The Beatles Let it Be Boxset Apple 1970 VG+ Rare 1st Ed with Booklet and Poster

$

350

Vinyl:  VG+ Play Tested. Sounds Great!  Apple Labels are Clean!  Needs No Introduction to Beatlemaniacs: The Best Documented Album of their career!  The Soundtrack To The Film! The Last Beatles Album to be released while they were a Band!  Contains most of their last Public Performance on the Rooftop of their Apple Headquarters, from January 30, 1969!  This is the Extremely Rare Original 1970 Boxset Release!
Cover: EX+ (see photos; minimal ring wear to inner cover VG+)  The Booklet is VG++ Extremely Rare 160 page Booklet.
Originally available only from May, 1970 till December, 1970, when the boxset was discontinued. 
The vast majority of the booklet pages are NM-.  There are no loose pages.   There are a couple creases in the cover, again, see photos.  The rarity of this item and the pleasing way it gives you a worm's eye view of the band,  is downright intoxicating!  Read it as you listen to Let It Be, and it transports you...Pages are mostly Color.  Photos are from all throughout the making of The Beatles Let It Be album, as well as photos from The Beatles last public performance, on the top of their Apple Headquarters in London, on January 30, 1969. 
Text written by Jonathan Cott & David Dalton; Photos by Ethan Russell.
Interestingly, this is one of the few releases by the subsidiary of the Beatles' Apple Corps:  Apple Books...The front cover has a small tear.  In the same place, on the bottom margin, there is a teeny tiny tear to the first 19 pages.  Please see photos.  The largest are nearer to the front cover, but they're only a few millimeters at most.  The further tears are visible only with a magnifying glass! I know, I'm being super nit picky but that way, there's no surprises.  (These tiny tears don't detract from the book experience at all...again, see photos.  I can email you more photos if you wish.)  The tray has wear, VG.  The poster is NM-.
This Rare Release was released in many different Countries, but most of them had LP's that were manufactured in The U.K. as this one is.  The Booklets were all made in The U.K., as this one is.  The main Slip Cover (one of the nicest I've ever seen, by the way) was made in Japan in 1970 (see photo #2) but it's the same in feel and look to the ones made and released, say, in the U.K. and Canada.  The only difference is some additional Japanese script alongside the credits for John Kosh and Ethan Russell on the back and bottom of the Slip Cover.
Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album. 
See Review Below!

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AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger  [-]

The only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews, there are few other rock records as controversial as Let It Be. First off, several facts need to be explained: although released in May 1970, this was not their final album, but largely recorded in early 1969, way before Abbey Road. Phil Spector was enlisted in early 1970 to do some post-production work, but did not work with the band as a unit, as George Martin and Glyn Johns had on the sessions themselves; Spector's work was limited to mixing and some overdubs. And, although his use of strings has generated much criticism, by and large he left the original performances to stand as is: only "The Long and Winding Road" and (to a lesser degree) "Across the Universe" and "I Me Mine" get the wall-of-sound layers of strings and female choruses. Although most of the album, then, has a live-in-the-studio feel, the main problem was that the material wasn't uniformly strong, and that the Beatles themselves were in fairly lousy moods due to inter-group tension. All that said, the album is on the whole underrated, even discounting the fact that a sub-standard Beatles record is better than almost any other group's best work. McCartney in particular offers several gems: the gospelish "Let It Be," which has some of his best lyrics; "Get Back," one of his hardest rockers; and the melodic "The Long and Winding Road," ruined by Spector's heavy-handed overdubs (the superior string-less, choir-less version was finally released on Anthology Vol. 3). The folky "Two of Us," with John and Paul harmonizing together, was also a highlight. Most of the rest of the material, by contrast, was going through the motions to some degree, although there are some good moments of straight hard rock in "I've Got a Feeling" and "Dig a Pony." As flawed and bumpy as it is, it's an album well worth having, as when the Beatles were in top form here, they were as good as ever.

In the UK and Canada, the album was originally issued by Apple (and distributed by EMI) in a lavish box that also included a book featuring stills from the Let It Be film. Several months later, the album was reissued in a standard LP jacket (the same one that was included in the box set), sans book.