PRETTY THINGS S.F. Sorrow LP 1969 COLUMBIA 1/1 RAREST PRESSING EVER

	£		100
	$		133

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AUCTION WILL END LATE SATURDAY 4TH FEBRUARY (INTO EARLY MORNING SUNDAY 5TH UK TIME) - AS THIS WEEK I AM DOING BOTH SATURDAY & SUNDAY AUCTIONS WITH SOME AMAZING ITEMS ENDING ON BOTH DAYS!!!!!  SO PLEASE READ ON ABOUT THIS AMAZING ITEM BELOW - AND GOOD LUCK IF YOU DECIDE TO BID:-

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Pretty Things called "S.F.Sorrow" and is a 1969 UK Pressing on the RAREST EVER UK Columbia label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS EASILY THE PRETTY THINGS RAREST & MOST SOUGHT AFTER LP EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1968 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED - IT ONLY EVER SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS, AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED!!!!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL - IS THAT IT IS THE ALL TIME RAREST PRESSING EVER MADE!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  1968 1ST PRESSINGS ON THE 'BLUE/BLACK' COLUMBIA LABEL TURN UP FAIRLY REGULARLY (AND SOLD A GOOD FEW THOUSAND COPIES!), AND LATER PRESSINGS (FROM 1970/71) ON THE 'TWO BOX' EMI COLUMBIA LABEL & 'ONE BOX' EMI COLUMBIA WITH NO 'SOLD IN THE UK' TEXT ARE VERY VERY COMMON INDEED!!!!  HOWEVER, THIS IS THE ALL TIME RAREST UK PRESSING EVER MADE (STILL WITH 1ST PRESS 1/1 MATRIX ENDINGS!) - WITH ONLY A FEW HUNDRED COPIES EVER BEING MADE IN MID 1969 ONLY (SHOWN BY THE ULTRA RARE 'SOLD IN THE UK' TEXT ON THE LABELS - WHICH ONLY EVER LASTED A FEW WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS REMOVED!)!!!!

AND THIS LP IS MADE EVEN RARER STILL - AS IT IS PRESSED WITH THE FAR BETTER STEREO 1ST PRESS MIX!!!!  AND DESPITE MANY PEOPLE 'RAVING' ABOUT THE MONO 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP, THIS IS DEFINITELY ONE LATE 1960s LP WHERE THE STEREO 1ST PRESS MIX IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN THE MONO VERSION!!!!  HAVING SPOKEN TO A BAND MEMBER MYSELF - I ALSO KNOW THE MAIN INPUT WAS PUT INTO THE STEREO MIX OF THIS LP (WHICH IS WHY IT SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE MONO VERSION!) WHEREAS THE MONO WAS SIMPLY CONTRACTED OUT FOR PRESSING TO ISLAND (WHICH IS WHY MONOs HAVE 'TEXTURED' LABELS!) WHEREAS ONLY STEREOs WERE EVER PRESSED BY EMI/COLUMBIA THEMSELVES DIRECTLY FROM THE MASTERS!!!!  AND THIS 'MID 1969' RAREST EVER PRESSING, STILL HAS THE 1ST PRESS MIX (WITH 1ST PRESS 1/1 MATRIX ENDINGS!) - AND IS EVEN RARER THAN THE MONO 1ST PRESSINGS ANYWAY!!!!  AND WITH THE ULTRA RARE 'SOLD IN THE UK' TEXT ON THE LABELS - THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ALL TIME RAREST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE, AS ONLY A FEW HUNDRED COPIES WERE EVER PRESSED!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN GREAT CONDITION!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1969 UK STEREO 'RAREST EVER' PRESSING ON THE 'SILVER/BLACK' COLUMBIA LABEL, STILL WITH 1ST PRESS 1/1 STEREO MATRIX ENDINGS, RAREST EVER 'SOLD IN THE UK' LABEL TEXT, ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE, AND 'E.J.DAY' GATEFOLD LAMINATED COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Columbia UK Pressing from 1969 and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl.  The Cat. No is SCX 6306 on the ORIGINAL Columbia label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK Stereo Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear (apart from a TINY 'touched in' trace around 1 centre hole!), NO writing, and only a few VERY light spindle marks!!!!  The vinyl is in GREAT condition!!!!  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 nasty concentric marks AT ALL, only 2 long (but NON sounding!) scufflines, only 2 or 3 light hairlines, 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 skips, only a few VERY light clicks (though mostly NONE!), NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some slight background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - and is still a very VERY decent record indeed!!!!  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 inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 'E.J.Day' Gatefold Laminated Stereo Cover is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO splits, only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), NO rips, NO tears, shiny laminate, only some very VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to the corners, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edges are beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated inside of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, NO ringwear, barely ANY rubbing AT ALL, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE (ESPECIALLY AS THE ALL TIME RAREST PRESSING EVER MADE!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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