A  KIND NOTE FOR UK BIDDERS. I WILL SOON BE LOSING MY TOP SELLER STATUS THANKS TO THREE BUYERS IN 12 MONTHS WHO FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON GAVE ME LESS THAN 3 STARS FOR POSTAGE AND PACKING. I SEND MANY ITEMS OUT FOR FREE AND OTHERS AT COST BUT BECAUSE I HAVE TO SEND SIGNED FOR MAIL TO PROTECT MYSELF AGAINST FRAUDSTERS SOME MAY FEEL THIS COST EXCESSIVE. 

I WOULD THEREFORE ASK ANYBODY WHO MISTAKENLY FEELS THIS WAY TO FIRST CHECK THEIR PARCEL AND SEE THE EXACT COST OF THE PACKAGE PRIOR TO LEAVING ANY FEEDBACK. SHOULD THEY THEN STILL FEEL I HAVE OVERCHARGED THEM PLEASE CONTACT ME AND I WILL REFUND THEM IMMEDIATELY . FOR GENERAL INFO WHEN THE COST OF PACKAGING IS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT OVERALL I LOSE MONEY ON THE POST AND PACKING AS I AM SURE MANY OTHER SELLERS DO ALSO. THANK YOU.

NOT ONLY AN INCREDIBLY RARE 1H 1L STAMPED EXAMPLE OF JOHN AND YOKO'S 1968 RELEASE ( OF WHICH I UNDERSTAND ONLY SOLD AN ESTIMATED 5000 COPIES BUT ALSO AN IMPOSSIBLY RARER " MONO " SLEEVED VARIAITION WITH THE CREDITS ON THE FRONT RATHER THAN ON THE BACK ( SEE EXAMPLE PICS )

                                                       MONO SLEEVE  ( THIS COPY)                       STEREO SLEEVE

L@@K

I WAS FIRST AWARE OF THIS LP WHEN I SAW THE PICTURES WITH " CENSORED " BARS ACROSS THE NAUGHTY BITS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE DAILY EXPRESS SOMETIME IN 1968 ( AND IF ANYBODY HAS A LINK AS TO WHERE I COULD FIND A COPY OF THAT FRONT PAGE I WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATIVE )  

ALTHOUGH EMI PRESSED THE VINYL THEY REFUSED TO DISTRIBUTE IT BECAUSE OF THE SLEEVE, SO A DEAL WAS DONE WITH KIT LAMBERT & CHRIS STAMP AT TRACK HENCE THE DUAL APPLE/TRACK CAT NUMBER. 

IN THE USA THIS WAS SOLD IN A BROWN BAG BUT I DO NOT THINK THIS WAS THE CASE IN THE U.K. WHERE THIS LP IS ALSO MUCH RARER

HOWEVER OF THE " 5000 " PRESSED, MOST LIKE THIS COPY WERE STEREO AND ONLY QUITE LITERALLY WERE A HANDFULL EVER PRESSED IN MONO SO MONO COPIES OF THIS LP ARE ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER LP'S EVER. HOWEVER SOME OF THE MONO SLEEVES WITH THE TEXT ON THE FRONT WERE USED FOR SOME STEREO COPIES. WHY THESE ARE CALLED MONO SLEEVES I HAVE NO IDEA, ALL I DO KNOW IS THAT THEY ARE INCREDIBLY RARER AND HARDLY EVER SEEN IN ANY CONDITION....

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  TWO VIRGINS " 

ARTIST:  JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

Cat. No : 613012 / SAPCOR 2

LABEL:  APPLE  / TRACK

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1968

MATRICIES:  - 1 -1

MOTHER/STAMPERS : 1H 1L

VINYL WEIGHT: 140g

TRACK LISTING ( SEE LABELS )

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  USUAL WARE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FLIMSY TECHNICK PRINTED SLEEVES, CREASING AND EDGE FEATHERING THIS ONE IS STILL BETTER THAN MANY AND IS OF COURSE MUCH MUCH RARER WITH THE CREDITS ON THE FRONT, GRADES G+/VG-

VINYL VISUAL:  STILL RETAINS ALL IT'S FIRST PRESSED SHEEN, THE ODD LIGHT HAIRLINE GRADES EX- 

LABELS: NO WRITINGS OR LABELS, EVIDENCE OF PLAY ( GOD KNOWS WHY LOL ) GRADE EX-

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you.

DOMESTIC UK DISPATCH WILL BE VIA RECORDED/SIGNED FOR DELIVERY  TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW 

 (Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO BE READ,

COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL HAS RECENTLY BEEN INCREASED BY THE UK POST OFFICE SO TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS NOW USUALLY GBP 9.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50... ANY ADDITIONAL LP'S SENT VIA COMBINED POSTAGE WILL USALLY BE AROUND AN ADDITION G 2.00 PER LP

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typo : this is definately a stereo pressing not mono