The Beatles - White Album - No.0002146 - UK 1968 1st MONO Press DLP EXCELLENT

	£		1,220
	$		1,617

THE BEATLES - 'WHITE ALBUM'
This genuinely low-numbered UK 1st MONO pressing double album dates from November 1968 release on Apple Records: PMC 7067/8

All labels OMIT the 'An EMI Recording' text.

Disc 1

Matrix numbers: XEX 709-1 & YEX 710-1

Stamper codes: 33,3/LH & 7/LD

Disc weight: 144g

Disc 2

Matrix numbers: XEX 711-1 & XEX 712-1

Stamper codes: 1/GH & 1/GL

Disc weight: 154g

Housed in a fully laminated, tri-flipback 'Garrod & Lofthouse' printed, top-loading cover.

Uniquely numbered: No.0002146

100% complete with: original black inner-sleeves, poster, 4 colour portrait photos & protector sheet.

CONDITION

Discs

All Labels: EXCELLENT +

All are clean & unblemished with a small collection of light spindle trails around each centre hole, slightly more on disc 2 than on 1.

Visual: Disc 1: EXCELLENT + Disc 1: EXCELLENT

Both discs have clearly been well-looked and carefully handled. All playing surfaces are clean & glossy with just a handful of light surface lines on side 3 preventing a higher grade for that disc. Disc 1 bears a couple of light turntable marks but no other significant blemishes.

Sound Quality - both: EXCELLENT

This set has been played with care on good equipment and both discs are without any significant deterioration to the sound quality. Aside from the regulation low-level background in some quieter passages (present on all mono copies), there is little else to fault and I could easily justify an 'EX+' grading. There are no clicks, pops, jumps or any other such audible distractions on any side.

Cover: EXCELLENT -

This true low-numbered example is clean & fully intact, albeit with some gentle age-toning which is more pronounced around the spine and upper edge areas. The front panel has a handful of small indentations from storage towards the lower edge, but the all important number is clean & bold. Both front & rear panels are free from any 'thumbnail' wrinkles or creasing and all of the top-opening edges are clean with just a single tiny 'push' to the front edge of the front pocket. The only other blemish is a small nick to the upper left corner of the rear pocket.

Inside, there are two 'thumbnail' wrinkles on the left panel, a small stain at the bottom of the hinge.

There is a disc impression mark beneath the portraits on the right panel.

The spine has lost its laminate but both sets of wording are readable and the seams of both pockets are smooth & undamaged.

Poster: EXCELLENT +

Unhung with a light handling wear only.

Photos: MINT

Photo-protector sheet: EXCELLENT +

Inner-sleeves: EXCELLENT +

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