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

  WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE ONE OF THESE ?? NOT ONLY AN IMPOSSIBLE WAY ABOVE THE AVERAGE COPY OF THE MEGA RARE ORIGINAL UK " BEST OF ELVIS " 10 INCH LP ON HMV WITH FULLY LAMINATED HALF MOON SLEEVE BUT ALSO WITH 1G1G MOTHER STAMPERS MAKING THIS COPY ONE OF ONLY 300 OF SO COPIES MADE FROM THE FIRST LAQUERS EVER MADE FOR EACH SIDE !!

ALL ELVIS LP'S ON HMV ARE INCREDIBLY RARE. THE OWNERS OF THE " NIPPER " HIS MASTERS VOICE LOGO WERE EMI IN THE UK AND THE RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA ( RCA ) IN THE U.S. HOWEVER IN 1957 RCA STRUCK A DEAL WITH DECCA IN THE U.K. TO SET UP THEIR OWN LABEL HERE AND SO ALL THE U.S.A. HIS MASTER'S VOICE 'S ARTISTS TRANSFERRED TO UK RCA/DECCA AND ALL OF ELIVS'S PREVIOUS UK EMI/HMV RECORDINGS WERE DELETED AND SOME EVEN RE-ISSUED ON THE NEW DECCA RCA VICTOR LABEL. THAT IS WHY THESE HMV DISCS ARE SO RARELY SEEN AND THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE RAREST...WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE IT ??  

FOR ELVIS COLLECTORS THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY RARE RECORD I

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For Auction here is the UK LP ''  THE BEST OF ELVIS " 

ARTIST:  ELVIS PRESLEY

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : DLP 1159

LABEL:  HMV

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1957

MATRICIES:  -1  -1

MOTHER/STAMPERS : 1G 1G

VINYL WEIGHT: 150 g

TRACK LISTING

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  THESE FLIMSY HALF MOON FULLY LAMINATED PRE-58 STYLE SLEEVES ARE SO FLIMSY AND HARDLY ANY SURVIVE IN DECENT CONDITION. THIS COPY IS WAY ABOVE AVERAGE, A COUPLE OF NICKS AND FETHERING ON EACH SIDE  AND WARE TO SOME OF THE SPINE TEXT BUT THIS STILL GRADES VG WHICH IS LIKE EX FOR ONE OF THESE !!

VINYL VISUAL : SUPERB LOOKING SLAB OF HEAVY VINYL, THE ODD LIGHT HAIRLINE ONLY UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LIGHT, STILL RETAINS ALL ITS FIRST PRESSED SHEEN WITH SOME SCUFFING ON SIDE TWO, GRADED VISUALLY AS VG/VG+ THIS IS CERTAINLY NO TRASHED COPY !

LABELS: NO WRITINGS OR LABELS, BARELY EVEN ANY SPINDLE TRACES SO GRADES EXCELLENT 

VERY RARE AND IMPOSSIBLY COLLECTABLE  GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

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 IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE NOT TO BID ! 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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