I DO MY BEST TO SHOW THE RECORD FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE THE PICTURES AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE - THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE!!!!  It really is a GREAT looking LP and it is truly rare to find any copies of this MEGA RARE LP!!!!  THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO BUY AN ORIGINAL 1969 UK PRESSING OF "IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING" BY KING CRIMSON, IN BRILLIANT CONDITION!!!!    Dont forget to take a look at all my other items including many other TOP LPs and contact me with any queries you may have. P&P £3 in the UK, £4 Europe, £6 Rest Of The World (Postal discounts are available - see below for details).  Paypal, Bank Transfers, Cheques, International Money Orders, and Postal Orders accepted. Thanks for looking! Cheers!!!!!

On 24-Nov-02 at 12:19:15 GMT, seller added the following information: