Scott Engel ?/ Walker– Scott 4 Vinyl UK original 1969

	£		26
	$		34

Selling-up my extensive record collection. Lots of interesting records in the collection - do have a look at my other items, and there are new listings every week. I may have obscure things that you didn't even know you wanted!
Here is an original UK first-issue of Scott 4. This has condition issues - excellent copies of this are expensive, this one far less so!
Pictures are my own photos of the items for sale. Photos are part of the description, have a good look. I have done extra photos of the labels, and of some damage on the cover - described below, but better conveyed by a picture.
Cover - is gatefold, not laminated. The black is basically still black - it looks like the first picture. On the outside, there is a lot of wear to the surface, the black ink being worn-away in places - lots of places. There's a piece of surface missing - between the top of his hair and the little sticker - which has been filled-in with black pen, and this area has little crinkles around it - pictured. Front has  line of wear near top and bottom edges, where the edges of the internal flip-backs are. Price sticker as mentioned, and the Phillips logo not all clear white. Ring-wear on the back, and some little bits of surface missing at the top (again, see my photos). My 6th and 7th photos show the top part of the two panels of inside the gatefold - this top part has gotten stuck-together at some time and been pulled-apart, the surface of one side being pulled-off and remaining stuck to the other side. The rest of the inside of the gatefold is very good. Last photo is a close-up on part of the back cover, showing some of the general wear to the surface. There is wear around the edges.  Looking on the bright side, it's generally intact - not split, torn or written-on. It's fairly flat - whatever caused the top of the inside to stick together, didn't get the whole cover wet - when a cover gets wet it generally gets rippled, goes wavy, which is not seen here.
Record - side one has a long heavy fingernail impression or stylus scratch on track one, and another short fingernail mark / impact on same track. On track 3, there are four small, heavy impacts, and on track 4, a little group of tiny impacts. There are other light scratches and marks. Side two - there's a bunch of marks at the start of track 1, and a couple of large impacts / scrapes across tracks 1 and 2. Quite a lot of other light scratches. If I can make myself do it - I don't particularly love his work - I'll play-test some of this, and add a note later about how it plays - records from the sixties often play much better than they look. Later - I had a listen to side one, quite loud on my posh hi-fi. As stated, there's a fair amount of damage on this record. However, no skips or catches, and no horribly loud clicks. On most damaged records, the worst is at the start of the side - track 1 has crackling in the quiet start of the song - reducing to some background crackling - not constant, but quite often - and some once-per-rotation clicks - not terribly loud - towards the end. The experience improves as the side goes on. There may be moments of crackling, or clicks, at any time, but there are trouble-free spells. The record is not worn-out or scratched-to-death, the vocal and orchestration / instruments still sound right, come across nicely. So, if you're very averse to crackling, don't get involved, but if you can stand some crackles and clicks in with the music, it's a rewarding listen.  
When I'm checking for damage on records, I look at them carefully with my reading glasses on, in good daylight. This method detects any bits of damage that will affect what you hear when listening to it - and lots that are not audible. Using a spotlight or direct sunlight shows more surfacey marks sometimes, but I don't do that - records are for listening to, not trying to see your face in.
Postage at cost within UK - £3.00 plus 50p for a proper record mailer with two stiffener sheets of cardboard (or whatever's appropriate). Happy to do combined postage wherever practical. I'll charge you what it costs me - so anything up to six (or so) LPs would still be the same charge, £3.50. I'm happy to send this overseas. See below for details, if bidding from outside UK - YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS STUFF.
Dispatch will usually be "next day".
Collection in person is welcome.
I don't mail things personally, to countries outside the UK - ( I mean it, don't ask) - but I am happy to use E-Bay UK's Global Shipping Program, for sending things abroad. Under this scheme, I send the parcel to an e-bay depot in UK, and they forward it to the overseas buyer.
They have a tracked courier service, for the journey from their UK depot, to the buyer.
This means that I can ONLY accept payments through e-bay (Pay Now button), and I can't send invoices. 
E-Bay UK tells me, they do NOT do combined postage in the Global Shipping Programme. Charges to the customer for delivery and customs charges are whatever you're told they are - if you don't want to pay the postal / courier charges individually for the items, then do not bid. HOWEVER, if you win several items, and pay for them all in the same payment, their system may well spot this and do combined postage. If this happens, pay what you're told, and I will refund the excess postage paid to me - if you buy three LPs, I would be getting three lots of £3.50, but I can send all in one parcel, so I only need one lot of £3.50, usually. The exception is, if the items you buy weigh more than 2 kilos altogether, I need to make two parcels - there is a special cheap postage rate in UK, for parcels under 2 kilos. Overseas customers - please DON'T request an invoice - I can't make one, and it screws-up the e-bay system.
International buyers should be able to see a postage cost to their country, you may have to input your location, if your country is included in the scheme.
If your country is not mentioned, please do not bid.
International postage to the following countries will be shown (this is the latest list that I've seen - lotta countries!)
Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands New Zealand Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand Turkey Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden, United States, Antigua & Barbuda Aruba Bangladesh Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Cayman Islands Dominica Ecuador Egypt French Guiana Gibraltar Grenada Guadeloupe Guernsey Iceland Jersey Jordan Liechtenstein Macau Maldives Martinique Monaco Montserrat Nicaragua Oman Pakistan Paraguay Peru Reunion Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia Sri Lanka and Turks & Caicos Islands
Applicable customs charges will probably be shown to buyers in non-EU countries - E-Bay collects customs duty for the receiving country, wherever import duty is appropriate. If you don't want to pay the customs charges, do not bid.
I don't send to China (because I prefer not to), and I also don't send to Japan, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, as importation of vinyl records is not permitted in their customs regulations.