Steppenwolf 'Steppenwolf' rare 1968 1st Press vinyl LP VG++/VG+++
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Description
This is the rare first US pressing of Steppenwolf’s 1968 first vinyl album, ‘Steppenwolf’, on Dunhill, catalogue number DS-50029, matrix numbers 50029A/B. This is one of the first issued, bought within days of the album’s release, and never had the ‘Born to be wild’ label or overprint that was added to later first pressing covers. It also has the first and original Dunhill label with the name ‘Dunhill’ outlined in yellow (see the record label photographs). It has the original Dunhill paper inner sleeve, though it has always been kept in a vinyl-lined inner.
The cover is Very Good ++, with very light ring wear, no splits, tears or creases (see enlarged photographs). There is a name on the rear cover.
The record is Very Good +++ with no visible marks and plays well.
For track listings, see enlarged record label photos.
I am not a record dealer. Over the next few weeks I am selling off my collection of some two hundred albums, mainly from the 1960s and 1970s (see my other items). These have been stored with care and unplayed over the past twenty years. Before this most were played only on a Linn LP12 deck and carefully handled. None of them are mint (it was a working record collection) but most are in extremely good condition. Many were bought as the albums were released and so are first pressings. I have tried to use the guide to condition in Record Collector as a guide to my descriptions of condition and am also providing other information such as matrix numbers wherever possible. I am also posting a number of photos of each album. If anyone buys an album and feels it has not been accurately described, I will happily refund as long as the record is returned to me promptly in the condition that it left here.
I will post albums out, signed for whenever possible, in the appropriate size of high end record mailer, as supplied by Covers 33 within two working days of receiving cleared funds via Paypal. Anything over £40 will go out Special Delivery in the UK or International Signed For abroad.
Unfortunately I can’t get my postage costs as low as some of the other people who are selling on here as I live in a remote rural area and it’s a twenty mile round trip to the Post Office, but I can combine postage for records bought within a ten day period. Any combined postage outside the UK will be done as International Signed For. Contact me via eBay messages for full details.
Happy bidding!
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